Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magnificent though Rasari was , you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line . |
| 2 | Then Ramsey said , ‘ I think you will find Lincoln rather a quiet place . ’ |
| 3 | And we try to show that retirement can be a rewarding and fulfilling I find it so anyway so I can sell things in that er sense having an experience rather a young person talking to older people how er fulfilling it wis is in retirement . |
| 4 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 5 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |
| 6 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 7 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |
| 8 | For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out . |
| 9 | Menem , who had accepted Yoma 's resignation only a few days before , had been forced to suspend her from her post in March when a report by a Spanish investigative judge , hearing evidence in the Spanish capital , Madrid , accused her of being part of an international drug laundering ring . |
| 10 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 11 | As Dicey says , ‘ the appeal to precedent is in the law courts merely a useful fiction by which judicial decision conceals its transformation into judicial legislation ’ . |
| 12 | At the time of argument before the Board only an abbreviated account of the judgment , reported in The Times , 16 April 1992 , was available for consideration . |
| 13 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 14 | Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . |
| 15 | They sing the chorus together a second time . |
| 16 | Normal was what people said some of their actions and relations were , from time to time , and in Marcus 's experience what they said they were bore only a vague relation to their actual forms and configurations . |
| 17 | The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake . |
| 18 | Since there is at present only a small pool of people with experience in this area the use of practitioners as trainers provides an element of ‘ training the trainers ’ in the course team . |
| 19 | Hudson and Denner present only a successful and respected gentleman whose accomplishments might only be guessed at . |
| 20 | Urging a review of the UK system , compared it with France where , although special support went to deprived regions , there was a wide range of financial incentives specially tailored to industrial programmes so a higher proportion went to businesses most likely to produce the best results . |
| 21 | " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 22 | When sequences are similar the team will indicate their preferences so a rough cut can be made by the editor , who joins all the desired sequences together and cuts the whole thing to the exact time . |
| 23 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 24 | I would like to see a streamlined funding system operated by a simple agency with lead responsibility Perhaps a defined percentage should be made available to voluntary organisations I would like to see proper involvement of voluntary organisations at all levels of the Joint Planning Process . |
| 25 | As a result , they receive for their milk only a fifth of the price paid to European farmers , a third of the price paid to American farmers , and one-seventh of that paid in Japan . |
| 26 | All these stars are concentrated in a field only a little over a degree in diameter . |
| 27 | The English columns kept arriving , but of course only a small proportion of the great host could move up to occupy that terrace position . |
| 28 | He enclosed a cover note , explaining in his clerkly style that it was of course only a rough estimate , and that I was n't beholden to reimburse him penny for penny . |
| 29 | By contrast only a few reptiles , like tortoises and iguanas , are herbivores . |
| 30 | Meanwhile in the supermarket car park only a few hundred yards from the scene of the rape , women expressed their shock at what had happened : |