Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gumbet is very much a daytime sort of place and a great compliment to Bodrum . |
| 2 | ‘ Compounding the problem is that , compared with German manufacturing , we 're still very much a sweatshop sort of industry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Within most sample surveys of visitors , data on the size and composition of groups ( eg a family group of size 4 ) are collected . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him . |
| 12 | I would think so , yes I think , I would think so because the bedroom suite , the bed upstairs er of that er suite is quite a good quality bed , you know , it 's only a spring mattress of course it 's not a , it 's not a box thing like we 'd have today , I mean , what we have in our other room , I 've always intended to change it , but never got round to it , but it er just had a spring mattress , but it was good quality of its time |
| 13 | This allows for a continuous stream of models and prototypes : the USSR does not face NATO 's proverbial problem of holding together a design team in peacetime . |
| 14 | A vital feature of this project is that it was not merely an action project with research added on , but action designed so that it could be researched . |
| 15 | I have realised that I am no longer a spring chicken by tour standards — 28 in February — and the wrinkles are starting to appear , so , to prolong my career and my enthusiasm for the game , I am cutting down . |
| 16 | I understand that the Government propose to introduce shortly a money resolution in association with the Bill . |
| 17 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 18 | For me it is just a childhood memory of noise and confusion . |
| 19 | These exhibits were mostly just single figures , not set out in any kind of tableau , but isolated in their stage clothes with just a name plate for company . |
| 20 | ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope . |
| 21 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 22 | At first there was nothing , just a background hum of ironisation in the soil . |
| 23 | It was , moreover , generally a patronage source for government itself , and no ordinary burgh or county member of parliament would have much concern with it , though George Dempster of Dunnichen , when member of parliament for the Dundee district , thought it worth his while to attempt an approach to Lord Cassillis , who had the right of presentation to the chair of humanity in the University of St. Andrews , to seek that appointment for political advantage . |
| 24 | When he joined Middlesex in 1885 , ‘ Stoddy ’ was already a rugby player of note , playing three-quarter for Blackheath , and was capped 10 times by England . |
| 25 | Gradually a scaffolding type of structure emerged . |
| 26 | There is still a village shop with newsagency , and a post office . |
| 27 | The apparent reliance of industry and commerce on the flip-chart is still a standing joke in education , but perhaps there is a lesson to be learnt here and my office wall may soon sprout one ! |
| 28 | You need a more versatile design , more a boat sort of thing , for British conditions . |
| 29 | It was once a country remedy for rheumatism , using the fresh green tops made into a tea , and Culpeper recommended it as an excellent medicine for the " quinsy … to gargle it , when boiled with figs " . |
| 30 | It is so easy to forget to pay those regular bills such as the rates and mortgage , and even more so those once a year commitments like club subscriptions and insurance premiums . |