Example sentences of "a [adj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enterprise rooms are either in the gasthof itself , or in the very attractive ‘ Landhaus ’ directly opposite , which has a pleasant traditionally furnished reception-cum-lounge area . |
| 2 | He looked a pleasant enough young man , and genuinely concerned . |
| 3 | It was a place of women , a mocking slightly sordid club . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Add a subtle yet striking change to your hair , simply by alternating your styling products . |
| 6 | Somehow he had the picture of a private yet public killing : murder for pleasure . |
| 7 | A solid yet agreeable course book with material to commend it to the serious student . |
| 8 | The death suggested a possible previously unrecognised side-effect of ecstasy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Drakes have a low often wheezy whistle , and ducks a harsh growling ‘ kurrr , kurrr ’ |
| 11 | The trouble here is that none of these composers had a strong enough creative personality to absorb his antecedents to his own advantage . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | DENIS COMPTON 's vintage year was 1947 when he set an all-time record of 3,816 runs in first-class cricket — a total never likely to be surpassed . |
| 16 | Haskett Smith had climbed the Needle and elsewhere at a respectable enough standard , but it was Godfrey Solly — a Go-fearing solicitor who became both mayor and a freeman of Birkenhead — who really started injecting iron into the soul of climbing that cold spring day on May 15 , 1882 . |
| 17 | A spacious typically Tyrolean gasthof , the Waldhof stand in a meadow at the foot of the Scheffau chair and gondola lifts . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Vancouver had its share of unusual ‘ characters ’ one of these being ‘ Professor ’ Francis , a tall rather unkempt and unshaven man who spent many hours in the CBC studio lobby watching the rehearsals or broadcasts through the plate glass windows . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He looks a bit ill , smiles vaguely , and has a strange rather shy expression . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Most of those collected on the continent are well represented in temperate southern latitudes ; some are cosmopolitan , and a few ecologically prominent species are bipolar ( Longton 1985 ) . |
| 27 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
| 28 | Although a few normally free-living genera such as Micronema and Rhabditis occasionally cause problems in animals , the only important genus from the veterinary point of view is Strongyloides . |
| 29 | 3 Post-conviction — a few particularly notorious sex offenders will be reported in the press after imprisonment . |
| 30 | In any event , a few particularly strident voices denounced me over the agreement . |