Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footballers are seen simultaneously as representatives of a club and its traditions , of a community and its collective sensibility and most importantly of a sport beloved by young and impressionable people . |
| 2 | You 're you 're all right for a hair brush then are you ? |
| 3 | We were doubtful as to whether Owen would lie still long enough for a back massage , but he surprised us by putting up with it for about ten minutes . |
| 4 | Fortunately , they decided they could bear each other 's company long enough for a farewell tour , starting next month , and also a valedictory album . |
| 5 | ‘ Angel , do n't worry so much about a country girl , ’ said his mother , anxious about her son 's state of mind . |
| 6 | So much for a weekend break on Alpha Centauri ! |
| 7 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 8 | Yes , but it could have worked much , much better in a standing room only venue such as Newcastle Polytechnic or The Mayfair . |
| 9 | Once Russia is a member of the International Monetary Fund , that will make it possible for Russia to receive sustantial assistance in cash to deal not only perhaps with a stabilisation fund but balance of payments support — which I personally suspect will be needed in the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | Where , for instance , an independent power generator will be permitted by Directive to plug into the grid of any Member State ( something , as we have seen , not actually proposed by the Commission at present ) , it will be able to do so only with a safety clearance from the appropriate ‘ home ’ authority . |
| 11 | It would n't be on walking much further to a bus stop somewhere else , especially in the winter when it 's raining and snowing . ’ |
| 12 | One was that Mr Yeltsin was Russia 's best hope — no plausible alternative leader has argued so unequivocally for a market economy , or seemed willing to trust the young reformers who will be needed to create it . |
| 13 | Third , the ‘ pinch point ’ at the entrance to St. Giles St. is a good idea in that it slows traffic intending to turn left off The Mound ; however , there is a similar problem at the top of Market St. , and a raised paved crossing there , perhaps also with a pedestrian crossing , would be an improvement . |
| 14 | Answer guide : Managers would be using it to plan future activity levels , order stocks , employ labour etc. whereas bankers are more interested in an overview of where the business is likely to go and perhaps also as a monitoring tool , although it is doubtful that such a level of sophistication is applied to the majority of enterprises . |
| 15 | For although it is clear that /ε/; raising is diffusing on a much broader social front than /a/ backing , the generalization still seems to hold true that it is those persons in the inner city for whom the vowel functions less clearly as a network marker who are the principal innovators in their own communities . |
| 16 | When she passed him the number of her room ( thinking no one else knew she had ) and left to await him , he remained in the ballroom drinking , and when I left at midnight he was still there looking bored and lonely , missing his live-in girlfriend Marie Lisa Volpelierre ( who not long after died so tragically in a riding accident ) . |
| 17 | One factor which will help stop Westland 's prison house shades from falling to dramatically onto users is that most authorities will move only cautiously towards a care management budgeting system , given the uncertainties which surround overall budgets for next year . |
| 18 | Flake or pellets can be ground down fine enough even for a dwarf cichlids using a coffee grinder . |
| 19 | Charles had been particularly annoyed about the toothlessness , she could tell , although he tried to conceal it : he had in fact been without his two front teeth that week , while having their thirty-year-old caps replaced , caps that marked a heroic accident long ago in a swimming pool in Sevenoaks . |
| 20 | I 'd seen long ago in a wild-life programme about |
| 21 | That is why the suggestion ‘ Why do n't you try it ? ’ works so well as a selling technique . |
| 22 | Deaf people did 16 per cent less well in a comprehension test than did hearing people , giving rise to three possibilities : that sign language is less efficient ; that deaf students are less knowledgeable and able to take in less information ; and that sign language interpreters are not efficient . |
| 23 | ‘ Ca n't say I do , but you must 98 remember I 'm only there in a freelance capacity . |
| 24 | This raises the possibility of an administrative role for Kenchester , perhaps initially as a pagus centre , and then later as a full civitas centre . |
| 25 | He pressed on and on , resting only briefly on a rock outcrop before continuing . |
| 26 | Just as a US Supreme Court Justice concluded for pornography , ‘ you know it when you see it , but you ca n't define it ’ , so too with a development strategy . |
| 27 | We could borrow one easily enough from a lifting vessel or salvage tug but the chances are high that he 'd know nothing about explosives . |
| 28 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 29 | It 's hit towards the halfway line , Alan the sole defender for Blackburn at the moment , he plays it to his right , forward it goes to now that 's a good ball down the far side of the field , plenty of er men available , 's one of them inside the penalty area , the cross was n't so good from and it 's gon na run harmlessly behind for a goal kick . |
| 30 | The signal produced by the photosensitive device depends on the level of illumination , which varies approximately linearly as a disc slot moves into alignment with the light source ( Fig. 7.3 ) . |