Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footballers are seen simultaneously as representatives of a club and its traditions , of a community and its collective sensibility and most importantly of a sport beloved by young and impressionable people . |
| 2 | You 're you 're all right for a hair brush then are you ? |
| 3 | We were doubtful as to whether Owen would lie still long enough for a back massage , but he surprised us by putting up with it for about ten minutes . |
| 4 | Fortunately , they decided they could bear each other 's company long enough for a farewell tour , starting next month , and also a valedictory album . |
| 5 | ‘ Angel , do n't worry so much about a country girl , ’ said his mother , anxious about her son 's state of mind . |
| 6 | So much for a weekend break on Alpha Centauri ! |
| 7 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 8 | But you 'll find them graced with looks which would complement a modern apartment or blend in self-confidently with a farmhouse kitchen . |
| 9 | Yes , but it could have worked much , much better in a standing room only venue such as Newcastle Polytechnic or The Mayfair . |
| 10 | Once Russia is a member of the International Monetary Fund , that will make it possible for Russia to receive sustantial assistance in cash to deal not only perhaps with a stabilisation fund but balance of payments support — which I personally suspect will be needed in the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | We sat down together at a café table and went through some of them together . |
| 12 | WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon . |
| 13 | So I 've put us all in together as a group entry — sorry , Rainbow , not you , bubbeleh , you 're under the age limit — and I have costumes for you three girls upstairs . ’ |
| 14 | Where , for instance , an independent power generator will be permitted by Directive to plug into the grid of any Member State ( something , as we have seen , not actually proposed by the Commission at present ) , it will be able to do so only with a safety clearance from the appropriate ‘ home ’ authority . |
| 15 | Reading this , I could have been forgiven for conjuring up a picture of the Queen Mother settling down comfortably by a television set at Sandringham , perhaps a daughter at her side , a corgi at feet and refreshment to hand , basking in the glow of my birthday tribute to her , and making a mental note to instruct the Private secretary in the morning to send a line of thanks to those concerned . |
| 16 | It would n't be on walking much further to a bus stop somewhere else , especially in the winter when it 's raining and snowing . ’ |
| 17 | One was that Mr Yeltsin was Russia 's best hope — no plausible alternative leader has argued so unequivocally for a market economy , or seemed willing to trust the young reformers who will be needed to create it . |
| 18 | Third , the ‘ pinch point ’ at the entrance to St. Giles St. is a good idea in that it slows traffic intending to turn left off The Mound ; however , there is a similar problem at the top of Market St. , and a raised paved crossing there , perhaps also with a pedestrian crossing , would be an improvement . |
| 19 | Answer guide : Managers would be using it to plan future activity levels , order stocks , employ labour etc. whereas bankers are more interested in an overview of where the business is likely to go and perhaps also as a monitoring tool , although it is doubtful that such a level of sophistication is applied to the majority of enterprises . |
| 20 | Veritas has arranged to support Destiny with a cut-down version of its file system dubbed the Journaling File System and aimed at the desktop : the full product will come along later as a server upgrade . |
| 21 | He puts it down carefully like a pet dog . |
| 22 | For although it is clear that /ε/; raising is diffusing on a much broader social front than /a/ backing , the generalization still seems to hold true that it is those persons in the inner city for whom the vowel functions less clearly as a network marker who are the principal innovators in their own communities . |
| 23 | When she passed him the number of her room ( thinking no one else knew she had ) and left to await him , he remained in the ballroom drinking , and when I left at midnight he was still there looking bored and lonely , missing his live-in girlfriend Marie Lisa Volpelierre ( who not long after died so tragically in a riding accident ) . |
| 24 | One factor which will help stop Westland 's prison house shades from falling to dramatically onto users is that most authorities will move only cautiously towards a care management budgeting system , given the uncertainties which surround overall budgets for next year . |
| 25 | Flake or pellets can be ground down fine enough even for a dwarf cichlids using a coffee grinder . |
| 26 | A children 's party will go down well with a background fragrance of bergamot , orange or lemon , and perhaps a touch of geranium . |
| 27 | Charles had been particularly annoyed about the toothlessness , she could tell , although he tried to conceal it : he had in fact been without his two front teeth that week , while having their thirty-year-old caps replaced , caps that marked a heroic accident long ago in a swimming pool in Sevenoaks . |
| 28 | I 'd seen long ago in a wild-life programme about |
| 29 | That is why the suggestion ‘ Why do n't you try it ? ’ works so well as a selling technique . |
| 30 | Deaf people did 16 per cent less well in a comprehension test than did hearing people , giving rise to three possibilities : that sign language is less efficient ; that deaf students are less knowledgeable and able to take in less information ; and that sign language interpreters are not efficient . |