Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , in choppy water it is worth sacrificing your angle to the wind for a little more speed to punch through the waves . |
| 2 | All her family , like they all just drink tea with a very little drop of milk in it , and she always drank it with a little drop of milk , and then , she decided not to drink it with milk at all . |
| 3 | Others wander slowly into the ring of light with a little more awareness . |
| 4 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 5 | ‘ You could put it to the test in a very few minutes , my lord . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make the investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive and dangerous halt in a very few years . |
| 7 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive halt in a very few years . |
| 8 | In the main text explanation , the distinction between sounds and spelling is mentioned and so it seems a pity that the obvious procedure , of explaining phonetics in a little more detail , was not followed . |
| 9 | Socialism does not mean the equal distribution of misery ; but simply the desire for a little more wealth , a little more justice all around . ’ |
| 10 | But before we look at that we must first turn to examine the record in a little more detail . |
| 11 | He based this conclusion on a very few individuals who married within their peer group in the kibbutz and were found to have entered the kibbutz during their childhood and usually after the age of six . |
| 12 | I now regard my own receding hair with a little more hope . |
| 13 | Give me credit for a little more finesse than that . ’ |
| 14 | Timmy the catcher mouse was a very long name for a very little cat so everyone called him Tim . |
| 15 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 16 | Again , working with very wet paint onto dry paper , I apply successive washes of burnt umber and Prussian blue , burnt sienna and yellow ochre with a little more care , pulling diagonally downwards from top right to bottom left . |
| 17 | Again , working with very wet paint onto dry paper , I apply successive washes of burnt umber and Prussian blue , burnt sienna and yellow ochre with a little more care , pulling diagonally downwards from top right to bottom left . |
| 18 | ( Note : do n't be tempted to use filter floss as a gravel tidy substitute as it will become fully clogged and impenetrable to water in a very few months . ) |
| 19 | He had a genius for explaining a work of art in a very few words . |
| 20 | If such a system is adopted , it may keep TV viewers happy for a few years , but it will prove a handicap to the growth of information technology and a source of discontent within a very few years . |
| 21 | As regards malicious referrals , what seemed to be the case in a very few instances was that at least some of the allegations had substance to them and were worthy of investigation , but in discussion with the parents it seemed possible that the referrer might be using the allegation to progress some dispute with them . |
| 22 | The sole qualification for obtaining a vehicle is that you receive mobility supplement for a long enough period to cover the length of the agreement . |
| 23 | The broad conclusion must be that the majority of owners of small parcels lived within a radius of a very few miles . |
| 24 | This is now the form he prefers — ‘ you can say a lot in a poem with a very few words ’ — and he writes ‘ whenever I feel in the mood ’ . |
| 25 | The ‘ benefit ’ was in fact a deferred payment , which both tied a player to a single club and was of no value to those who through loss of form or injury were not able to serve the county for a long enough period . |
| 26 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 27 | Outright sales were down on what was a pretty dim quarter a year ago , but at least the headline figures enabled John Akers to make his characteristically jaunty statement with a little more justification than of late . |
| 28 | The Council permitted the laity to communicate with the cup on a very few occasions . |
| 29 | Before the 1850s this had been a problem of a relatively few families ; in some countries , such as Germany , of hardly any . |
| 30 | If societies wish to attract more members and cash , they may be well advised to treat the general public with a little more courtesy , even those who are only ‘ armchair ’ enthusiasts . |