Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 2 | And if these stories are to be believed then Jesus was a walker too , liking nothing better that a hearty stroll in the beautiful Mendip Hills in Somerset . |
| 3 | Their consummate skill in limiting demands for independence on the royal demesne , while favouring them elsewhere where a royal confirmation might create allies , has often been remarked . |
| 4 | On the whole the scene is quiet , quieter at least than you would expect considering that this is one of the most important wholesale fruit and vegetable markets in France , the great distributing centre for the primeurs of the astonishingly fertile and productive areas of the Vaucluse and the Comtat Venaissin. — areas which less than a hundred years ago were desperately poor , inadequately irrigated , isolated for lack of roads and transport , earthquake-stricken , devastated by blights which destroyed the cereal crops and the vines . |
| 5 | Interactive Network Inc , pioneering interactive television services from its Mountain View base , pulled its offering of 2.5m shares due to market conditions , and has turned to four of its shareholders , National Broadcasting Co Inc ; Gannett Co Inc ; Rainbow Programming Holdings Inc and Paul Kagan , which together provided a short-term loan to enable it to continue its current operations . |
| 6 | Its more than a hundred and seventy years old and is now derelict , but conservationists hope it will be renovated by whoever buys it . |
| 7 | A further series of ‘ county ’ books is that devoted to ‘ The Making of the English Landscape ’ , of which more than a dozen have appeared under the Hodder & Stoughton imprint . |
| 8 | I have lived among them more than a third of my life , and still I do not understand them . |
| 9 | Anyone with a slightly cynical bent would have initial difficulty being convinced by the Inspirals ' contentment with their shrunken market — as someone who last saw the Inspirals dwarfed by a wealth of pyrotechnics and gargantuan lighting at Reading , your correspondent can only assert the view that their new scaled-down persona does them more than a few favours . |
| 10 | But that ‘ phone call was going to cost me more than a Big Mac . |
| 11 | Well that 's not quite the same as saying it is n't true , if I can just push you on that a little bit , you |
| 12 | Remember that a complementary practitioner will be treating you rather than a single symptom . |
| 13 | How would you know if it was an internal call for you rather than an external . |
| 14 | I can tell you confidentially that a well-known boxer who owns a company has been stake-building . |
| 15 | Do n't tell me that little toy cost you less than a hundred and twenty , Cullam . ’ |
| 16 | You better than a sleepin' pill . ’ |
| 17 | Details of the scale of commission payable in respect of this contract will be sent to you shortly after a firm application is made on your behalf . |
| 18 | Details of the scale of commission payable in respect of this contract will be sent to you shortly after a firm application is made on your behalf . |
| 19 | ‘ It 'll cost you more than a bloody ticket to get me to vote for you lot , ’ replied the fan . |
| 20 | Now if I point out that it 's in bold erm and it preempts a question that generally comes up and that is if we er we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles one way away from home and er if we had to send you , and it 's a big if I have to say it 's a big if in especially in the medical practice side , if we had to send you more than a hundred miles we will pay another five percent . |
| 21 | The problem is , the supermodel 's new exercise video could give you more than a bruised ego . |
| 22 | These are purely tourist attractions these days ; the drivers are all over sixty , and taking you more than a few yards could prove fatal . |
| 23 | A big estate will cost you more than an identical but small estate because there is the responsibility element of it . |
| 24 | And a dose of Calpol will sort you out and a nice rest when we get home . |
| 25 | What was she now but a maimed thing , repugnant and ugly , which no love could ever be large enough to embrace ? |
| 26 | And a one somewhere and a green one and |
| 27 | The most serious problem about complete participation is a moral one rather than a practical one . |
| 28 | The leadership was actually a collective one rather than a personal domination , and Law recognized his obligation to take the advice of those who were seen to be worthy of consultation by the party as a whole . |
| 29 | B but until we moved from there to street and we still only had one bedroom and one down but a little tiny back kitchen . |
| 30 | Well that was a one up and one down and a little tiny little scullery and it had a little tiny back yard . |