Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We skirted the artificial Llys y-fran reservoir and chose a route back on the tiny lanes which connect the farms . |
| 2 | Even in these situations , however , first generation Caribbeans are more likely to use a variety close to the local Standard English of their birthplace than the Creole , while the second generation are much more likely to use London English than a form of Creole . |
| 3 | It was a wonderful vision but over the course of centuries , the gardens became building plots , access to the new houses being obtained by demolishing part of the ground floor of a house to provide a passageway through to the new dwellings . |
| 4 | Let us get a bit closer to the new clause . |
| 5 | ‘ My girl , Helen , landed on the deck a bit heavily in the jump-off of the Foxhunter and had to go home early , so I 'm without labour at the moment . |
| 6 | She probably had a real great impression of herself right she did and then when she turns round and we said well I 'm sorry and said well sorry no got a bloody big shock , gave her a shock to the system and to be quite honest what I 've seen of her since then has been a darn sight more er spruced up and a bit more on the bloody ball than she was before |
| 7 | That 's when he actually got into the ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ period and when the show extended a bit more into the theatrical — more props with street scenes , a huge lift chair that went over the audience , and things like that . |
| 8 | That means paying a bit more for a used example , but you retain more of your investment . |
| 9 | They will consider paying a bit more for a premium service . |
| 10 | Yeah , but he seemed a bit more like a normal fifteen , sixteen year old |
| 11 | it 's been well decorated , it looks a , a bit more like a public toilet now , . |
| 12 | And I 'll show you a bit more in a little while . |
| 13 | If the East Europeans could have offered a bit more in the loose and a great deal more behind the scrum , they would have reaped some reward for their excellent work in the line-out . |
| 14 | I had made Lucy take off her anorak so she looked a bit less like an urban guerrilla , even though the T-shirt she was wearing underneath — ‘ Rats Have Rights ’ — was a bit of a giveaway , or maybe I was just paranoid . |
| 15 | It is a bit much for the hon. Member for Gordon to show a report and to say that it was compiled by Labour-controlled Lothian regional council . |
| 16 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 17 | I mean some people say it diffidence some people say it 's considerate so you have to then try and go a bit further beyond the actual differences to find out what the reasons behind them are . |
| 18 | Its real efficacy can only be tested over time and it remains to be seen if clozapine is a major advance , or whether the wide spectrum of response originally found with chlorpromazine , from full recovery to no response , is merely replicated , with a general shift a bit further in the desired direction . |
| 19 | I was n't going to turn her out with nowhere to go , you know , young lady — but perhaps it 's a bit hard on an old lady to go into a new place after living in the same cottage most of her life . |
| 20 | He regarded the Robemaker and Fenella , peeping out cautiously , saw him smile a bit vacantly at the hooded figure . |
| 21 | two more winners to finish off with … longjumper Carl Howard from Oxford took the national under 20 title again … his winning leap 7 point five two metres and … weightlifter Andrew Saxton who was sent home from the Olympics last year after a mix up over drugs was a winner again in the British Senior Championships at Crystal Palace … |
| 22 | Movement , in Western music , even as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , has always been in a direction away from the diatonic and through dissonance . |
| 23 | The males … are innovating in a direction away from the local Scottish prestige norm , but in accepting r-lessness their usage happens to coincide with a much larger national norm . |
| 24 | Claudia lay sleepless , visions of Dana jiving at the head of the bridal procession , dressed in shorts and a veil instead of the lovely dress Claudia had spent so much time designing , going through her head . |
| 25 | Joanna Baker , marketing director of the Festival , welcomed a decision yesterday by the Scottish Arts Council to increase its grant in 1993-94 by 5 per cent to £684,500 . |
| 26 | Evidence of your continuing enthusiasm may possibly tip the balance in your favour if the interviewer is having difficulty coming to a decision out of a large number of applicants . |
| 27 | If you look at , say , American TV wrestling , you can already see in it a strutting prediction of the showbiz-sports of the future , where drug-enhanced body-sculpture plays a part both in the athletic demands of the spectacle and in the personality-selling which is its true purpose . |
| 28 | And , notwithstanding the very high authority of Lord Coke , I think it is not the fact that to accept prompt payment of a part only of a liquidated demand can never be more beneficial than to insist on payment of the whole . |
| 29 | As already mentioned , the defendant may submit a defence up to the return day and even at the pre-trial review if he or she is prepared to risk costs being awarded against him or her . |
| 30 | Individualized justice is a response both to a twentieth-century tendency to view consequences in the short term , and to greater diversity of moral beliefs . |