Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 2 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 3 | Some subjects are painful , sensational , controversial or just a bit too exciting . |
| 4 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |
| 5 | plastic ones which were close to the ceiling , can you , could you give me a bit more of a description of that or perhaps a manufacturer 's name ? |
| 6 | Forty pence out of a pound what would that , roughly is it about half or about a quarter or what ? |
| 7 | He died in 594 or perhaps a year later . |
| 8 | The majority of staff — 62 per cent — read all or most of Newsline while 38 per cent read some or just a little of the publication . |
| 9 | In the person of Mary of Guise , it had been made abundantly clear that neither a French background nor an assertive Protestant aristocracy was a bar to the exercise of power and the acquisition of respect . |
| 10 | It is clear that even a good working knowledge of credit costs helps consumers only if that knowledge affects their shopping decisions . |
| 11 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 12 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 13 | Schools are given the same written guidelines as in the Major Project , but it is made clear that only a short proposal document is required to accompany the school 's spending plan . |
| 14 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 15 | In the preface , the editor of the catalogue makes it clear that only a representative selection of coins is listed . |
| 16 | The strongest impetus , he said , comes from museums ' reassessment of their role in society which the profession sees as far broader than even a decade ago . |
| 17 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
| 18 | All around her there were trees — huge , old , their foliage so high that not a leaf was distinguishable . |
| 19 | The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm . |
| 20 | A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left . |
| 21 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 22 | President Bush had stated on Aug. 2 that only a health problem — which he stressed did not currently exist — would deter him from seeking re-election for a second term . |
| 23 | It is interesting that only a few years ago Mr Albert Baker of Baker Bros. , Upper Halling , paid the Vicar part of the cost of wood he had cut in Halling woods . |
| 24 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 25 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 26 | But Gallagher does not decide this and only a House of Lords judgment on the point can resolve the uncertainty . |
| 27 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 28 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 29 | Life may indeed have been nasty , brutal and short a few hundred thousand years ago , but there are those who claim that at least the shortness was a benefit in comparison with modern human existence . |
| 30 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |