Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
2 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
3 | Increasingly however , they will have to look to other institutions , sometimes another school but more often a College of F.E. , to provide specialised courses for their students at set times in the week . |
4 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
5 | It may include three courses taken at the first year level only , or a second double or less frequently a second treble , ie |
6 | At the site of the accident Pan Gulf developers have erected a large hoarding which obscures the view of the road for oncoming traffic and almost opposite a local resident has placed large stones on the grass verge to prevent vehicles encroaching onto his property . |
7 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
8 | Even before 1905 a large minority and probably even a majority of their members were drawn from the lower classes . |
9 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |
10 | We have considered at length why natural monopoly leads to socially inefficient outcomes : too little output and too high a price in that industry . |
11 | This brochure is full of sociable holidays for the hyperactive ; Houseparties are sociable holidays too , but more for people who prefer unusual places , good company , a hefty novel , good food and perhaps just a dabble at watersports . |
12 | Moreover , the reliability may mean that a tradesman only sees one example of a particular circuit board each month or even only a couple a year . |
13 | Models provide a three dimensional experience and very often a real understanding of the structure . |
14 | He uses crack and cocaine and amphetamines , then more crack and more cocaine and perhaps even a speedball to round things off . |
15 | The count led them through one of the doors into what was a very beautiful drawing-room and almost immediately a servant came in with refreshments . |
16 | You know but just perhaps , perhaps occasional help and then maybe a bit later on get more involved . |
17 | Yet at Stamford , thirty miles away , not an industrial town but indeed always a market town for a very rich countryside , the market place has shrunk to a fraction of its original size . |
18 | Many schools are unlikely , therefore , to be able to offer their pupils as rich an experience of choral singing or as wide a repertoire of religious vocal music , as once they did . |
19 | The single , simple reason for the biography 's size is that , in the effort to come up with what , if only for the number of facts it contains , must rank as definitive , Ackroyd has scoured not just every imaginable source but also quite a few unimaginable ones as well . |
20 | Other organisms show evidence for muscular activity and so presumably a nervous system , as well as the inferred presence of a circulatory system . |
21 | Meanwhile here was he , the magistrate , in tight breeches , dirty cravat and too tight a collar stud , dressed as Scrooge . |
22 | In his place at the Treasury came the younger , almost reckless , figure of Nigel Lawson , an able former financial journalist and apparently still a nominal enthusiast for monetarism . |
23 | Diplomats and diplomatic representation , it could be argued , were for these states a doubtfully necessary luxury and perhaps even a dangerous one . |
24 | Other specialists might be expected , among them bone-workers , tanners , bakers and millers , and perhaps other food retailers , as well as a local potter and more rarely a glass-blower , where the necessary raw materials were available . |
25 | Rangers paid a heavy price for a similar gaols leak in the last round and now only a win in Turkey can take United through . |