Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 2 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 3 | She would not be able to work with such a scene constantly before her eyes . |
| 4 | Recollecting his churlish behaviour , Isabel wondered how she could be attracted to such a man even for a moment . |
| 5 | This country is not prepared to accept the gospel of despair in mass unemployment , which is returning on such a scale today . |
| 6 | They would not have responded on such a scale otherwise . |
| 7 | Well think , if you concentrated on that a bit more instead of just doing it any where in the air you might get on a bit quicker . |
| 8 | The trees grow at such a rate here that you can hardly even see the sea . ’ |
| 9 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 10 | A tol tolerably well behaved one would say peasant association , I 've lived here for decades tilling my land , I 've never heard of such a thing before and I have managed to live alright , I advise you to give it up . |
| 11 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 12 | If any pixel is seen in such a strip then the reference card is adjudged to be out of position . |
| 13 | I should have transferred to pastoral a while back . |
| 14 | She had dreamed of such a moment so often . |
| 15 | But I mean , it 's getting to the stage now where it 's gon na become counter-productive , well , for me cos it 's got to such a point now where I 've got exchanges going through , I 've got erm sales going through , details to be typed , canvassing going out , instructions , appointments to make , the outcomes |
| 16 | But only 3,000 wildcat miners are digging at the mine , compared with 20,000 a year ago . |
| 17 | Only two cases of gonorrhea were reported in the first 19 months , compared with four a week previously . |
| 18 | Sixty-one players , compared with 32 a year ago , will earn at least $3 million and 22 will get $4 million or more . |
| 19 | Because of the recession only six in ten of beds in the group 's 839 hotels were occupied compared with seven a year ago . |
| 20 | The overall number of entries for seven handicap races are also down on 1992 , to 394 from 443 , but Irish interest has risen sharply with 61 engaged this year , compared with 39 a year ago , which Cheltenham 's managing director , Edward Gillespie , said was great news . |
| 21 | Crowds for the 10 matches ( Manchester City and QPR play tonight ) totalled 212,558 , compared with 285,016 a year ago . |
| 22 | As of the beginning of 1992 , there were 60,000 private farms registered in Russia , compared with 4,500 a year earlier . |
| 23 | During last year 1,750 members resigned compared with 489 a year earlier . |
| 24 | Galileo produced his famous book called in brief A Dialogue etc. between a Peripatetic aptly called Simplicio , a Venetian gentleman Sagredo ( actually Galileo 's close friend of the old days ) and a scientifically informed Florentine , Salvatio , who was really voicing the opinions of Galileo himself . |
| 25 | Although a more general move away from the indigenous Gothic style of architecture and church design only began in earnest a century later after the Restoration , the trend was signalled as early as the 1630s with the construction of St Paul 's , Covent Garden . |
| 26 | ‘ I lived in such a jungle once , ’ said Meh'Lindi . |
| 27 | Bassetja led from half a mile out and looked at one stage like winning the race as the favourite Velma appeared to have it all to do . |
| 28 | Whilst the assumption that asset demands are set at such a level so as to minimize ( 4 ) yields models that are both tractable and consistent with observed empirical realities , the justification for quadratic costs in such models is always somewhat ad hoc . |
| 29 | They wondered why they were asked if they could stand heights and naturally no one admitted to such a weakness so seven volunteers were picked to appear in Les Jambes de la Femme . |
| 30 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |