Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 2pm a five-mile sponsored walk will be held from the church , finishing at about 4.30pm with refreshments . |
| 2 | While retaining the configuration of the P-39 Airacobra it was very much a brand new type , powered by an Allison V-1710-47 or 1,325hp . |
| 3 | The secretarial course had been very much a crash one . |
| 4 | Mr MacMullen says : ‘ He is very much a Thatcher loyalist and it is an open secret that he is n't happy with the way in which things are going under John Major . |
| 5 | However , the difficulties encountered in attempting to implement what is basically a Type I system whilst retaining choice for GPs and patients are demonstrated in a more comprehensive description of the proposed provisions . |
| 6 | Food does seem to be a German , especially a South German ( and Austrian ) obsession . |
| 7 | 0–2 ticks You are naturally a bit anxious about life — look again at the particular areas you ticked . |
| 8 | Such activity is naturally a bit messy , and those left-over bits of bedding that litter the area around the sett , within the spoil heaps and down the tunnels , are a dead give-away . |
| 9 | Besides , she told herself firmly , this time the sea was merely a bit choppy . |
| 10 | erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another . |
| 11 | He was delighted to find himself not merely a Lord 24 years ago , but in possession of the regular expenses his status brings him . |
| 12 | Then it would have been twenty-five metres of snow slide and a final trip down a thirty-metre vertical chasm into a mix of ice and ice-cold water . |
| 13 | There 's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they 'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish . |
| 14 | There 's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they 'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish . |
| 15 | A Libyan vessel inside US waters , eager to test its equipment , shoots down a US civilian airliner . |
| 16 | You 've got the notes a b c d e f sharp g sharp a coming down a g sharp f sharp , well it 's not the bloody minor scale then is it ? |
| 17 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 18 | CLIFF HARRIES tracks down a South African antihero from 1960 |
| 19 | Eventually he managed to turn this into a special trick , with the cat knocking down a coin each time his owner clicked his fingers . |
| 20 | Climb down a bit lower with me and I 'll show you . ’ |
| 21 | So maybe , it would have been better if you could have even got down a bit lower and to , to , to get more of it from the horizon . |
| 22 | Erm , I think possibly again , if you 'd got down a bit lower this sort of little rise in the ground there , that er that 's a , it 's erm what do you call it ? |
| 23 | You get down a bit lower and I 'll drop it down to you |
| 24 | But I think they , they probably play it down a bit these days . |
| 25 | I put down a bit less than I had been drinking . |
| 26 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 actress Shannen Doherty turned down a Pounds 60,000 offer to pose for Playboy because her bosses would n't let her strip . |
| 27 | My father 's father , a soldier in the Black Watch , had helped put down a rebellion one Easter in Dublin . |
| 28 | But Smith , who turned down a £1 million offer for Whittingham from Wimbledon earlier this year , said : ‘ He 's not for sale and that 's that . ’ |
| 29 | It is easy to blast down a grade 5 river without much skill . |
| 30 | You see this post standing up here now we 've got down a lot lower this time , in fact , I think , it 's the same post . |