Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think we 'll lose any hope of a properly integrated transport system .
2 It would be a pity if talk of road pricing were to divert attention from commonsense action needed now , or if it were seen as a substitute for a properly funded roads programme .
3 Increasing talk of Community Supervision Orders make a travesty of community care unless such orders are made in the context of good quality accommodation and a properly funded benefits system .
4 The knock-on effect is unacceptable to the Government , because it means having a properly resourced training programme , a properly resourced pre-school education programme , proper training opportunities and the development of measures to counter unemployment .
5 We need a properly resourced railway network not an empty piece of paper . ’
6 Pre-packed filtration systems and the growing emphasis on high-tech media are both in danger of making us forget the very important role that floss — and better still , a properly bonded filter mat — can play in … raising Zebra Finches .
7 Pre-packaged filtration systems , and the growing emphasis on high tech media are both in danger of making us forget the very important role that floss , and better still a properly bonded filter mat can play in filtration .
8 We now turn to consider what is involved in using the formal interview schedule for a properly constituted sample survey .
9 In 1964 , Phillips proposed that the addition of glucose to a properly balanced electrolyte solution would result in an oral treatment regimen which might replace the requirement for intravenous fluids altogether .
10 One of the difficulties he acknowledges is that the Irish are not given to fighting ‘ civilised ’ battles on a properly organised battle field .
11 How does a geometrically simple egg turn into a complex adult ?
12 Perhaps whoever becomes Secretary of State for Industry after the general election in four weeks time — what a mercifully short election period — should be called the Secretary of State for Industry and Technology .
13 Since both Stirling and GH-K , on eight points , boast a vastly better points differential , minus 56 and plus 38 respectively , to Selkirk 's minus 122 , a draw would enable them to retain their premier position .
14 ‘ Here ’ was the Buda , the restaurant where the great party was to be held , a long , low building , part of it pre-war , and with its outside liberally plastered with posters of a vastly hairy Karl Marx .
15 Newcastle have a vastly superior points difference than all their rivals and this could yet prove crucial at the death , though they have to win at Brierton Lane on March 14 to maintain their challenge .
16 Some clothes on her makes her look like a right podgy country maiden do n't it ?
17 But I still , no I was still saying oh yeah I can do this , getting in a right old state boys will be boys .
18 Most puppies have a rather limited attention span , such is their enthusiasm for life .
19 In 1972 , when he chaired the Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which were given the imposing title ‘ Causes , Origins , and Lessons of the Vietnam War ’ , a rather dyspeptic Senator Fulbright sought to put much of the blame for American involvement on Dean Acheson , on his European orientations and on his close war-time connections with the British .
20 I 'd conjured a rather camp Major Sager , complete with Jimmy Edwards moustache and a bed of roses which he pruned incessantly .
21 There was a poster on the wall that carried a picture of a rather idealized SS soldier and underneath it said , ‘ At the end stands victory . ’
22 We also saw two bridges in a rather odd coral pink ; and a surprisingly tasteful skull for piranha tanks ( or as an unlikely spawning site for cichlids ) .
23 ‘ Often , ’ he notes , ‘ we resembled a rather violent community welfare body rather than a group of revolutionaries . ’
24 They are seen as exercises ‘ camouflaged as stories … and are accompanied by pictures depicting situations for the description of which the child knows he would use a wide vocabulary and a rather complex sentence structure ’ ( p.221 ) , a vocabulary and sentence structure very different from those used for the primer .
25 He achieved this between 1753 and 1775 , using a rather dull text-book style neo-Classicism .
26 He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War .
27 In the end he settled for a rather Egyptian standing pose with both their faces front on and the bodies half turned away .
28 I was sitting between the principal of a college for policewomen and a rather saucy lady novelist . ’
29 Speelman with the white pieces has often been accused of having a rather wimpish opening repertoire , and on this occasion he gained nothing from the advantage of the first move .
30 Er Mr Mayor there 's only one point I I I want to make an and that is this is a rather typical conservative budget .
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