Example sentences of "a [adj] letter " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed the family had the same feeling because a week later I had a pleasant letter from the mother . |
| 2 | Nobody wants a florid letter from someone they have never seen before but as an actor your style and personality must come through sufficiently — a bare list of parts played wo n't convey much . |
| 3 | Write him a friendly letter , saying you often think of him and wonder how he is . |
| 4 | Would n't the right thing be to write to London Transport withdrawing the complaint , and send a friendly letter to the conductor himself explaining the meaning of ‘ Ms ’ and asking his tolerance for opinions differing from his own ? |
| 5 | Just a friendly letter between cousins … |
| 6 | Some of these connectives would seem stilted and inappropriately formal in conversation or personal writing such as a friendly letter , but they occur frequently in formal expository writing . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just a friendly letter , asking how you are . |
| 8 | ‘ Here is a polite letter from the Duke of Atholl , ’ he said loudly , waving the paper . |
| 9 | After a while , Sky sent back a polite letter of rejection . |
| 10 | If this fails , try another means of communication — a polite letter or fax — and then phone . |
| 11 | Write a polite letter to your new MP at the House of Commons , London SWA OAA . |
| 12 | I have now received a polite letter from B.T. together with a phone card worth 30p . |
| 13 | An outright refusal to give the victim of a damaging comment a reasonable opportunity to reply — a rejection of a polite letter to the editor , for example — may similarly betray a degree of malice behind the original comment . |
| 14 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 15 | I never thought that I would live to see such an important person write such a shameful letter , which is usually the behaviour of people in countries under dictatorship . |
| 16 | The firm can treat the customer as an ordinary business investor even if he does not consent in writing unless he says otherwise ; a one-way letter is sufficient . |
| 17 | Occasionally a book has almost achieved immortality , like John Ruskin 's Stones of Venice , but even more modest books can call up the spirit of a place ; and a private letter may illuminate both a person and a work of art . |
| 18 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 19 | The letters reveal there is a private letter attached to the British Aerospace deal allowing the company to sell Rover without penalty within five years — although the published terms say the company would have to pay back £650 million . |
| 20 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 21 | On 3 September a letter was received from William Moorcroft offering his temporary services , it was not followed up , on the ostensible grounds that it was a private letter addressed to Sheldon and not to the College committee in general . |
| 22 | Imagine this : you want to send a private letter to a friend . |
| 23 | Even if it were not , there would be other problems , such as whether a book read by millions would count equally , in the corpus , with a private letter ; whether some publications ( eg literary magazines ) would be weightier , in determining the norm for the language , than others . |
| 24 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 25 | Roger Freeman , described the report as ‘ over pessimistic ’ in a private letter . |
| 26 | In a memorable letter to Rohde , written at the same time , he envisaged his eventual goal : " I gave a lecture here on " Socrates and Tragedy " which excited terror and incomprehension . |
| 27 | It should be noted here that the recognition output such as ‘ \ ’ and ‘ - ’ are strokes of the pen which the recogniser has been unable to join to any other stroke to give a possible letter . |
| 28 | I should also value , and quickly , advice and a possible letter of support for a particular job application . |
| 29 | It was a twenty-page letter this time — in ink . |
| 30 | Mr Oliver and his fellow rebel leaders were yesterday already planning a strong letter urging a yes vote to be sent to all MCC members , who include the Prime Minister and well-known celebrities like Gary Lineker , Harold Pinter and Tim Rice . |