Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not sure that Joyce thinks this altogether a good thing . |
| 2 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 3 | And Neighbourhood Watch is really to try that down a little bit . |
| 4 | It always pays to stick as closely to the truth as possible , I found that out a long time ago . |
| 5 | Er a and he jazzed this up a little bit , and perhaps I think he 's gone a bit over the top on it . |
| 6 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 7 | One of the most famous enabled you to look right down a spitting Pipeline barrel through the snake 's eye at the far end towards the mountains in the distance . |
| 8 | Now I give this quite a strong point to bring up . . |
| 9 | HSBC chairman Sir William Purves said : ‘ Although economic growth in Asia was robust , the continuing recession in several of our major markets made 1992 quite a difficult year and resulted in a significant increase in the level of provisioning . |
| 10 | ‘ Although economic growth in Asia was robust , the continuing recession in several of our major markets made 1992 quite a difficult year , and resulted in a significant increase in the level of provisioning . ’ |
| 11 | Well I thought I was adequately , adequately provided for the er future but obviously I 'm not , I 'll have to bump that up a little bit . |
| 12 | At first it will be surrounded and sniffed and if it appears friendly then a good licking follows and if this is accepted by the stranger then it 's usually used for a good old scratch . |
| 13 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 14 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 15 | When Liman , the Senate Counsel at the hearings , suggested that it had been ‘ on-the-job training ’ , North thought that rather a good description . |
| 16 | the relative index , which became necessary once a reasonable number of subjects had been enumerated . |
| 17 | Body language , yes we 'll talk a little bit about body language and take that just a little bit further |
| 18 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 19 | It will be demonstrated later that the correlation between the true area and the projected area visible to the camera is good enough to make this not a prime consideration . |
| 20 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 21 | Lead this up a stout stake at one end of the row , tying in position , and put a funnel in the open end . |