Example sentences of "a [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was , in fact , not too big a problem : Cracow had a 10pm curfew , and was in any case ‘ dead ’ after 9pm , she said She did try the odd night club and cinema , and was surprised to find English films with Polish sub-titles . |
| 2 | Moreover Europeanism is often the consequence of dissatisfaction with one 's own political system , a rather defeatist , not to say appeasement-like , attitude which often displays what one commentator has called ‘ a peculiar combination of self righteousness and self hatred ’ . |
| 3 | This is much less often commented upon , probably because he mentions it in a rather throwaway fashion , losing it in a section almost entirely devoted to the argument that noblemen should receive the same punishments as people of the lower orders . |
| 4 | And that is , when , I ca n't remember what it 's called , and erm when the sex cells are made exactly half of an individual 's genes go into each , and when sex cells er come together in a fertilized exactly half of each parent 's genes are fitted together , so that 's completely fair , well almost completely fair , because there are a few genes outside the nucleus that only get they 're , they 're in a rather minority . |
| 5 | A rather kitsch ceramic stool in the form of an elephant wearing a howdah is the chief image in a couple . |
| 6 | The structure plans tended to be based on a survey — analysis — plan approach which required a rather determinist view of the issues which they examined . ’ |
| 7 | I was n't a particularly happy person at the time ; lonely , in a rather dead-end job and with few personal relationships . |
| 8 | Cricket is the other major sporting interest of first generation Caribbeans — understandably enough in view of the popularity of that sport in the West Indies — but , of course , in the UK , it is a rather club oriented , many would say middle-class , sport , access to which is narrowly circumscribed . |
| 9 | And that 's a rather sort of formal blouse . |
| 10 | As she watched , it formed itself into a menacingly parody of his smile . |
| 11 | The system has proved a remarkably cost effective way of ensuring that people are not appointed to consultant posts unless they have reached appropriate levels of training and experience . |
| 12 | I believe that we achieve this very successfully , and when you bear in mind the pressure under which the Magistracy have been in recent times , with erm industrial action , demonstrations , which have brought them to the forefront of the attention , I think it 's a remarkably achievement that the Magistrates have come through this with the public in general terms satisfied with the performance of Magistrates in the discharge of these very onerous functions . |
| 13 | So , a bigger church was needed to cater for the rapidly increasing numbers , and a most un-lamb like argument over whether they should extend or move to a new site raged for six years . |
| 14 | When it was time for the newly-weds to say goodbye , Anna behaved in a most un-Romany manner by flinging her arms about Seb and kissing him . |
| 15 | All that you require is a separate breeding tank , facilities to provide live foods of a small-enough size for the new fry , some high protein fry foods , various nets , egg disinfectants , and sundries . |
| 16 | The programming side of IT has also been a weakly child . |
| 17 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 18 | His landlady , Penny ( a slatternly version of Odysseus 's Penelope ) , treats Sya as a substitute for her missing soldier-husband , while her lodger Burt , a footloose unemployed actor , yearns to swap his decadent native land for the iron certainties of Iran . |
| 19 | For these reasons the inevitable defeat of the " United Front " and of Communist affiliation by a predominantly trade-union vote did little to deter the " Unity Campaign " which grew in direct defiance of the Edinburgh decisions . |
| 20 | In specimens from normal or alcoholic patients , expression of Lewis antigens was mainly in small bile ducts and showed a predominantly luminal pattern , while in the cholestatic disease groups , expression was mainly cytoplasmic and was seen in small and large ducts ( Fig 1(C) and ( D ) ) . |
| 21 | Where there is a predominantly yin landscape , the favourable site would be one which had yang characteristics , such as Glastonbury Tor , or the sacred aboriginal site of Ayers Rock in Australia , both prominent features rising out of a flat plain . |
| 22 | Though most rural settlements practised a predominantly subsistence economy , they needed certain goods and commodities from elsewhere which they could not provide themselves , and they were usually dependent on and subsidiary to somewhere else in terms of ownership , administration , and religious provision . |
| 23 | A diagram can be used to depict the links between settlements and the various land uses which have been discussed , together with the possibility of distant resources , in a predominantly subsistence economy ( Fig. 59 ) . |
| 24 | As a predominantly passenger line , the L & NWR had more locos and more passenger carriages than its contemporaries . |
| 25 | Here a predominantly grassland habitat was converted to a predominantly arable one in a very limited period after 1945 , primarily due to a Government policy of encouraging cereal growing . |
| 26 | We can quote one as saying ‘ We see it as giving a distinctive edge to our marketing image amongst a predominantly business clientele . ’ |
| 27 | That 's a worst case scenario . |
| 28 | I 've been arranging a little get-together . |
| 29 | His looming presence utterly cowed Rickie who whined something about only wanting to play Ellen a little night music , and that he had not meant any harm , and what was a guy supposed to be doing on this boat anyway ? |
| 30 | The painting by H.T. Wells RA depicts HEADBURY QUARRY a little west of Dancing Ledge but the view of Tilly Whim early in 19th century would have been much the same . |