Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and 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 | On one level , it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read . |
| 4 | ‘ Nigel is so laid-back and a real joker but he works like hell and gets the horses very fit . |
| 5 | The rooms are back to normal , but much tidier and a good deal cleaner . ’ |
| 6 | This decision was somewhat controversial and a gloss was placed on it in Boyle v Kodak [ 1969 ] 1 WLR 661 . |
| 7 | The budget was attacked by opposition leaders as highly inflationary and a " command budget of the IMF " . |
| 8 | I could fancy her if she was n't so old and a teacher . |
| 9 | ‘ Frenchman 's Creek ’ is a much shorter and a more simple book , written by a well known authoress this century . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tony Paignton , although only twenty-one and a merry-faced person bubbling over with fun , was an intensely serious young man . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The RUC men who had conducted the police investigations were fiercely indignant and a senior officer threatened to resign . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was a gentle enough life and it took only six and a half hours to travel home by taxi from Beirut to Jaffa . |
| 19 | So six and a half for that one . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Between it and the boundary of the Howardian Hills area of outstanding natural beauty at Foston Bridge , the distance is only three and a half kilometres , just over two miles , there is therefore a narrow corridor not designated either as greenbelt or A O N B , which naturally er comes under rather heavier pressure perhaps than er areas round it might . |
| 22 | The demand for cheap beef arose when North American beef soared in price , — cattle ranching in South America is far less costly and a lucrative business deal for wealthy landowners . |
| 23 | Oversights can be extremely costly and a microcomputer model carefully constructed will not allow oversights to occur . |
| 24 | Which which is why really at that th for the development funding they did the did n't particularly want I I P supporting because it is so structured and a lot of it is on a plate in a sense . |
| 25 | Moving from a four to a six of the same capacity means smoother running , as individual cylinder explosions are less powerful and a six is inherently better balanced . |
| 26 | If flying to Japan made ol' George Bush feel kinda disoriented and a bit sick , then a visit to the Isle of Wight would probably have him in full Exorcist mode ; not just projectile vomiting but his head spinning too . |
| 27 | To be able to inject this realism it 's extremely good and a big step forward |
| 28 | Zhang was not totally opposed to the idea , but some members of the increasingly politicized Guandong Army felt that more radical action to extend Japanese control in Manchuria could be taken if Zhang , known to be somewhat recalcitrant and a far from willing puppet , were out of the way . |
| 29 | So I was wrong when I thought they were fantastically healthy and a good advert for the Jungle . |
| 30 | Swords which affect psychology are extremely useful and a Sword of Fortitude is a must for any Orc or Goblin army , as it makes the bearer and the unit he is with immune to fear , terror and panic . |