Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pike have very sharp teeth so a wire trace has to be used to stop pike biting through the nylon . |
| 32 | He flicked a switch on a console and said . |
| 33 | After scouring through several reports , he ran his forefinger down a column of figures and discovered the facts behind the old woman 's plight : commodity prices are plunging . |
| 34 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 35 | The scales suggest the scales of a fish rather than armour ; was the priest perhaps a priest of Poteidan ? |
| 36 | The Welshmen , crouching low and running like hares , overtook the two who led the laden horse only a matter of minutes before they were themselves overtaken . |
| 37 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 38 | Unfortunately , such a concentration only a fortnight before the examination — which is too often the accepted state of affairs — is quite useless as a means of understanding and learning the skills of the subject . |
| 39 | DESPITE AMERICA LETTING THE SIDE DOWN A BIT , SAGE GROUP PROSPERS ON BACK OF NEW PRODUCTS , ACQUISITIONS |
| 40 | I du n no , on the one side down a bit so he was n't so noticeable and round the other side there 's ! |
| 41 | The answer is to send the light down a pipe which guides it round corners . |
| 42 | Each unit acts like an eye , and contains a small lens or facet , which focuses light down a rod ( known as a rhabdom ) made up of layers of light detectors . |
| 43 | To his second , favourite son Alfonso , he gave the Kingdom of Leon and the Campos Goticos , together with the tributes from the Moorish kingdom of Toledo , whose overlord he had successfully beaten into submission only a year before . |
| 44 | She will make my misery more tolerable , my slavery only half-slavery , my exile less a banishment . |
| 45 | Then you take that and taper down a bit and then it 's gon na split again |
| 46 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |
| 47 | Crosby 's side were relegation candidates only a month ago and the Roker boss was everybody 's tip for the axe . |
| 48 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 49 | Forward planning ( matching load forecasts and planned capacity , thinking about the future regional spread of power stations ) , was , of course , necessary , but was in practice merely a part time function of the ex-CEB engineers in charge of system operation . |
| 50 | Highly readable chapters on a variety of sportsmen by an American-born who strung three outstanding cricket books together a decade ago . |
| 51 | If you injected cold air you 'd actually chill the furnace down a bit . |
| 52 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 53 | This is partly because it began trying to sell to government schools only a year ago , and partly because it would prefer not to give its machines away . |
| 54 | North facing rooms receive less light so a carpet with rich colours will make the room feel warmer . |
| 55 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 56 | But there is that again a confusion So a target that perhaps election by thirds reduces public interest , possibly reduces turn out . |
| 57 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 58 | Campbell 's survey of London trades in 1747 lists only a handful of female crafts all paid wages well below male trades . |
| 59 | The doubt may be a result of forgetting , but is the remedy only a matter of remembering ? |
| 60 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |