Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is certainly , not so much a race problem between pupils , but there is a great problem here at the moment with the congregation , shall we say , of black pupils . |
| 2 | It was very much a revenge match for White — Spijkers had beaten him for a bronze in the Seoul Olympics , though then White was injured . |
| 3 | Gumbet is very much a daytime sort of place and a great compliment to Bodrum . |
| 4 | ‘ Compounding the problem is that , compared with German manufacturing , we 're still very much a sweatshop sort of industry . |
| 5 | I know that my hon. Friend will recognise that this case is very much a management matter for BR , and the decision to dismiss Mr. Brand was entirely BR 's . |
| 6 | It was very much a family restaurant with children , teenagers and grandparents all eating together and was clearly somewhere to which the locals repaired for a weekend dinner . |
| 7 | King 's X are very much a cult band at present , but ‘ It 's Love ’ and ‘ I 'll Never Get Tired Of You ’ are potential smash hits . |
| 8 | King 's X are very much a cult band at present , but ‘ It 's Love ’ and ‘ I 'll Never Get Tired Of You ’ are potential smash hits . |
| 9 | Within most sample surveys of visitors , data on the size and composition of groups ( eg a family group of size 4 ) are collected . |
| 10 | This investigation may be changed to suit local circumstances eg a bus timetable from Manhattan to the Bronx may be used ! |
| 11 | In pure marketing terms , the concept is basically a bedroom product in association with a ‘ host brand ’ restaurant , rather than being part of a hotel . |
| 12 | The document is basically a briefing document in order that every piece of information erm that is available to the police is then able to be passed on to the officers who are actually going to do the job . |
| 13 | Example 104 is taken from Percy Scholes 's Oxford Companion to Music ( 8th edn ) , where it is quoted as music which ‘ abandons all pretence of key in any strand whatever ’ , and is therefore completely atonal : However , far from being atonal , the upper part is very clearly in G minor — ; G being merely a substitution note for A , on which it resolves ( an octave lower than usual ) . |
| 14 | The British parliament , by contrast , just reiterated the view that the Council should be merely a meeting place for discussion and ideas , while in Scandinavia the recommendations were not even debated . |
| 15 | Wothorpe House , because of its ruinous state , its unusual design and its proximity to the site of Wothorpe nunnery , is also a victim of such mythology , but it was merely a dower house for widows of the earls and marquesses at Burghley . |
| 16 | It puts perhaps a kind face on things : but sometimes families do just get into dreadful muddles , with no one doing anything particularly awful . |
| 17 | By volunteering to help in follow up activities planned for the autumn — perhaps a weeknight club for children , nurture groups for children and/or adults ; we sha n't know exactly until after the club has finished . |
| 18 | The new Pedullas are attracting a lot of interest ; perhaps a 5-string Thunderbass at £1795 … ? |
| 19 | The class started , and I was in the middle of reading aloud a prose passage from Galdós when the door opened and in walked the fair-haired god I had glimpsed in the gallery . |
| 20 | If the vendor shareholders are willing to accept this form of deferred consideration , with the debentures carrying less than an arm's-length interest rate , there is obviously a funding advantage to Newco . |
| 21 | Any variations in production of 14 C are rapidly distributed throughout the atmosphere , so a calibration curve of radiocarbon ‘ age ’ versus calendar age for one material and one geographical region will serve as a global calibration curve . |
| 22 | So a fee increase for dentists would break with that . |
| 23 | Sour Ltd bought 40% of the Ordinary Shares of Crowt Ltd many years ago , when the capital structure of Crowt Ltd consisted of 200,000 Ordinary Shares of £0.50 each fully paid less a debit balance of £5,000 on Profit and Loss Account , its only reserve . |
| 24 | Previously , Relcom had only a dial-up line to Finland and ad hoc arrangements to complement it . |
| 25 | Yes it 's only a goal kick to Shrewsbury Town . |
| 26 | Walsh said : ‘ I was just a nobody and it was only a telephone call from Oldham coach Peter Tunks that persuaded me to apply . |
| 27 | They had also made their social entrance at a time when television — so often blamed as another demoralising force — was only a minority pursuit in Britain , with no more than two million viewing licences in 1953 ; and when the commercial TV channel , which was most commonly alleged to be lowering standards , had not even been created . |
| 28 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 29 | That would be the case if the settlor , for instance , set up a trust under which the settlor had only a life interest in possession : monies spent on trustee expenses may be assessed on the settlor under Part XV of TA 1988 . |
| 30 | There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him . |