Example sentences of "this [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This together with an improved factory deep cleaning service will provide us with a factory hygiene service , that I am sure will develop into a major business for the division in future years . |
| 6 | Terry Hands 's direction whips all this along at a fast pace . |
| 7 | The Ulster Branch recognise the situation — it only happens like this once in a blue moon — but finding an answer is n't easy . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was told all this later by a good friend of mine . |
| 12 | Having said this now about a hostile environment . |
| 13 | Rameau laid this out as a simple trio for first and second violins and continuo , with flutes doubling the firsts in unison . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Of course , Simak was not putting this forward as a serious theory . |
| 16 | Only two years ago I myself wrote an essay which uses all three of these mechanisms directly about Rose of Lima : it diagnoses her ‘ problem ’ as a sado-masochistic relationship to God , it relates this causally to a religious culture which is viciously sexist and heterosexist , and it suggests that we deal with all this by growing up into spiritual maturity and putting such alarming eccentricities behind us . |