Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technical developments made possible both a greater variety and quality of signals and also more convenient ways of listening . |
| 2 | Except the filth ‘ ve got that now an ’ all . ’ |
| 3 | If only they could make this even a little communicative of what 's careering about in their heads , maybe there would be less physical damage done . |
| 4 | I 'm not sure that Joyce thinks this altogether a good thing . |
| 5 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 6 | I 've heard this quite a lot , it 's a , it 's a common |
| 7 | nervous now , you 're gon na be checking that quite a bit . |
| 8 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 9 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 10 | I 've done that quite a few times but it does n't have any lasting effect , so maybe I 'd be a bad catch , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Erm now you 've done that quite a few times before N A O so do the N A O H first and you should be able to whiz through that . |
| 12 | There was a commitment to the maintenance of full employment , with the Keynesian doctrine that budgetary management could achieve this now a matter of economic orthodoxy . |
| 13 | He ate these twice a year or so |
| 14 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 15 | Turned blue once a year . |
| 16 | Bouquets of flowers mark the spot where Mr Reynolds was shot dead exactly a week ago . |
| 17 | In 1985 builder Tom Barnes became suspicious about a £4,000 interest charge for a three-month period . |
| 18 | I have used this quite a lot for cardigans for an elderly lady , who was a bit of a traditionalist and would not have tuck stitch , in which the ‘ wrong ’ purl ) side is used as the right side . |
| 19 | Now I give this quite a strong point to bring up . . |
| 20 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
| 21 | okay and we 've got opposite over a hundred and twenty at the moment and we want we just want opposite . |
| 22 | It really is a multi-million pound industry … convincing people they could look better just a few pounds or stones lighter and this is how to do it . |
| 23 | ‘ Damn , ’ said Charlie under his breath , as the moon made another entrance on to the centre of the stage and left them lying motionless only a street 's length away from safety . |
| 24 | HSBC chairman Sir William Purves said : ‘ Although economic growth in Asia was robust , the continuing recession in several of our major markets made 1992 quite a difficult year and resulted in a significant increase in the level of provisioning . |
| 25 | ‘ Although economic growth in Asia was robust , the continuing recession in several of our major markets made 1992 quite a difficult year , and resulted in a significant increase in the level of provisioning . ’ |
| 26 | The Labour Party came to use that quite a lot . |
| 27 | And we used to do that twice a day , my darling , not once a day , twice a day . |
| 28 | I 've got to do that twice a day which I did n't know we actually had to do when I started it . |
| 29 | Erm what 's the sort of real shape , it 's not just you it 's everyone sort of doing GCSEs at the moment , erm I 'm getting this quite a lot . |
| 30 | I slumped to my knees , burdened by the hopeless regret that I had n't had the chance to do this just a bit sooner . |