Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked such a handicap certainty for the Tote Gold Trophy that he quite ruined the betting on the race when starting 7-4 on in a field of 10 , the smallest of the series . |
| 2 | Carolyn sat on her bed and swallowed the sleeping tablets , washing each down with a mouthful of water . |
| 3 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 4 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 5 | I put that down to a lack of maturity and the effects of tension — there were many occasions when players tried to blast the ball into the net at 100mph instead of remaining cool under pressure . |
| 6 | Nor is it stable enough for a faith without foundations . |
| 7 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 8 | There had been enormous economic advances , which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance . |
| 9 | The burst of social legislation prior to 1914 was possible only within a context in which the most obvious social evils of the day , such as the poverty caused by old age , sickness and unemployment , had been identified and shown to be amenable to State action . |
| 10 | Day 8 Received an order for 20 hang gliders at £400 each together with a cheque for £8,000 . |
| 11 | The management of the large Alhambra Theatre agreed to put this on for a week as a curtain-raiser to a horror film starring Boris Karloff . |
| 12 | I offer this merely as a piece of information . |
| 13 | The way was now open for peace negotiations with France , and these negotiations inevitably looked rather like the negotiations which had ended the wars against Louis XIV in 1713 — sensible enough at a time of high expenditure but not fair to allies nor likely to allow the British negotiators to gain the largest possible amount at the bargaining table . |
| 14 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 15 | I put this down as a reason for brother Carl 's behaviour and shortcomings ; his tantrums , his many displays of neurosis , his lack of tolerance with others , and his need for understanding — which we , his brothers and sisters , failed to give . |
| 16 | She found nothing , although she did n't know whether to put this down to a lack of success on the part of the police or the massive coverage afforded to the hijacking of a wide-bodied jet over Italy . |
| 17 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 18 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 19 | Standing in the queue were problems of the economy , of the development of the productive forces , which , with regard to agriculture , was conceivable only in a form of the growth of petty-bourgeois economy . |
| 20 | The thirty he had looked would seem old enough to a child of eleven . |
| 21 | At Nesseby we found a tiny peninsula with cliffs just high enough for a colony of kittiwakes , which were all feeding large young . |
| 22 | I 'm writing this prose now in a domestic quiet broken only by a blackbird outside my window , and a car starting up and revving . |
| 23 | Mr Zeman expects to become unemployed soon as a result of the sudden , unexplained decision to close his forecasting department in the economics institute where he works , but he denies that he is a martyr in the reformist cause . |
| 24 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 25 | When will the Government realise that enlargement will not be acceptable just as a slogan for the Tory re-election campaign , but that it means saying now , and clearly , that the EFTA countries are needed in the Community and that early membership for central and eastern European countries , according to realisable targets , should be a priority to which we are committed ? |
| 26 | If pig butchers kept piggy banks , his must have been empty once in a while during this period … |
| 27 | Six months later , in September , I followed this up with a circular to health authorities requiring them to put their services out to tender . |
| 28 | It had been one of Gregory 's first acts as pope to invest and consecrate him as bishop of Die , and to follow this up with a letter to the count of Die which contains a first draft of his later decree prohibiting the investiture of bishops by secular rulers . |
| 29 | It 's not just because this illness is self- , it 's self-inflicted er , cause , er , you 've obviously picked this up from a variety of other er , I 'd say , sources , but you also pick it up in you know , blood transfusions situation . |
| 30 | He had the difficult task in 1832–3 of reconciling his sympathy for the Whig government with pressing for the sort of positive action on emancipation which was acceptable both to a majority in the political and parliamentary class and antislavery militants in the country . |