Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 2 | The Protura differ from all other hemimetabolous insects in that the number of abdominal segments increases during post-embryonic development , the youngest instars having only eight segments and a telson . |
| 3 | ‘ To my mind , ’ she wrote , ‘ he has all the qualities of a leading man that the British film industry badly needs at this juncture : youth , good looks , a photogenic face , obviously alert intelligence and a trick of getting the maximum effect with the minimum of fuss . ’ |
| 4 | FIG. 1 Modelled percentage changes in the O 3 concentration as a function of latitude and altitude in July ( a ) and September ( b ) ; comparison is between the simulation including SO 2 injection and a control run with no SO 2 injection . |
| 5 | FIG. 3 Modelled percentage changes in the O 2 photolysis as a function of latitude and altitude in July ( a ) and September ( b ) ; comparison is between the simulation including SO 2 injection and a control run with no SO 2 injection . |
| 6 | Stockier than Morpurgo , with a less untroubled brow and a glare at the camera of barely bridled contempt , Ramsey Everett looked of the whole pack the one most prone to question their right to behave as they wished . |
| 7 | Like many of the Elphberg royal family , he had blue eyes , an unusually long straight nose and a lot of dark red hair . |
| 8 | He dropped into a bit of a snooze , which any giant might be pardoned for wanting after so much walking and a bit of eating , never mind a sup of mead . |
| 9 | All these reports were produced in a highly disciplined way and a catalogue was produced . |
| 10 | I now noted that the latter had on each hand only three fingers and a thumb , and only four toes on each foot , in the manner of the monkeys we had come across in another existence . |
| 11 | There were only three huts and a couple of three-walled structures that Isabel had taken for huts last night . |
| 12 | The lessons on the causes and remedies of worry were most beneficial and the psychology of using your mind in order to create a change in the body , which came through in most of the classes , helped to reduce the constant tensions in my mind , with the result that I am a much less tense person and a lot of my worries have just vanished . |
| 13 | In the vision of the Four Beasts in chapter 7 , Antiochus " changes the seasons and the law " and his rule will last " a time and times and half a time " ( 7.25 ) : perhaps three years and a half . |
| 14 | They do not realise that to make a discovery of some magnitude requires not only great ability and a bit of luck but also a considerable investment of time and effort in mastering a demanding discipline . |
| 15 | At last a pick-up truck came bumping up the track , containing Giovanna 's fat and apparently unsatisfactory husband and a detachment of villagers , including the old men , Molly was sure , who had sat on the wall by the petrol pumps mocking her . |
| 16 | About erm eighteen months , two years ago a report was published , the Cockroft Report , this is the same Sir Wilfred Cockroft who 's chairing the Examination erm Council , which looked into the teaching of mathematics at all level in the country and it was an extremely good report and a lot has followed from it . |
| 17 | There is a long-term plan to upgrade the works , which provides only primary treatment and a period of settlement before discharging effluent into the Dee through a short pipe . |
| 18 | ONLY ARCH professionalism and a lack of clean underwear dragged me home after Chicago . |
| 19 | Whereas Dysart had the bearing and features of an accomplished thirty-year-old , Ockleton lacked only short trousers and a catapult to pass for a skylarking schoolboy . |
| 20 | There are only five pubs and a couple of discos in Lothian Road itself , though there are others in neighbouring streets . |
| 21 | The sheer beauty aside — the course was a purple fire of heather in August — the principal features are a constantly changing tempo and a string of par-4s under 370 yards . |
| 22 | And most of this catastrophe was avoidable ; there was no inevitability , only wilful arrogance and a disregard of humanity . |
| 23 | His brass-faced clocks had only one hand and a calendar because , in the years before bus and train timetables and television programme times , all the Dalesmen needed to know was the hour and the day . |
| 24 | He was facing the man in the lit room with only thin wood and a lot of glass between them and the man was still moving , the blue-black automatic squat and ugly in his fist . |
| 25 | Only two men and a woman , who sat at a centre table , were not at work , though the woman had a piece of sewing in her hands . |
| 26 | While the mass of the India Office was similar to that of the War Department with its own internal courts , the Foreign Office was considerably shallower , being only two rooms and a corridor deep throughout . |
| 27 | Home now consisted of only two rooms and a kitchen , but fortunately we were allowed half of the attractive garden as well . |
| 28 | The journey took only two nights and a day ; previously it had always taken three days , since the train stopped for the night at Dire Dawa and the Awash Station . |
| 29 | could , with somewhat sparser hair and a change |
| 30 | They inhabited houses which , in the building boom organised under the strict and uncontrolled power of the Mafia , laughably resembled English houses , with pitched roofs and fireplaces — in a temperature which rarely fell below thirty degrees and a humidity comparable to Brazil 's . |