Example sentences of "[det] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dwelt on this potential disaster so often , and with such emotion , that eventually a freak electrical fault did cause a fire . |
| 2 | You , of course , have your headquarters in Tunbridge Wells , is n't that rather a long way to have much contact with Brighton ? |
| 3 | When Liman , the Senate Counsel at the hearings , suggested that it had been ‘ on-the-job training ’ , North thought that rather a good description . |
| 4 | ‘ Or is that rather a naïve question ? ’ |
| 5 | And at this stage , is n't that rather an academic consideration ? |
| 6 | Coral polyps are each only a few millimetres across but working together in colonies , they have produced the greatest animal constructions the world had seen before man began his labours . |
| 7 | And Neighbourhood Watch is really to try that down a little bit . |
| 8 | Sir Patrick said that analysis backed up the view of Lord Colville , who conducted the review of the emergency laws , that only a small minority of cases involved allegations of police assaults inside the holding centres . |
| 9 | It is important to note , though , that only a small number of industrially advanced countries may be able to gain economically in this manner . |
| 10 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 11 | Thus , Beed has claimed that ‘ since ownership is very widely dispersed … either it could mean , with Berle and Means , that no one individual or small group could gain sufficient votes for control , or , contradicting Berle and Means , that only a few per cent of votes was required for control ’ . |
| 12 | I saw then , through the one eye that would open , that my fire was scattered , that only a few wisps of smoke rose here and there . |
| 13 | It is difficult to imagine , as the swifts circle and the vast Edwardian lawn rollers rumble in the middle distance , while maids in pale grey and broderie anglaise move silently through a Zoffany interior , that only a short journey away lies the centre of Manhattan . |
| 14 | What a pity then , that only a meagre 11,768 people watched it . |
| 15 | I 'm not sure that Joyce thinks this altogether a good thing . |
| 16 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 17 | And we really have kept this down a barest minimum . |
| 18 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 19 | This only a short account of the main points of the Convention to alert exporters to what has been , up to now , an important aspect of International Trade which tended to be overlooked . |
| 20 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 21 | Society responds with oppression , which it justifies by again invoking myths , scriptures ( quoted or misquoted ) and proverbs , some ancient and some only a few years old , thrown up by the needs of everyday life . |
| 22 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 23 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 24 | Is this not a strange time to close offices which provide assistance for so many unemployed people ? |
| 25 | It will be demonstrated later that the correlation between the true area and the projected area visible to the camera is good enough to make this not a prime consideration . |
| 26 | Is this not a quick election fix rather than a programme of long-term investment to improve our competitiveness ? |
| 27 | Bryan Gould , the Labour Trade and Industry spokesman , questioned : ‘ Is this not a further example of the sort of conglomerate merger that has served British industry so ill in the past ? ’ |
| 28 | Can we just get it clear , has Goodricke bop now changed to Monday , or is this not a permanent ? |
| 29 | Is this not an intolerable interference with the freedom of action of any British Government , and is the Prime Minister aware that , in 12 of the past 18 years , successive Governments , Labour and Conservative , have spent more than 3 per cent . |
| 30 | This not an invariable pattern for monographs , but readers can usually expect that the central figure of a book will receive prominence at the expense of any other artists . |