Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although two thirds of Oxfordshire teachers consider that the scheme has been useful in producing proposals for change in schools , the actual changes claimed are rather nebulous and a quarter of all teachers are unsure as to whether their review has led to any changes at all . |
| 2 | The " d " and the " w " of Andrew are somewhat different and a pen stroke joining the " w " of Andrew to the capital " 5 " of " Stavanger " is also different . |
| 3 | Swords which affect psychology are extremely useful and a Sword of Fortitude is a must for any Orc or Goblin army , as it makes the bearer and the unit he is with immune to fear , terror and panic . |
| 4 | Indeed , nearly one in five of all temporary workers are under 20 and a quarter of all teenagers in the labour force work on a temporary basis . |
| 5 | His idea could help meet the common criticism that turbines are both noisy and a blot on the landscape . |
| 6 | During the summer months our casual trade has been fairly steady and a number of these casuals are now regular customers . |
| 7 | ‘ You are now thirteen and a half … ’ |
| 8 | I 'm only ten and a half stone |
| 9 | A Whitehall spokesman said the investigation would be extremely thorough and a decision should be ready by the time Yousefi comes up for parole after a third of his sentence . |
| 10 | Oversights can be extremely costly and a microcomputer model carefully constructed will not allow oversights to occur . |
| 11 | A study of simple programmes that encourage oscillation between growth and decline can be both instructive and a spur to the imagination . |
| 12 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 13 | After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women . |
| 14 | he should be about eight and a half , he 's rescued . |
| 15 | Even in the third quarter , he says things will be pretty tight and a number of accounts will have to wait before they get them on their desk tops . |
| 16 | ‘ It would be too expensive and a waste of time , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Up to that point , reviews had been consistently agreeable and a touch of dissent was long overdue , if only to put the previous flattering write-ups into perspective . |
| 18 | Instead we 've had limp-wristed pardoners , a well paid return after a couple of years and now the insult of Johnson being only 10 and a bit seconds from another Olympic final . |
| 19 | Rehearsals were nearly complete and a replacement for her was out of the question at such short notice . |
| 20 | It was a good day and Svolvær looked rather a special place , but we were now tired and a campsite was priority . |
| 21 | The servants had taken pity on Alexandra , old Elsie especially who had nursed her as a baby and who now kept the linen cupboard , and helped in the kitchen ; and she had learned that her mother had married beneath her , far beneath , but that being over thirty and a cripple , she was , in a sense , lucky even to get James Abbott , if a man was what she wanted besides all she had already , castle and land and sheep . |
| 22 | The farms are principally arable and a ewe flock produces early lambs . |
| 23 | I think those things , and group meetings and crêches , are completely boring and a waste of time . |
| 24 | Indeed , as the majority of consumer " buyers " are women , a woman 's point of view is most valuable and a woman 's capacity for detail , at least in my opinion and that of many employers , is an eminently valuable asset in work where detail and exactness are essential . |
| 25 | It is wholly inappropriate and a slur on parents ' intelligence to imply , as your correspondent does , that coercion and possibly intimidation have played a part in achieving the present levels of support for change . |
| 26 | It 's only one and a half . |
| 27 | I play Elmo and he 's only two and a half so it means I can play like that . |
| 28 | She ca n't half talk , she 's only two and a half but aye and when she sets off that 's it . |
| 29 | Now sailing encompasses windsurfing , dinghy sailing and ocean cruising and if you 've got millions of pounds to spend you can enter the Fastnet or the Admiral 's Cup but whatever level or whatever part of sailing you want to take up , the basic techniques are best learnt in a dinghy or sail boat because it 's less expensive and a lot more simple to operate and that 's the purpose of this video to learn the most basic techniques as quickly as possible and to be at one with the wind . |
| 30 | Which which is why really at that th for the development funding they did the did n't particularly want I I P supporting because it is so structured and a lot of it is on a plate in a sense . |