Example sentences of "an [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red : An intensively conditioned formula for bouncy curls on hair that is hard to wave . |
| 2 | The exact form of Economic and Monetary Union was settled at Maastricht with an ‘ opt-in ’ provision for the UK ; whether ( and , if so , when ) the UK will in fact opt in is an intensively political subject outside the scope of this book , although it should be noted that the CBI favours such a union in principle . |
| 3 | Moreover , there is a danger than data that presented very little pattern originally can be smoothed into an artefactually interesting story ; exercise 9.4 has been designed to enable you to explore this point . |
| 4 | Luke was slowing the car as they arrived at the restaurant , one of the most famous in Taipei , Maria knew , and an immaculately uniformed parking attendant was approaching . |
| 5 | On a balcony in the background an immaculately uniformed band of the Household Guards played selections of light classical music to relax everyone . |
| 6 | There is an immaculately manicured lawn , a little pond surrounded by rushes , a high wall with young trees and creepers climbing up toward the wire netting at the top , beds of flowers , and , by some of the front doors , holes have been gouged out of the paving and clematis and creepers planted . |
| 7 | Among the gifts they gave her was a sun-lounger and garden table , flowers , pictures , an immaculately iced cake and taped of Irish music to remind her of her homeland . |
| 8 | Such an immaculately synchronised performance between two figures seeks totally to control and condition our attention . |
| 9 | They do this despite the fact that on the kitchen floor there is an immaculately clean dish of pure tap water , and probably milk as well , awaiting them . |
| 10 | If the trouble has started and does not look like stopping , the best solution is to provide an immaculately clean tray of fresh litter , place it in a quiet corner , and then shut the animal up in that particular room , releasing it only when it has used the tray in the approved manner . |
| 11 | Nixon 's advisers impressed upon him that such a controversial figure could not be confirmed by an overwhelmingly Democratic congress . |
| 12 | Nobody will deny that the Commission has an overwhelmingly Franco-German flavour , and this is already reflected in its economic priorities . |
| 13 | Christian assurance is no merely intellectual persuasion , but an overwhelmingly convincing experience of the indwelling Spirit welling up within us and flowing out to others . |
| 14 | When this is combined with the fact that the Republic was an overwhelmingly Catholic country whose constitution recognized the special superordinate position of the Catholic Church , it is easy to see how any state recognition of the Pope or the Catholic hierarchy could be seen as a ‘ constitutional ’ issue . |
| 15 | Obviously different social groups have a varying ability to articulate these concerns , but there is a widely shared general notion that there is something valuable — ‘ the British way of life ’ — which would be undermined by translation into an overwhelmingly Catholic country . |
| 16 | The medical professional is in an overwhelmingly powerful position . |
| 17 | All of these different circumstances , with the added natural factor of increased birth-rates in a non-serf-owning environment , resulted in Siberia being inhabited at the end of the eighteenth century by an overwhelmingly Russian peasant population . |
| 18 | There were rather more Presbyterians , a few Roman Catholics and Jews , and an overwhelmingly Anglican majority , at least 90 per cent of the party . |
| 19 | A strategical handicap of increased dependence on imported food and the incalculable cultural loss involved in commitment to an overwhelmingly industrial society were other results to be set against a higher standard of living for the majority . |
| 20 | This southern province of Serbia is an overwhelmingly ethnic-Albanian region , whose people crave independence . |
| 21 | The Primate of New Zealand ( where a woman has recently been consecrated as a diocesan bishop ) speaks of women priests bringing ‘ an overwhelmingly positive contribution ’ to the life of the church . |
| 22 | An SD report , summarizing reactions to the film from numerous cities , noted an overwhelmingly positive reception . |
| 23 | It was , thus , an overwhelmingly working-class locality , although there was no single dominant industry in the area . |
| 24 | It was an overwhelmingly Conservative seat , made up in large part of Mayfair and Belgravia . |
| 25 | She remained an overwhelmingly agrarian country . |
| 26 | The workers in section 61 were angry because they felt , firstly , that the quotas of production allocated to white workers were unfair compared with the quota allocated to them ; secondly , because conditions of work were different for Asian workers — their washing times , lunch breaks and toilet breaks were restricted ; and thirdly because , although most of the workers were Asians , the union branch had an overwhelmingly white shop steward 's committee ( there was only one Asian shop steward ) which was not only uninterested in their struggles but actively opposed to them . |
| 27 | Sewage was dumped down the shaft too and no , it was not an environmentaly friendly thing to do . |
| 28 | The importance of this taxonomy of goods as private , or having a collective element ( this embraces common , public and toll goods ) is to determine whether markets will provide an allocatively efficient quantity of each type of good . |
| 29 | She waited what seemed an interminably long time before the same young maid again confronted her . |
| 30 | It was an arguably effective method of achieving both killing and disposal of the body — probably ensuring that the perpetrator remained undetected — to load the victim into an escape pod which was destined to be destroyed as soon as it was tracked by any of the platforms in orbit . |