Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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61 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 .
62 ‘ Apparently , ’ he went on , ‘ he does this quite a lot .
63 A sauna is available free twice a week and there is also a fitness room .
64 Facilities include an indoor pool which opens onto a large garden , a solarium , sauna ( which is free twice a week ) and sun terrace .
65 If — as happens too often — the new methods are even more inconvenient than the old then a change-over is difficult , because to the basic inconvenience of the new pattern must be added the inconvenience of learning it .
66 There followed a short lull , but from 1620 onwards a succession of attacks by small formations of S.79s commenced but all were successfully beaten off , mainly by the intense gunfire of the ships , although Yellow Section of 808 Squadron , two Fulmars flown by Lt. A.T.J. Kindersley and Lt. Hay , R.M. , caught one bomber at 1710 and claimed it shot down .
67 but , but we , we , we might come across this again a bit later on th that i it 's entirely possible that what is being said at the early part is n't actually borne out by the details that come later on .
68 From 1985 onwards a number of additional formidable barriers to progress towards a coherent , integrated under-fives policy began to emerge .
69 Now I 'll pull this forward a bit erm Ian
70 Is this actually a book that er is going to be of any assistance to me ?
71 This is only a guide , of course , but your score can be interpreted as follows : 9–15 Definitely a lark 16–20 Moderately a lark 21–26 Neither a lark nor an owl ; intermediate type 27–31 Moderately an owl 32–38 Definitely an owl
72 If the by-election results were repeated throughout the district , the number of Labour councillors on Wear Valley Council would be reduced from eight to four with the Liberals increasing from 28 to 32 scarcely a reason for rejoicing in the Labour ranks .
73 So sorry just a moment .
74 It 's probably , maybe member 's ignorance that they do n't know that , that already a lot of work has been done on it .
75 In any case , my wig is more that just a wig .
76 is that an Orkney way of doing it or is that just a sort of male thing ?
77 Was that just a shadow by the house , or was someone hiding there , watching her ?
78 It then moved to being paid so much per week , for an trainee , and we now have a mixture of such much a week , and so much for the output related fundings , the jobs , the N V Q's , the F E courses which I mentioned earlier .
79 The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment .
80 In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third .
81 But the magistrates said French had flouted the court order and his record — of sixty five convictions for animal cruelty — was so serious only a prison sentence was appropriate .
82 By 2040 only a handful of currency dealers remained , huddled in tatty offices in Tirana and Ulan Bator , trading the lek against the tugrik .
83 One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening .
84 ‘ They made it official just a couple of days ago . ’
85 The tenancy is to be monthly at a nominal rent of £2 per month payable in advance , ( I would suggest that this should be payable once a year and would be grateful for your agreement to this ) .
86 Head of Department : ‘ Homework is now set once a week .
87 Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children .
88 iii Preferably a building which forms a central focus for the area , i.e. library , community centre , church hall .
89 Devlin scored the second after a number of scrums , free kicks and penalties all close to the line , and in injury time John Paul Speirs touched down to ensure victory .
90 CHINA : Huchin Togos , a schoolteacher , and Wang Manglai , a Mongolian-language specialist , have reportedly been detained without charge or trial since May 1991 following a crackdown by the regional authorities against two organisations accused of ‘ instigating ethnic division ’ .
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