Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loretta was able to refuse , mindful of a 10 a.m. lecture on Monday , when Bridget added : ‘ I 'll tell you who else is going to be there . |
| 2 | This month sees the birth of a new bi-monthly publication for the hotel and catering industry ; one which more adequately reflects the new image of the HCIMA . |
| 3 | The incident is a more extreme example of a common enough practice in the development of a new popular style for royalty . |
| 4 | In particular , the introduction by Mike Mogridge of a sponsored Pro-Am Tournament in 1980 is of special significance , raising over the next seven years over £20,000 for charity and bringing many interesting people to the Club — Ian Botham , David Lloyd , Ray Reardon , to mention a few . |
| 5 | this is a very ancient snail with a flat nearly disc like form , with fine growth lines and occasional courser knobs . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I 'm demanding and chauvinistic , but I 've finally got someone with a good enough sense of humour to be able to cope with that very well , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Likely to meet the Scottish club are Yorkshire 's Ilkley , who re-confirmed their serious intention to succeed in 1992 by beating lowly-placed Barnard Castle School , and then following up this home victory a few days later with a 3–0 away success in a delayed fixture against Topspin Darlington . |
| 8 | A sequence of mild winters with low deer mortality and declining competition from sheep have contributed to this increase , but the main cause is the consistent failure of many estates to balance the number of stags shot with a large enough cull of hinds — a labour-intensive process with small returns from the sale of venison . |
| 9 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 10 | Charles Frederick was the odd one out in this respect — his feet were far too itchy to allow him to settle down into any sort of domesticity , and he would prove the fact in a dramatic enough way by sailing off around the world as soon as the opportunity presented itself . |
| 11 | The advantage of running a competition is that it should be cost effective if the cost of the prizes is spread over a large enough number of entrants . |
| 12 | ‘ Andrew 's gone to a six o'clock movie with some mates , then they 'll grab hamburgers somewhere , and the twins are staying the night at a friend 's . ’ |
| 13 | The van doors swung open and as Antinou 's lads eased us out we were treated to a 6 a.m. view of Clapton . |
| 14 | Did the Unit never in fact settle on a simple enough statement of its function to entrust to journalists ? |
| 15 | It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time . |
| 16 | All meetings were boring to him unless the participants could talk in depth and unless the debate was by a small enough number of people for personal friendships to be fostered . |
| 17 | Gina put her thoughts into words and was rewarded by a rueful downwards tug of his beautifully chiselled mouth . |