Example sentences of "[det] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you scroll that down a bit ? |
| 2 | I 'll turn that down a bit . |
| 3 | I 've got ta get that down a bit . |
| 4 | Turn that down a bit Kelly Ann |
| 5 | Turn that down a bit |
| 6 | You 've taken that down a semitone to make it minor . |
| 7 | This is a particular case of a general rule about Greenaway 's films : that only a person as obsessionally preoccupied with formal patterns as the director — and that is a tall order — can properly share his shock when death turns out not to be deterred by lists and games after all . |
| 8 | The advantages in determining serum 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one concentration are that it is an even simpler method , that only a serum sample is needed , that no radioactivity needs to be used , and that it is less time consuming . |
| 9 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 10 | Professor Everitt has written that innkeepers were among the most mobile elements in the community , but that only a minority established dynasties that lasted for three or four generations . |
| 11 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 12 | But according to Israeli officials , most of the Soviets choose to live here in Tel Aviv or Haifa in Israel proper , and that only a fraction , less than one per cent , go to the occupied territories . |
| 13 | The next Council , that of Vienne , south of Lyons , took place from October 1311 to May the following year , and was unusual in that only a selection — though a geographically fairly wide selection — of bishops were invited . |
| 14 | that only a fool would navigate . |
| 15 | A face , she sighed , that only a mother could have loved . |
| 16 | Some woman-centred psychologists think , too , that only a woman should study female subjects , and that she should do so as much as possible , because only she can understand them . |
| 17 | After that only a matter of confidence . |
| 18 | It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately . |
| 19 | Within a cell what happens is this right a cell , what happens is that erm D N A is copied on to something called erm R N A , which is a kind of template , messenger R N A , it 's a kind of copy and it 's a single strand , corresponding to one of the strands on the original D N A with the same base structure . |
| 20 | We thought this rather a joke but his concern was academic , not snobbish . |
| 21 | Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ? |
| 22 | Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear . |
| 23 | In general this only a problem if you want to change leads with a weaker climber . |
| 24 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
| 25 | Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline . |
| 26 | Or is this perhaps a product of the over-excited brain of a middle-aged and somewhat disparaged poet , when he finds that his ignored , his arcane , his deviously perspicuous meanings , which he thought not meanings , since no one appeared able to understand them , had after all one clear-eyed and amused reader and judge ? |
| 27 | Is this perhaps a comment on the inadequacy of the law and the difficulty of policing and getting convictions ? |
| 28 | the movement which , at the close of the colonial era , led it to be asked of the West what entitles its culture , its science , its social organization , and finally its rationality itself , to be able to claim universal validity : was this not a mirage associated with economic domination and political hegemony ? |
| 29 | The Kenyans have gone to enormous trouble to make this not a murder . ’ |
| 30 | Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ? |