Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion … |
| 2 | He suggests using a deep-conditioning treatment once a week for dry hair and twice a month for oily hair . |
| 3 | It offered opportunities for the reception and use of the precepts of economic liberalism and thus a break from intellectually old-fashioned mercantilist conceptions of public policy . |
| 4 | He was running what was mostly a sixties disco with a sprinkling of classic rock and only a few recent standards . |
| 5 | Er and I think we would all er acknowledge er the the precise difficulties of that wording and perhaps a , an amendment may need to be considered on the second line following the list of districts . |
| 6 | The German blitz was resumed in the early months of this year and then a fresh terror , the " flying bombs " , was directed against London in the summer . |
| 7 | English was the most far-flung language in 1880 ; not only in new nations , but in British colonies where it was the language of official life and therefore a language of record and social advancement for the native . |
| 8 | A few hundred years of Imperial rule and already a coterie surrounded the throne which , by its very nature , endangered the survival of the Imperium . |
| 9 | messageRoutines — Two procedures each allowing the output of a message of fixed length and also a procedure delivering a warning message . |
| 10 | So there were going to be four months of hard training and probably a lot of violence . |
| 11 | Not all information will be regarded as of equal weight and therefore a truly total assessment is unattainable . |
| 12 | The Blue Elephant , 4 Fulham Broadway , SW6 ( 01 385 6595 ) has brought the jungle to London in an imaginative series of bamboo-roofed spaces broken by walls of trellised greenery and even a lacquered bridge with a real stream trickling under it . |
| 13 | We found that only about one in five of all establishments used either form of temporary worker and only a third of those used them in numbers equivalent to at least five per cent of their labour forces . |
| 14 | You should provide them with a list of topics of general interest and also a list of any specific cases in which the firm is involved . |
| 15 | Rapid growth ( high productivity ) means ready absorption of red light and so a greater difference between red and NIR bidirectional reflectance than one with slower growth . |
| 16 | The area is as yet largely untouched by the ugliness of mass afforestation and still a paradise for lovers of the outdoors . |
| 17 | Like marrying a soldier , as Marjorie had , seventeen moves in twenty-four years of active service and never a bellyache out of her . |
| 18 | The statement added : ‘ Jason 's scientific advisers do not concur with this view and therefore a formal request will be made during the next few days for this non-disclosed information . |
| 19 | If you went and stood in the same place now then obviously it would look different in that sense , would n't it so the background if you like would be different would n't it with high rise and maybe a different . |
| 20 | How could there be an English policy seriously at odds with British policy and still a British policy worthy of the name ? |
| 21 | This had long been the LRDG 's main base with clear water and even a few European houses . |
| 22 | He was met with extreme suspicion and often a rudeness that was doubtless considered patriotic , like Gary Cooper 's in Hollywood . |
| 23 | Joan Ruddock , former chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and now a member of Labour 's front bench team in the Commons , said she and many others were ‘ deeply saddened ’ by the change . |
| 24 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 25 | I look forward to your advice in due course and hopefully a more colourful life . |
| 26 | A girl in a smart black uniform is collecting money in this box and quite a few people stop and drop money in it . |
| 27 | Grief : so much of life , its relationships and its creative opportunities are damaged or lost in the course of addictive disease that grief is universally a major factor in early recovery and also a major risk in the possibility of return to the substance or process of addiction . |
| 28 | If the firm can expand its production it will lead to a reduction in average cost and hence a reduction in price , not only in the overseas market but also in the home market , which may lead to further domestic market expansion . |
| 29 | Rather , erm , one was in one position and then a second took up a different position . |
| 30 | With only six grades for such a large group of staff , it was not felt sensible , however , to use a system which apparently stated that a post scoring x points was clearly in one grade and yet a post scoring x 5 points was , equally clearly , in a different grade ( all possible scores were multiples of 5 and the range of possible scores was approximately 135 to 1500 ) . |