Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sticking up into the Gulf of Mexico like a thumb , Yucatan points towards Miami and New Orleans , each only an hour and a half from Merida by air . |
| 2 | Is this just an aberration , if you look at the road markings , you 'll see it seems to be official , cos the road is marked out for driving on the right , and the reason is that er , traffic law in this country says , that vehicles drive on the left , except in Savoy Street . |
| 3 | If the CRCs are different then an error message is output . |
| 4 | ‘ Or is that just an Eldar wearing a human mask ? ’ she asked . |
| 5 | Eventually I arrived at Number 10 about an hour late . |
| 6 | The amount outstanding on bank credit cards increased by £0.13bn in the fourth quarter of 1991 following an increase of £0.21bn in the previous quarter . |
| 7 | He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule , condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that once an order was made under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 placing a child in the care of a local authority , responsibility for the care of the child was firmly with the local authority and the family proceedings court could not retain a power of review over the care order by including directions ; and that , accordingly , the direction relating to the continued involvement of the guardian ad litem would be deleted ( post , p. 812B , G ) . |
| 9 | But since agriculture forms the basis of our industry , it was by and large also an intensification of the crisis in the national economy in general . |
| 10 | 8.3 Following an episode of violence , positive support should be available for the individual directly involved . |
| 11 | Moreover , a reduction of frequency from four to three following an intervention is equally likely to give a misleading impression of the efficacy of the intervention . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 14 | I do not agree that such a postmodern attack on autonomous and auratic culture is at all necessarily an offensive against ‘ bourgeois ’ art . |
| 15 | It was all only an excuse . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're good enough an actress to be invited to our Fenice theatre . ’ |
| 17 | Did they really cope so well in a man 's world , or was it all just an act ? |
| 18 | In 1922 also an application was received from ‘ a few of the young ladies and the young men of the Edenderry Memorial congregation ’ for ‘ the use of the field at the rear of the church for recreation , viz. the playing of Lawn Tennis . |
| 19 | Legionnaires ' Disease was first recognised and named in 1976 following an outbreak of pneumonia amongst a group of American Legion delegates to a convention in Philadelphia . |
| 20 | If the tidal forces are not too powerful then an equilibrium will be reached in which there is a certain degree of distortion . |
| 21 | Probably an el well certainly an element which ought to be considered within the umbrella of the R P G but lets |
| 22 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
| 23 | It might be argued that for years Britain unsuccessfully attempted the ‘ Italian approach ’ , trying to establish an independent , strong domestic producer and that now an approach , in some respects similar to the ‘ Spanish approach ’ ( welcoming foreign investment ) is being adopted . |
| 24 | The artist had three sittings at Highgrove , each supposedly an hour in length , but each of which in fact lasted throughout each of the three mornings . |
| 25 | Alan Bond , one of Australia 's most flamboyant entrepreneurs and former chairman of Bond Corporation Holdings , was arrested on Dec. 6 following an investigation into the November 1988 collapse of Rothwells Ltd. , a merchant bank run by his friend and business associate Laurie Connell . |
| 26 | Bond was arrested on Dec. 6 following an investigation into the 1988 collapse of Rothwells Ltd. , a merchant bank run by his business associate , Laurie Connell [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 27 | But what I mean is , he did n't have that high an opinion of himself , just because he knew he could have any one of us for the asking . |
| 28 | Gilbert Burnet was repeating an old Whig commonplace when he wrote : " It was a maxim among our lawyers , that even an Act of Parliament against Magna Carta was null of itself " . |
| 29 | I mean er erm it 's a single market for every citizen of the E C twelve so an Italian , a Belgian , a German can come to this country and work , er but the p Assuming they can do everything else as equal , their qualifications are equal and so on . |
| 30 | And I said to Dave what 's this then I 've got at one o'clock an hour 's overtime . |