Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a particularly [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looks like a particularly stupid tortoise . |
| 2 | Gamma , Lambda , and Tau are orange ; Lambda lies in a particularly rich field , best seen with × 7 . |
| 3 | A. Walton Litz , for example , relates the term postmodernism to the semanteme it contains in a particularly pessimistic way , suggesting that ‘ like post-mortem or post-coital ’ , it implies that ‘ the fun is over ’ ( Walton Litz 1986 : 1142 ) . |
| 4 | First , it interacts with other variables of interest to sociolinguists ; and second , it illustrates in a particularly acute form the ill-defined character of speaker variables in comparison with linguistic variables . |
| 5 | This tagset exhibits in a particularly noticeable form one of the chief strengths of the TEI approach to encoding : it provides the encoder with a well-defined set of tools which can be used to make explicit his or her reading of a text . |
| 6 | One may agree that the expression which Firth dismisses as nonsense has a curious ring to it but this seems to be due to the choice of lexis which results in a particularly inconsequential proposition which it is hard to imagine ever figuring in actual use . |
| 7 | This results in a particularly dramatic decrease for categories 38 , 39 and 44 , these correspond to the most common potential scenario statements : ‘ If the car ahead braked suddenly … ’ , |
| 8 | Often referred to as a ‘ lumbar punch ’ , which sounds like a particularly nasty boxing foul , it is commonly thought to paralyse from the waist down those few lucky enough to survive the procedure , or at least render them impotent and incapable of sexual intercourse . |
| 9 | Factory preset number 14 is called ‘ More Gary ’ but sounds like a particularly wimpy Gazza to me . |
| 10 | The little spotted skunk puts on a particularly impressive performance . |
| 11 | The DNA within the nucleus replicates in a particularly complex manner which ensures that all its genes are copied and that each daughter cell receives a complete duplicate set . |
| 12 | The stretch of river below Barden Bridge makes for a particularly rewarding walk . |
| 13 | And , although it arises in a particularly acute form in these flavour-aversion studies , the same difficulty of interpretation vexes all the experiments cited here . |
| 14 | The urge for an independent central bank and a proposed Euro central bank comes at a particularly dangerous time , when recessions , depressions and even a slump can not be ruled out . |