Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 0–2 ticks You are naturally a bit anxious about life — look again at the particular areas you ticked . |
| 2 | Cumber was appropriate also , I supposed , though Mr Young was n't cumbersome ; perhaps a shade heavy in personality , but not big , not awkward . |
| 3 | A trapdoor in 2e leads upwards to chamber 2f ; however , the wooden ladder set into the wall below it is obviously rotten and useless , so a skill such as Scale Sheer Surfaces or a Flight spell is necessary to reach the trapdoor . |
| 4 | He soldiered manfully through the salmon soufflé and the beef Wellington while Lewis on the lady 's other side put away a tumbler full of vodka poured from a half-bottle in his pocket . |
| 5 | Possibly a smell similar to pear drops will also be present on your dog 's breath . |
| 6 | He was also a man crazy about shooting . |
| 7 | If it 's stamina and feeling ‘ fitter ’ that you want then probably a sport such as badminton , squash or tennis will do the trick . |
| 8 | Bleath was clearly a man impatient of bureaucracy , anxious to get back to his lenses . |
| 9 | It is also an area rich in folklore and steeped in tradition . |
| 10 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |
| 11 | But even an issue such as camping can become rather central if it is of importance to one partner . |
| 12 | If , if you like the characteristics which you will show most of , and we 'll do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning , but the characteristics which you will show most of are one , that you are fairly gregarious person , you like being the , the salesman is a , a loner and be quite a lot more to life , so you 're fairly gregarious people , and even though there are degrees of it , you 're all fairly extrovert people as well , and those two characteristics do n't lend themselves very well to being organised . |
| 13 | These comprised a pork pie and some salami to stave off the munchies while I drove , a toothbrush and some toothpaste , and then a bottle each of tequila , lime juice and Asti Spumante for which I had plans . |
| 14 | Each landing was almost an inch deep in cartridge cases across which the thin track of dried blood still passed . |
| 15 | However , in abstract thinking it has always been our habit to assume the role of Ego perfectly isolated from spontaneity ; and even when in theory we have learned to distinguish the play-acting from real life , we are still liable to slip back into thinking as though the agent applying ‘ Be aware ’ were indeed an Ego unaffected by inclination veering with awareness . |
| 16 | Far from motivating nurses , PRP has tended to ‘ undermine and destabilise ’ what is essentially a job reliant on team spirit , says the report . |