Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My method of writing and producing a play was as follows : being a little lazy and a great procrastinator , I would leave the writing of the Saturday night play until the day before , meanwhile working out the plot and sequence of scenes in my head . |
| 2 | You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault . |
| 3 | Glancing with irritation at the cocky girl who was n't even properly French but a bourgeoise English snob with no clue about what was what . |
| 4 | On one level , it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read . |
| 5 | In the UK this is not only absurd but a waste of time . |
| 6 | ‘ Nigel is so laid-back and a real joker but he works like hell and gets the horses very fit . |
| 7 | Annie was a cheerful , tireless and obliging young lady who had a young man , a dowry in an old sock , and a helpful welcome for customers who were not only hard-up but a bit embarrassed . |
| 8 | The rooms are back to normal , but much tidier and a good deal cleaner . ’ |
| 9 | Instead of seeking to contain royal power they were preoccupied with gaining the favour of the Grand Prince , or control of the government when the monarch was personally weak or a minor . |
| 10 | Not only that but a collective bargain is a method of suppressing individual differences between workers . |
| 11 | Not only that but a change in methods of working , in its ethos and what were seen as its privileges , such as index-linked pensions , was to follow . |
| 12 | Not only that but a drought in Maharashtra in 1987 and 1988 , probably the most severe of the century in the subcontinent , has caused barely a ripple of news interest in the world . |
| 13 | This decision was somewhat controversial and a gloss was placed on it in Boyle v Kodak [ 1969 ] 1 WLR 661 . |
| 14 | The budget was attacked by opposition leaders as highly inflationary and a " command budget of the IMF " . |
| 15 | Thompson , Chesson and Chamerovzow remained personally friendly but a later effort at co-operation in 1859 between the BFASS and Thompson 's London Emancipation Committee produced more recriminations . |
| 16 | I could fancy her if she was n't so old and a teacher . |
| 17 | ‘ Frenchman 's Creek ’ is a much shorter and a more simple book , written by a well known authoress this century . |
| 18 | Inactivation of the octamer binding site results in a higher level of gene expression in cells which contain only Oct-1 and a lower level in cells containing the cervical octamer binding protein indicating that whilst Oct-1 binding reduces promoter activity , the cervical protein increases it . |
| 19 | ‘ I was keen to play a policewoman in Home and Away because it was so different and a very strong physical role — I even got the chance to throw people around a bit which was really good fun ! ’ she says . |
| 20 | The " d " and the " w " of Andrew are somewhat different and a pen stroke joining the " w " of Andrew to the capital " 5 " of " Stavanger " is also different . |
| 21 | Tony Paignton , although only twenty-one and a merry-faced person bubbling over with fun , was an intensely serious young man . |
| 22 | The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements . |
| 23 | Pot and container-grown plants are the most at risk ; if you grow begonias , cyclamen , coleus , primulas or fuchsias and have managed to escape this horrible little pest , you 're either extremely fortunate or a great deal craftier than I am . |
| 24 | He was appalled that I wanted to study English and history , both of which he thought not only pointless but a danger to my identity . |
| 25 | The RUC men who had conducted the police investigations were fiercely indignant and a senior officer threatened to resign . |
| 26 | Instead we 've had limp-wristed pardoners , a well paid return after a couple of years and now the insult of Johnson being only 10 and a bit seconds from another Olympic final . |
| 27 | Text entry is not quite so simple and a little and time consuming , but it does allow for individual pieces of text to be attached to specific notes and symbols which stay attached to the correct notes even when you have edited a piece extensively . |
| 28 | It was a gentle enough life and it took only six and a half hours to travel home by taxi from Beirut to Jaffa . |
| 29 | So six and a half for that one . |
| 30 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |