Example sentences of "[noun pl] a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you try to leave the songs a little bit open , or you change the set list and give yourself something fresh and new for the evening — anything that 's possible to try to avoid getting bored ! |
| 2 | Spears are probably a good buy , the extra fighting rank helps to stiffen the Goblins a little bit , and shields are well worthwhile too . |
| 3 | Garlic tomatoes beefstake tomatoes Le Roule/1 garlic and herb cheese breadcrumbs a little oil Halve tomatoes , scoop out pips and fill gaps with cheese . |
| 4 | Could I tell your listeners a little bit about the good news that 's in the budget , because we 've talked we 've focused on the minuses so far , but there 's a lot of plusses as well . |
| 5 | After an abortive attempt to force Shamil into the open in 1845 , Vorontsov combined a policy of gradually strangling the rebellious highlanders with an approach to civil administration which allowed natives a little room for manoeuvre . |
| 6 | What I , I intend to do is to , I think it would be unfortunate if , as the result of a major development which is actually funding this new junction , the County Council then has to pick up the bill for other ameliorating effects a little bit further on the network . |
| 7 | I mean I may be able to get some money from my parents a little bit |
| 8 | Well we like erm obviously to keep the ball alive erm I guess that Oxford may , I do n't know whether Ray would agree with me , may play the set pieces a little bit . |
| 9 | Was Crook Labour Coun Olive Brown 's emphasis on the need for young blood and new ideas a little sideswipe or just a straight forward plea for members ? |
| 10 | we should start ringing alarms bells a little bit . |
| 11 | She dabs a little powder on top , and stands back to admire the effect . |
| 12 | Now , today , I 'm going to break away from the notes a little bit , cos I think , there 's so many things you could bring , we could bring in , and I think some of the points made in the notes will naturally come out in our discussion . |
| 13 | After a few minutes a little flame blossomed at the far corner . |
| 14 | Avatars , made out of their own perverse essence , would hook into the spirits of vulnerable psykers , into greedy , heedlessly ambitious mortals , and would offer those dupes a little power — playing them like living puppets on intangible strings — before twisting them into tools of evil and eventually consuming them . |
| 15 | Before it happened I had reached a point where at last I was earning enough money to make things a little bit easier , and then suddenly I found myself having to start all over again with wrecked finances , a new relationship and living in digs . |
| 16 | And the law does things a little bit differently to what some people imagine . |
| 17 | She did her best to try and in to make things a little bit more er interesting and she did start a tennis club up , which was nice because there was nothing at all before then . |
| 18 | Now obviously this can happen a bit , but I do n't think , on the whole it happens very much , at least certainly not in a way that matters erm I do n't think it does matter if people change things a little bit , because erm but on the whole people are doing things in the way that they 're doing them erm because they 've got accustomed to doing them that way and that 's the way that they 've planned it , and that 's the way that it comes out as a result of all of those pressures that there are on them . |
| 19 | For those who care about such things a little bleeper has just come onto the market to enable you to check that you are following the two-second rule that the police recommend . |
| 20 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 21 | Now I hope you 're paying attention because later , next lesson I 'm going to give you a little test on these dates a little listening quiz and if you get full marks on that then you get a house point for it . |
| 22 | However , " he added unexpectedly , " we 're going to bend the regulations a little bit and let you see your children . " |
| 23 | TV chiefs are set to give viewers a little love in the morning . |
| 24 | ALTHOUGH YOU would n't think it if you watched it , TV-AM , the commercial breakfast television station , started off with grand plans to offer viewers a little science with their cornflakes . |
| 25 | In the trees a little wind dies away . |
| 26 | Well I do n't know whether it 's good enough for a recorder , but erm I I the ends a little bit because I was rushed to get her so |
| 27 | The men also look very fine in their long curly wigs ( even if it takes their partners a little while to get used to them ) . |
| 28 | But we used to en I used to enjoy going to it , as I say until I got older and I wanted to sort of stretch my wings a little bit and and I did other things . |
| 29 | And we took mushrooms a little bit too much . |
| 30 | We positioned it so that it faced away from the doorway , to avoid draughts and to give the future inhabitants a little privacy . |