Example sentences of "[is] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's a jolly nice present . |
| 2 | It does n't prove that it 's always true , but it 's a jolly good case where it clearly , I think , is true . |
| 3 | Now , that in a sense , would have fitted much much better into the Playhouse , and had we been open at that stage , there 's a jolly good chance that that show would have actually come to us rather than going there . |
| 4 | I mean it 's a jolly good idea it really is |
| 5 | That 's a jolly good idea . |
| 6 | Equals something that 's incredibly expensive and it 's a jolly good idea for other people . |
| 7 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 8 | I think that 's a jolly good idea . |
| 9 | There were queues for the meeting , many could not get in , war-songs of the Liberal party were sung , they greeted the speaker with ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ . |
| 10 | The evening terminated with the members singing ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ to Micky Watson in appreciation of the considerable work he had done for the Club . |
| 11 | It was the match against Gillingham ( 4–1 ) on 5 March — 12,000 fans turned up , the band played ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ and Ted kicked off for us , even though a persistent injury prevented him from playing after New Year 's Day . |
| 12 | For the dessert the waiters fetched in a beautiful cake aglow with candles and everybody sang , ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ . |
| 13 | FOR SHE 'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW |
| 14 | ‘ That 's a jolly long walk , if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ Harvey remarked and smiled in a twisted way . |
| 15 | yo you 're suggesting is what is happening now and so many of us he no he not just here but in population generally belong to all sorts of pressure groups erm whatever they may be like Greenpeace and many others erm really it 's , it 's a jolly hard slog , the point is that erm it the lid is on the kettle the whole time and it 's only , the only way that people can get anything done is by joining these organizations erm but it 's a very slow business erm but there 's no other way of doing anything because you ca n't change what happens at the top . |
| 16 | As this is n't actually a direct film licence I wo n't dwell on it for too long ; just long enough to warn you that it 's a particularly poor platform product , with the only good feature being that the Amiga version was a lot worse . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's a particularly nasty thing to say , but maybe I should have expected it of you . ’ |
| 18 | And that 's a particularly praiseworthy feat when you consider the set of parts the Limited boasts . |
| 19 | Nothing : that 's a particularly poignant kind of pain . |
| 20 | So it 's a particularly wonderful thing for us . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to laugh at myself because that 's a particularly difficult song to pull off . |
| 22 | It 's a blummin beautiful colour — all sort of black with bits of brown in it , and sometimes , in the sun , it looks sort of blue . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's a curiously authoritative figure , ’ says Tom Nairn , the political philosopher who has been pondering the various strains of British nationalism for years . |
| 24 | It 's a tremendously stable shoe with good , firm cushioning designed for a heel striker . |
| 25 | Fortunately , it 's a tremendously generous jug , enabling a secure launch to be made over the bulge into the easier crack above . |
| 26 | I can imagine the Prime Minister responding to every new idea in Cabinet with the comment , ’ That 's a most agreeable suggestion . |
| 27 | It 's a most impressive volume concerned with topics that are seldom dealt with in detail outside research papers and monographs . |
| 28 | I discovered at the interview that he 's a most amazing snob . |
| 29 | it 's a a horn then bassoon solo , and it it 's a most worrying opening for er a because it is |
| 30 | With top-notch graphics , humorous sound effects and catchy ditties , it 's a most addictive game . |