Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Er — just the one night , I think , ’ she replied , having hoped not to stay even that long but suddenly realising that , since she needed some kind of base where she could go to collect her thoughts , that perhaps to have a room where she could relax and think in private was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 2 | That only lasted a year and a half . |
| 3 | But that only lasted a week or two , did n't it ? |
| 4 | This is home video , and if the person is not familiar with the text , then it is possible perhaps to have a libretto and translation to one side . |
| 5 | It was extended to Deanshanger in 1888 , but this only lasted a year and then it was closed , as was the track down Creed Street to the Wolverton Goods Yard in 1893 . |
| 6 | An economic boom developed in the spring of 1919 , but this only lasted a year and when the Bank Rate was hoisted to 7 per cent in April 1920 , the short-lived social reform programme was terminated . |
| 7 | I mean , you 'd think he 'd just have a few enough to make a pie or a crumble |
| 8 | Is not it about time that the Government stopped this practice of recruiting and exploiting young people who are deemed not old enough to cast a vote but in some cases are being forced to continue in the Army and can be put into armed combat , as they were during the Gulf war ? |
| 9 | cos that really was flying you know , that was , no , it was none of this fucking press a button and let the , just a computer do it , you 're a computer technician , you 're a pilot now , but this fucking Eddy , Eddy the , yeah real , there 's , there 's quite a few reputable |
| 10 | This probably means a motorway or fast-track dual carriageway to Stratford , running through the heart of Hackney from Highbury corner to the Lea interchange . |
| 11 | This initially proved a mirage and despite feelers put out by Baghdad for the holding of talks to air their differences , resistance continued . |
| 12 | His remarks came as Labour employment spokesman , Mr Henry McLeish , denied reports that the party was considering replacing the automatic payment of welfare benefits with a policy which would require many unemployed either to find a job or to accept full-time training or higher education . |
| 13 | There have been relatively few books written by senior officers of ‘ the other side ’ , and this certainly provides a commentary that will interest historians of the 1939–1945 air war . |
| 14 | But this too marked a climax and the end of a political epoch . |
| 15 | ‘ 'T IS easy enough to pick a lock when you know how . ’ |
| 16 | And , to descend to crude practicalities , you are going to get very much less money for what you have done , though it is only fair to add that if you are lucky and clever enough to create a story that catches editors ' fancies then it can be anthologised time and again and in the end bring in perhaps as much as a full-length book that has failed to get wide paperback sales . |
| 17 | Such thus represents a focusing or narrowing of the type of metaphoric relation developed in Out . |
| 18 | There are three forms of statutory demand set out in Schedule 4 to the rules , namely : Form 6.1 -debt for liquidated sum payable immediately Form 6.2-debt for liquidated sum payable immediately following a judgment or order of the court Form 6.3-debt payable at future date . |
| 19 | Anisminic Ltd. therefore sought a declaration that the determination was a nullity . |
| 20 | One of the ponies at my local stable always gets a cough and a runny nose when he is stabled in at nights . |
| 21 | Meanwhile their parents — and wives — turn back to the only resource over which they do have some control , and produce more children : hoping against hope that this one might stay and help with the work on the land , or that one might be lucky enough to get an education and a job sufficiently secure and well-paid to bring security for all the family . |
| 22 | So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E . |
| 23 | Although the treatment is free , the patient may well be asked to pay for the tests used in diagnosis , and for a woman who wished to be screened for , say , gonorrhoea , trichomoniasis , and candidiasis , the bill might come to 250 francs , without the blood tests for syphilis , and if she was unfortunate enough to have an ulcer that might be syphilitic or herpetic , a further 150 francs could be added to the bill . |
| 24 | We were to discover that it was just large enough to hold a corpse and two breathlessly claustrophobic busy-bodies . |
| 25 | At last it had been cold enough to need a blanket and a quilt , to hold Zosie in his arms without the sweat pouring off them both . |
| 26 | These often present a challenge that is hidden to everyone but you ! |
| 27 | But the decision could force the 22-year-old forward to seek a move when he returns from a groin injury in November . |
| 28 | Pius XII also blessed a rosary and gave it to him — when he returned to London , he placed it on his mantelpiece with other memorabilia . |
| 29 | Goals and objectives are similar in that both provide a direction and a target for company or departmental activities . |
| 30 | Now internally , internally within , that automatically generates a target that we want from that assignment . |