Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I will I 'll stick that in for a few grand . |
| 2 | No they have n't got that in for a little while . |
| 3 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 4 | Erm I mean we 'll put that down as a third reserve . |
| 5 | We would bring all that together in a strategic authority , which would not be dictated to by Whitehall and the mandarins down here . |
| 6 | He has two VCs , one from each of the two cameras , and he 'd like to pare this down to a 5 min promo . |
| 7 | Since the election , officials on both sides of the Atlantic have toned this down to a special envoy , one that would be on a fact-finding mission . |
| 8 | My 1979 two and a quarter diesel has been leaking oil from around the fuel pump and I had put this down to a leaky gasket . |
| 9 | You could always fill this in at a later date , there 's |
| 10 | Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories . |
| 11 | Faced with the two conflicting bids the Department of Trade and Industry decided that the agreed merger between Imperial and UB should be referred to the Monopolies and Merger Commission ( MMC ) , as the combined company would hold over 40 per cent of the snack food market — this together with a similar share of the market held by Nabisco would create a duopolistic situation in the market . |
| 12 | Terry Hands 's direction whips all this along at a fast pace . |
| 13 | However commonsense has prevailed and in Re Transatlantic Life Assurance Slade J. felt able to hold that ‘ the wording … is wide enough in its terms to empower the court to order the deletion of some only of a registered shareholder 's shares . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ How much difference would it make if you cleared this away for a few minutes — that 's all ? ’ persisted Huy . |
| 15 | We will develop this further at a later stage . |
| 16 | The Ulster Branch recognise the situation — it only happens like this once in a blue moon — but finding an answer is n't easy . |
| 17 | In preparing particular sections or blocks of work for classes or groups of pupils which include visually handicapped children it can be useful to code in a mark when drafting the programme to indicate the need for a piece of specific equipment to be available , and check this quickly on a daily basis ( for example , closed circuit television tape recorder ; overhead projector ) . |
| 18 | They usually help one another more in a dangerous situation . |
| 19 | For the next century or so , the county was relatively free of French harassment , but the situation worsened considerably after 1360 when a French fleet burnt Winchelsea and followed this up with a regular series of raids on the coast . |
| 20 | For instance , she helped by letter a Lancashire mill lad seeking advice on the use of his few square feet of soil ( it seems to have been an attic window box in Rochdale ) and followed this up with a postal package of plants , bulbs , and pebbles to complete his project . |
| 21 | He followed this up by a brief speech about his poor old mother , God bless her sweet soul , and ended by singing the first few verses of Onward , Christian Soldiers , in a light , pleasing tenor . |
| 22 | I was told all this later by a good friend of mine . |
| 23 | PaT hope to do this partly by a Private Members Bill in the autumn which will : |
| 24 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 25 | Having said this now about a hostile environment . |
| 26 | Joining these two , Mr Pleavin also took home Fishwick Mandy at 1500gns , another out of a Royal Show title dam . |
| 27 | Rameau laid this out as a simple trio for first and second violins and continuo , with flutes doubling the firsts in unison . |
| 28 | They acknowledged one another gravely across a narrow divide . |
| 29 | To a large extent , Bolinger 's division between those adjectives that qualify referents and those that qualify sense is presented as if it were a classification of adjectives as word types , that is , as one might find them categorized in the dictionary , thereby giving an impression that Bolinger might regard this almost as a lexical division , similar to that dividing adjectives that can qualify animates from the rest . |
| 30 | Henry and Louis were to witness this again in a greater town than Laon . |