Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dropped into a bit of a snooze , which any giant might be pardoned for wanting after so much walking and a bit of eating , never mind a sup of mead . |
| 2 | who also picked up trophies for best new editor and a special award for most promising newcomer , said : ‘ I was quite simply amazed . |
| 3 | It is true that his average support score during his presidency was 76 per cent ( Johnson 's was 83 per cent , and no figures are available for Roosevelt ) , but such scores are of only limited value as a measure of a president 's relationship with the legislature . |
| 4 | They are computers of immensely greater sophistication and a different type to engineers ' boxes , but computers nevertheless . |
| 5 | We must acknowledge , as we have done in the past , the fact that a physically painful experience at an early age , in the interests of discipline , is of more lasting value than a stream of compassionate understanding showered on a delinquent at a later stage . |
| 6 | In a rock-salt mine near Salzburg , for example , the salt has preserved ( in shafts sometimes 350 metres deep ) workers ' tools , torches , swatches of finely woven cloth and a 2,600-year-old moccasin of calfskin . |
| 7 | The water should be of almost zero hardness and a low pH . |
| 8 | Yes , I heard two men speaking and the possibility of either another man or a woman also in the premises . |
| 9 | I take a gram of complication , a gram of shamelessly immoral behaviour and a gram of observation and I mix all these elements together as best I can . |
| 10 | This would seem to point to the need for more centralised bargaining since a government can most effectively pursue its policy of encouraging responsive bargaining if it can deal with the leaders of unions and employers who represent highly centralised structures , themselves have adequate authority and can expect appropriate support and consent from their memberships ( OECD , 1979a ) . |
| 11 | Albert remarks , a touch sniffily : ‘ An evening at the Crazy Horse Saloon will always make for more compulsive viewing than a day in the life of a Benedictine monastery . ’ |
| 12 | But evaluation calls for more particular consideration and a closer look at the cultural differences between the domain of disciplines concerned with language and learning and the domain of the subject of language as it appears on the curriculum . |
| 13 | Unlike most written discourse and a good deal of spoken discourse like lectures , broadcasts , and speeches , a conversation is constructed and executed as it happens , by two people , feeling their way forward together . |
| 14 | Damory 's promise to pay Lancaster just over £600 may help to account for both this reconciliation and a subsequent review of royal grants which allowed Damory to keep virtually all that he had gained . |
| 15 | During both this attack and a repeat performance the following night , crews were greeted with an intense barrage of ack-ack as they approached the target which resulted in the loss of seven aircraft and 18 men . |
| 16 | He was facing the man in the lit room with only thin wood and a lot of glass between them and the man was still moving , the blue-black automatic squat and ugly in his fist . |
| 17 | Hurrying away on her next mission , Nicandra felt quietly elated because the little act of kindness in donating her scone had been accepted with so much pleasure and a thoughtful reservation for breakfast . |
| 18 | And he argues that changing social relations imply the need for more specialist and responsive service delivery , while changing managerial technologies ( particularly information technology ) make it possible to flatten managerial hierarchies by removing many of the middle layers and encouraging the growth of decentralized offices with less professional specialization and a greater ability to deal with individual issues across professional lines . |
| 19 | FIG. 1 Modelled percentage changes in the O 3 concentration as a function of latitude and altitude in July ( a ) and September ( b ) ; comparison is between the simulation including SO 2 injection and a control run with no SO 2 injection . |
| 20 | FIG. 3 Modelled percentage changes in the O 2 photolysis as a function of latitude and altitude in July ( a ) and September ( b ) ; comparison is between the simulation including SO 2 injection and a control run with no SO 2 injection . |
| 21 | could , with somewhat sparser hair and a change |
| 22 | The career of one of his Foreign Office contemporaries had been said to have foundered after he said ‘ Pepper and salt ’ to the wife of a diplomat with uncertainly coloured hair and a poor command of the English language . |
| 23 | A plea of honest belief that a girl is above 16 is thus far more likely to be pleaded and with far greater success than a plea of honest belief in consent on a rape charge . |
| 24 | It was the altar — stuffed with as much clutter as a belle epoque boudoir — that really made me think . |
| 25 | The community care Support Force swung in on hard-pressed SSDs with as much subtlety as a ton of bricks . |
| 26 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |
| 27 | They were used to seeing 3 × 80 oz. bottles put in with too much colour and a ‘ hope for the best ’ attitude . |
| 28 | He had acted in accordance with the Punjab creed , but with too much enthusiasm and a few decades too late . |
| 29 | It would be a serious game rifle with considerably more punch than a target toy , a guaranteed killer of the same gauge as the 7.62mm NATO standard issue Service weapons with which Forester was already familiar . |
| 30 | In a place like Alberta , with that much capital and a good deal of know-how , which he himself had , the boy could be quite wealthy before he was forty . |