Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked out of the sunlight into the cool dark shadow of the gorge , meeting no deity with oozy hair hot a couple eating sandwiches and two crag rats . |
| 2 | On the second day of the trail the trial rather the prosecution said that in interviews with the police the pair had demonstrated a fluent capacity to tell lies . |
| 3 | You have to have all those ingredients and then you must drive at the top of your ability and sustain that level right the way through the Championship . |
| 4 | communism rather a , a weak theory does n't it ? |
| 5 | I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately . |
| 6 | And we try to show that retirement can be a rewarding and fulfilling I find it so anyway so I can sell things in that er sense having an experience rather a young person talking to older people how er fulfilling it wis is in retirement . |
| 7 | Cos he 'll have to say mass somewhere every day |
| 8 | Consequently , those British cities and towns which have large numbers of people using injectable drugs may be among the first to experience full-blown AIDS/HIV epidemics , not just because needle-sharing can spread the virus between drug users , but because infected drug users-particularly the young and single-are likely to spread the virus to the wider population through sexual contacts . |
| 9 | Tolkien furthermore no doubt noted that Malory 's insensitivity in this respect ( a common thing in medieval writers ) had not led necessarily to failure . |
| 10 | It is very difficult to seal all the cracks in a building so a more effective method is to create an underpressure beneath the floor to counter that in the building . |
| 11 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 12 | Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building . |
| 13 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |
| 14 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 15 | Since we know from other evidence that the warrior and mercantile classes of Europe were not being depleted in this period — on the contrary , were steadily rising — we can see here further evidence of the rise in population of this age , a rise all the more striking since it could continue and grow in strength even though so many men and women were following a life of celibacy . |
| 16 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 17 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 18 | In its use as an auxiliary , do has retained from the idea of " performing an activity " signified in its use as a lexical verb only the notion of " something actually taking its place in time " : do auxiliary thus has the effect of discussing the real actualization in time of the lexical event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 19 | He , he was thrilled because he he got er , his name on the board so the head |
| 20 | Cut the crap — he 's doing a handrail down a flight of steps , that 's all . |
| 21 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 22 | It was high time someone took his young sister down a peg . |
| 23 | He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes . |
| 24 | And an hour down the golf range . |
| 25 | However , as we might expect , their mechanical behaviour and especially their swelling in water and the relation between their temperature and moisture content and their strength , differ only in detail and present much the same general picture . |
| 26 | Menem , who had accepted Yoma 's resignation only a few days before , had been forced to suspend her from her post in March when a report by a Spanish investigative judge , hearing evidence in the Spanish capital , Madrid , accused her of being part of an international drug laundering ring . |
| 27 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 28 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
| 29 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 30 | And he got the sack so the firm came on strike . |