Example sentences of "a [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked a pleasant enough young man , and genuinely concerned . |
| 2 | It was a place of women , a mocking slightly sordid club . |
| 3 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 4 | Add a subtle yet striking change to your hair , simply by alternating your styling products . |
| 5 | Somehow he had the picture of a private yet public killing : murder for pleasure . |
| 6 | A solid yet agreeable course book with material to commend it to the serious student . |
| 7 | The death suggested a possible previously unrecognised side-effect of ecstasy . |
| 8 | In the highly sophisticated and competitive Malaysian markets , Guinness is a mainstream yet premium brand , accounting for a third of all beer consumed in the country . |
| 9 | Drakes have a low often wheezy whistle , and ducks a harsh growling ‘ kurrr , kurrr ’ |
| 10 | The trouble here is that none of these composers had a strong enough creative personality to absorb his antecedents to his own advantage . |
| 11 | Behind the monolithic abstraction " aristocracy " was a real world of competing noble individuals , often threatened rather than supported by their own kin , lacking a strong enough local base , needing royal patronage and support . |
| 12 | But , but , but once , once the , the stories get around that the communists have not created a strong enough military base to guarantee that land reform will hold |
| 13 | Because we decided that they did n't have a , a strong enough military base er w w w what erm gave the peasants the incentive to , to join ? |
| 14 | Pregnancy is a wonderful time to have constitutional homoeopathic treatment because changes can happen much more quickly and simply than at other times resulting in a healthier more energetic body that will perform its functions with greater ease ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 15 | Epitomized in this struggle over Athman , and especially in Gide 's correspondence with his mother , is a hesitant yet certain knowledge of how sexual discrimination relates inextricably to other kinds of discrimination . |
| 16 | So , it 's quite clear that the electric car is a technical technically feasible form of car , however if you ask why do you want an electric car there would could be different reasons . |
| 17 | He looks a bit ill , smiles vaguely , and has a strange rather shy expression . |
| 18 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 19 | The text included a controversial recently added provision under which President Manuel Pinto da Costa would remain in office until the end of 1990 , rather than Sept. 30 when his current term of office expired . |
| 20 | In general a controversial relatively low-profile approach was adopted by the authorities , although on occasions prisoners were drenched with water from hoses , and siren and other loud noises were used . |
| 21 | 3 Post-conviction — a few particularly notorious sex offenders will be reported in the press after imprisonment . |
| 22 | Even with the extra land involved , which I seem to remember used to be a near derelict gravel soccer pitch and a few barely used tennis courts , the Roland Garros site would still only cover 21.5 acres , compared with 44 at Wimbledon . |
| 23 | Gy François then led us to the village 's chimpanzee sanctuary , a small grass-covered shelter where rice is regularly laid on a few very old-looking chimpanzee skulls . |
| 24 | Now I 've met not many yet , but very impressive , a few very impressive field workers . |
| 25 | Nothing overt , of course , but a few too many underworld contacts , a few too many mysterious bequests . |
| 26 | We also spent a lot on advertising , and selected just a few really good author interviews . |
| 27 | It is a lively superbly well-equipped resort where there is always plenty to do — from horse-riding to go-karting , tennis to mini-golf . |
| 28 | Physical contact of a different yet similar nature is also entailed in the sporting activity at the Victoria Centre known as ‘ murderball ’ . |
| 29 | Eventually , when I voiced the thought that it might be better if the FedPol confirmed that a further pleasingly large sum had been transferred to the holding facility of my Fedbank , to be released to my account when the job was done . |
| 30 | While this reinforces the empirical nature of the question , there is a further empirically relevant problem raised by nonlinear budget constraints . |