Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adj] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , it 's a bit tatty perhaps in places that one , that one 's coming out , what do you think ? |
| 2 | It 's a bit quiet here on Sundays , a lot of praying , you see . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , it 's a bit warmer here in Canada than it was in Soltau in March . ’ |
| 4 | The Anglican Church is being challenged today to put its own house in order , to show that its portrayal of truth need not end in a sterile liberalism or empty liturgical forms , but in a faith ‘ Catholic and Reformed ’ which , to misquote Gregory the Great slightly , is ‘ a faith large enough for elephants to swim in and little lambs to paddle with safety ’ . |
| 5 | Reid switched off his decrepit Ford in front of a building visible only in patches through the railings of a once-white wooden veranda , over which trailed bougainvillaea , syringa , convolvulus , and hibiscus in a riot of colour . |
| 6 | The deal that was eventually drawn up between Boeing and Virgin was of a complexity unprecedented even in R.Q. Wilson 's considerable experience . |
| 7 | A succession of distinctive graptolite faunas characterized layers of black shale , a succession recognizable elsewhere in Britain and on the Continent . |
| 8 | By this time ‘ Aladdin Sane ’ had been released to advance orders in the UK of 100,000 , a figure comparable only to albums by The Beatles . |
| 9 | So in everything that follows , it should be borne in mind that the sample under discussion is — possibly more than might have been expected — a group close together in age , which could almost be regarded as a generation . |
| 10 | Should he make it three out of four , that would set a record unmatched even by Jack Nicklaus , despite his six victories between 1963 and 1986 . |
| 11 | They say — the records say , that twilight is a moment equal only to pre-dawn in its tenuous hold on life . |
| 12 | ‘ I know very little , ’ Lucien said , and was about to add , ‘ it was not part of the Vibrancy studies ’ , but remembered in time that that was a remark suitable only for Walterkin 's ears . |
| 13 | Keep a divider handy just in case it is needed . |
| 14 | Persinger 's hypothesis thus contains what has long been demanded of ufology : a theory capable either of validation or falsification . |
| 15 | The menacing wraith-chase of the vivace — a movement eerie even by Britten 's spectral standards — left behind a sensation of discomfiture reminiscent of his ( later ) The Turn Of The Screw . |
| 16 | and I 've got a frame big enough for Joseph |
| 17 | ‘ We are a Society concerned solely with Education and the raising of our business to the rank of a respected profession ’ . |
| 18 | The Kremlin 's only option now is to pull every available string to find a miracle-worker , a man capable both of reform and of limiting the consequences of reform . |
| 19 | It 's lovely to get into a size 16 instead of size 20 … . ‘ |
| 20 | Could n't find a size large enough for Hurley so we got him a nightshirt instead . |
| 21 | So the Schreider of Schreider Sterne Inc. was older , with a daughter old enough for Guy Sterne to plan on marrying … poor girl , Virginia reflected pityingly . |
| 22 | Street life is therefore seen as potentially a meaningful cultural or social phenomenon which performs important functions for participants , and a phenomenon capable also of variation between different social and ethnic groups . |