Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [be] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child can only be placed under the supervision of a probation officer if the local authority request this and there is already a probation officer working with another member of the household ( Sched 3 , para 9(2) ) . |
| 2 | ( The places we saw & visited were mind-boggling but it was really a family visit to see & , their daughters , sons-in-law & grand-children … all boys ) . |
| 3 | It might not be cos you might have got the formula wrong and you 've got every one of them wrong but it 's usually a good sign . |
| 4 | He has great timing and is naturally very funny but he was always a gentleman and very professional as well . ’ |
| 5 | It 's rather oily and it 's quite a a dense liquid . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's extremely unsafe and it 's only a matter of time before someone is badly hurt . ’ |
| 7 | For once she was early and there were only a handful of girls in the yard , all stamping their feet and huddling in their cloaks to keep out the bitter cold . |
| 8 | He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world . |
| 9 | They may be unrelated but there is certainly a pattern in all this . ’ |
| 10 | Charity looked serious but she was obviously a master at the game and he must not show he 'd been jolted . |
| 11 | The rigidity of the Seayak is noticeable but it is still a plastic boat and therefore slow and fairly cumbersome . |
| 12 | I felt really down when the baby was due and there 's still a sense of loss . ’ |
| 13 | The aims and objectives of all experiments were not always formulated as clearly as possible and there was sometimes a tendency for instrumentation to be set up in the hope that a specific problem would arise once measurements were obtained . |
| 14 | Two of three women with adenocarcinoma had accumulated more than 45 pack years each and one was also a heavy drinker . |
| 15 | general studies and that 's , you know , er she 's n not randy in that but she 's knows all the all the interesting bit , I du n no we have her for erm , yeah for that and she 's quite a laugh and she does n't take any shit from the boys at all . |
| 16 | I give you that and it 's probably a big mistake . |
| 17 | Because the ruler takes on such an exalted role , his power is unchallengeable and he is therefore a despot . |
| 18 | It is all very costly and there is sometimes a limited choice of what is available for your client to sponsor that makes economic sense and will attract media and consumer attention . |
| 19 | They are all exclusive to Club 18–30 and there 's always a really lively atmosphere day and night . |
| 20 | I 'm 21 but I 'm still a kid : I go to pubs and do this and that and I think , ‘ Well , if I 'm a kid , other kids must do that ’ . |
| 21 | They go just as fast but it 's now a bending race instead of a straight one |
| 22 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 23 | I include netting as a sport since in my view , it is undoubtedly that but it is also a very professional method of getting to grips with the stock . |
| 24 | Both are effective and it 's really a matter of personal preference which you choose . |
| 25 | By that stage , the stadium will have a capacity of 67,500 and there is already a match against South Africa scheduled for November 1994 . |
| 26 | There is , in fact , an organisation in France that runs world championships for the speedsail , where tactics are unimportant and it is just a matter of courage as speeds of up to 50mph . |
| 27 | I think ideally what we 're saying er Mrs is that it 's er , it 's an interesting plant and being a native plant of course there 'll be wild life that feeds on it which is to the good but it 's probably a plant for a , a larger wilder garden really . |
| 28 | We got very good but there was hardly a week when some of us was n't killed . |
| 29 | In the more elementary systems that we are now considering , kinship , of a general sort , is assumed to be all-pervading but there is again a discrimination between the insiders and the outsiders , we " and they " . |
| 30 | It started to make er a bit of a horrible noise around the ten second mark and from there it was aborted immediately , erm the sledgehammer was handy and it was just a matter of seconds after that . |