Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , Pahl ( 1975 ) and others have shown that commuting may be a constraint rather then a preference , and that many higher income manual workers are ‘ reluctant commuters ’ , who are only able to afford homes outside metropolitan areas . |
| 2 | And er I know er we used to put er i er kind of er Bit of er play on once a year , there . |
| 3 | While this issue has not been expressly considered , it seems fair to assume that rather than incur the risks inherent in giving the board so wide a discretion , and relying on the usually well-founded assumption that the shareholders ' dominant purpose is to increase their individual wealth , the court , at the price of some distortion , would define the interests of the members exclusively in terms of their personal financial well-being . |
| 4 | The characters to be printed are sent from the computer along either a parallel ( Centronics ) or serial ( RS232/V24 ) interface . |
| 5 | Once The Stage covered all finals productions from the drama schools , but now they may write up a play perhaps once a year . |
| 6 | In the light of the by-election result in Scotland and the fact that we have an opportunity only once a month to put our constituency interests , I appeal to you not to hear frivolous comments from Conservative Members but only real issues that concern Scottish Members of Parliament . |
| 7 | Generally , women become familiar quickly with the scent of their infants , and can recognise their baby by smell alone only a few days after birth . |
| 8 | Homosexuality aroused revulsion in about a quarter of the respondents , another quarter seeing it as sick , odd or ridiculous . |
| 9 | ‘ We will shortly move our milk distribution depot to the site and plan to be packaging locally sourced milk in about a year 's time , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Q3 underwriting loss $53m lower at $28.3m produced deficit down almost a half from $259.7m to $133.1m as remedial action proved increasingly effective . |
| 11 | His band play only once a month , although they 're offered 15,000 roubles per night . |
| 12 | Casting and screening in just a week . |
| 13 | Cov 's ground is undergoing building so the traditional away end is closed which left the away fans only about a 3rd of one stand . |
| 14 | This island seems overrun with small black pigs ( animals so much a part of Tongan life that when Captain Cook presented a pair of hitherto unknown Guernsey cows to the King they were classified as ‘ Cook 's pigs ’ , and the name has stuck for cows ever since ) , and with Australian cruising ‘ yachties ’ who use the Niuas ( as Schouten and LeMaire once did ) as the formal port of entry to the kingdom . |
| 15 | A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation . |
| 16 | When is a ghost movie not really a ghost move ? |
| 17 | Recommendations regarding placement will need to bear in mind not only a child 's existing abilities , but also the progress a child is likely to make in different educational settings . |
| 18 | In theory , items can be devised to test the more sophisticated thought processes listed in Bloom 's Taxonomy such as knowledge of trends and sequences , or skills of analysis , but such item writing demands not only a high degree of skill , not often available , it also requires a considerable sophistication in language and comprehension skills which second language learners are unlikely to possess . |
| 19 | Two young constables who joined the force just over a year ago expressed concern at a plan to judge police performance on the number of arrests . |
| 20 | Mark Kershaw , who started as general manager at Ayr just over a year ago with the task of halting the track 's headlong hurtle towards debts of £1 million , described the rescue package as ‘ an enormous boost , not only for Ayr racecourse , but Scottish racing ’ . |
| 21 | His death spawned one of the great Grand Prix meetings of Europe , the Ivo van Damme Memorial Meeting , held annually in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels , itself a scene of appalling tragedy just over a year earlier at football 's European Cup Final . |
| 22 | Chevenement was actually given responsibility for industry as well as research just under a year ago . |
| 23 | Mark Clayton joined Eastwell Manor as head chef just over a year ago . |
| 24 | He returned to action just over a week ago to show an impressive turn of foot in winning the Prix du Prince d'Orange . |
| 25 | Ageing presents not only a medical problem , but also an evolutionary paradox : if organisms can function well in youth , why can they not continue to do so in old age ? |
| 26 | George put the finishing touches to the last episode just over a week ago , and the new ITV series starts next Sunday . |
| 27 | His definition of a statutory constitution does , however , allow us to distinguish constitutional law from other law by clear criteria , thus giving the term not just a specific meaning , but a meaning with consequences . |
| 28 | Contrary to what some people suppose , boredom 15 a strong emotion not just a matter of apathy and inertia . |
| 29 | THE opponents of a major pylon scheme received a boost yesterday when a government department confirmed it intended to lodge a formal objection to the route . |
| 30 | These have much smaller corallites usually only a millimetre or two across , and the septa typical of rugose corals are absent or inconspicuous . |