Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is artistically total tosh and merely a vehicle for an imagination nowhere close to reaching puberty . |
| 2 | About one-half of all farms in Britain now employ only one farm-worker and quite a few , in fact , employ none at all ( the work being done by family members ) . |
| 3 | With just one board and maybe a couple of different size sails anyone from eight to eighty can get out there and have a go . |
| 4 | Whereas here we 're we 're selling a erm a very much more prestigious item and also a much more long term er commitment on both sides . |
| 5 | Known as London Fields , Angela and Matthew Flowers had intended to use it for storage , but the appeal of the space suggested a more imaginative solution and so a proportion will be employed for changing exhibitions or for more permanent installations by gallery artists . |
| 6 | His message got through : Laniel approved a proposal to send a Socialist Deputy , Alain Savary , to open up preliminary talks , but Bidault , now Foreign Minister and still a hawk , refused : ‘ Ho Chi Minh is giving in ; do not support him by this contact . ’ |
| 7 | I was pleased to see that the bathroom was fitted with a perfectly conventional door and even a bolt ! |
| 8 | It needed a really sharp edge and just a light brushing with the cutter to form some of these parts . |
| 9 | From this internal knowledge of Belfast English we can conclude that the speaker who says [ ku : ] for queue is using a careful style strategy to avoid the palatalized segment ( see my comments on avoidance of stigma in chapter 2.6 , above ) , which is a strongly regional marker and also a marker of older male speech . |
| 10 | I wore my new boots in the snow when I was abroad this Christmas and now a white mark has spoiled the leather . |
| 11 | This one would flatter anyone 's collection , and with some careful customisation ( a new set of machines to replace the notoriously poor Kluson Sealfast tuners , a top-class refret with fractionally higher wire and perhaps a modern P100 humbucking pickup slotted beneath the original P90 cover ) it would enhance anyone 's working stable , too . |
| 12 | Yet neither club commands very great support and even a Second Division Hartlepool or Darlington perhaps struggling at the foot of the division would be unlikely to attract more than 56,000 per game . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've had a very good life and quite a long one . |
| 14 | Over the years the OCU became a truly cosmopolitan empire and hardly a month went by without a new uniform or flying suit making an appearance . |
| 15 | Erm , you know , there 's a very nice cottage and just a short walk down the road you 're at the se at the sea . |
| 16 | They can be sure of a very genuine welcome and also a special place in our prayers . |