Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 2 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 3 | However , in a number of cases the variables on the right-hand side of equation ( 6.5 ) account for rather a small proportion of the variance of the left-hand side variable , suggesting that some important influences on have been omitted from the estimating equation . |
| 4 | Having to stop on every other move to bury one hand at a time in the confines of barely warm armpits made for rather a stilted ascent , but it was worth it . |
| 5 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 6 | Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo . |
| 7 | Indeed , in a publishing environment where there may be a need for perhaps a dozen word processors but just one page makeup system this approach has strong financial advantages . |
| 8 | This means that it accounts for perhaps a third of the sales of ICI Chemicals & Polymers — about the same proportion as does the latter in the whole of ICI . |
| 9 | Most printers would be only too pleased to oblige — for perhaps a modest donation to the tea tin . |
| 10 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
| 11 | For perhaps the best of reasons , parents were reluctant to subject their daughters to even the slightest diminution in their standard of life . |
| 12 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 13 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 14 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 15 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 16 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 17 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 18 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 19 | FOR perhaps the 50th time since lunch , the hotline rings . |
| 20 | Close — the pupil sees the choice as between only a few alternative possibilities . |
| 21 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |
| 22 | If he had put a second £100 into the FT-SE index each time he bought from the state , the resulting shares would now be worth only a little over a third more than he paid . |
| 23 | She therefore concluded that ‘ it may be necessary to make the State system a flat rate one and secure the necessary gradation by supplementary allowances from an occupational pool for all the higher grade occupations ’ ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 236 ) . |
| 24 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
| 25 | His second great contribution was the functional method in anthropology , which despite its defects was for long a valuable associational mode of approach to the study of human behaviour and social institutions . |
| 26 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 27 | He saw no prospect of avoiding for long a head-on collision . |
| 28 | As for public relations , who could dislike for long the public relations man with his gin and tonic in hand , carnation in his button-hole , and soothing , helpful words ? |
| 29 | Humans , we are told , never tolerate for long the predatory and revolutionary power of money without constraining it . |
| 30 | Then , as now , coal provided the fuel for much the greater part of the country 's electricity . |