Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magnificent though Rasari was , you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line . |
| 2 | Then Ramsey said , ‘ I think you will find Lincoln rather a quiet place . ’ |
| 3 | Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . |
| 4 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 5 | Richard Cunningham , a botanist who had been trained at Kew by William Townsend Aiton , elder brother of John Townsend Aiton ( who had trained Gould as a gardener at Windsor Castle ) had been murdered by Aborigines only a short time before Gould 's departure while collecting on an expedition along the Murray River . |
| 6 | Apart from the victory at Halidon Hill , which in retrospect was of great military significance but which gave Edward only a temporary and illusory supremacy , the war did little to enhance Edward III 's military reputation . |
| 7 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 8 | With Dennis just a few feet away on the stairs , it was the sexual equivalent of Russian roulette . |
| 9 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 10 | Probably they owe their exceptional size to the fact that Marlborough was a great sheep market from the earliest times , and Thame possibly a great cattle-market . |
| 11 | At the outset of World War Two , with Hungary still a neutral country , Peto travelled to London on business . |
| 12 | When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before . |
| 13 | Both belong to the Caprice club which skates at sports centres at Middlesbrough , Eston and Shildon just a quick flip from their homes . |
| 14 | Kirstie , 38 , who miscarried a Down 's Syndrome baby two years ago , was handed William just a few days after he was born in October . |
| 15 | CELTIC boss Liam Brady has offered Derry boy Nigel Melly a one year extension to his contract — just weeks after showing him the door . |
| 16 | ‘ I met Nigel only a few years ago . |
| 17 | Of the many species of Dictyonema only a few have a colony as regular in shape as this one , which can grow to a length of more than 20 cm . |
| 18 | And with Tenby already a 2–5 shot , credible challengers would be welcomed like old friends . |
| 19 | She handed me the sheet of grey paper with its synoptic chart which had been transmitted from Florida just a few moments before . |
| 20 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 21 | Watch out for Val Piriou , a young French designer who came to England just a few years ago unable to speak English . |
| 22 | The Falangists were also displeased , partly because they were opposed to the principle of monarchy , and partly because , in stating specifically that the ideological basis of the regime would be provided by an amalgam of political forces , the Law of Succession choked off their hopes of making Spain exclusively a Falangist state . |
| 23 | Closing Over , much of which is already locked up will save the NHS almost a million pounds a year , which will be spent on more community nursing and rehabilitation . |
| 24 | Murad II was about to go on campaign , however , and in his haste gave Hocazade only a provincial kadilik , that of Kestel near Bursa . |
| 25 | With Main Street already a raving success and Babbitt about to hit the bookstores , de Kruif was in awe of the great novelist . |
| 26 | Yet the Steward and Moray were only youths and the Constable not much more , and inexperienced , with Sir Archibald scarcely a renowned warrior . |
| 27 | Centrally located close to Chinatown and the business district with Orchard Road just a 5 minute drive away , this hotel offers excellent value for money with a choice of good restaurants . |
| 28 | Joy come here for Mr Scott when Fwancis just a little boy . ’ |
| 29 | The arrival of the police to her Well Street home a short time later started the nightmare which continues for Joan even today . |
| 30 | A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! |