Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As more people choose to enjoy the horse for leisure and sporting activities , the British Equine Event will bring together everyone with a serious interest and involvement in horses . |
| 2 | As more people choose to enjoy the horse for leisure and sporting activities , the Event will bring together everyone with a serious interest and involvement in horses , and those with the land and resources who may wish to utilise them for a new equine business . |
| 3 | 2.24 This type of person can be compared with a younger man in a less promising position , or perhaps someone in a hazardous occupation such as a steel erector or a steeplejack . |
| 4 | He was aware of the strong emotional needs people had for certainty and for a surrogate parental-authority figure , and he was always wary of the tendency among some to turn psychoanalysis into a religious system , and perhaps himself into a sacred authority . |
| 5 | Blunt object I was interested to note that your November cover star Marky Mark is apparently something of a born-again cockney , a fact betrayed perhaps by the self-descriptive rhyming slang on the front of his baseball cap … |
| 6 | The rest of the Mackintosh building is beautiful , the corridors twisting inside it like a folded castle in coloured stone , the light from the stained glass in the inch-thick doors … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So what about a juicy bit of exhibition Speciale before catching the train ? ’ |
| 8 | And she 's the youngest , so what with a doting granny and seven big boy cousins and brothers to look after her … ! ’ |
| 9 | Soon he is befriended by the kindly German ‘ Doc ’ ( Armin Mueller-Stahl ) who is interned in the local prison And we see him taught to box and fend fro himself by a likeable petty thief ( Morgan Freeman ) . |
| 10 | ‘ She was a happy , lively and adventurous girl — not one for a quiet life . ’ |
| 11 | Get something with a good conductance , not something with a high resistance but something with a high conductance . |
| 12 | Is there not something of a permanent swell running in that vicinity ? |
| 13 | Should not we as a practical matter offer them the facilities of Burghfield and Dounreay to do something about the beryllium and other toxic compounds which are doubtless leaking from ill-maintained equipment ? |
| 14 | He towered over everybody like a strapping Gallic chieftain . |
| 15 | Of the Paternoster Square development , what he wanted to see , he said , was ‘ a roofscape that gives the impression that St Paul 's is floating above it like a great ship in the sea ’ . |
| 16 | Caroline Fairley , wife of Lt-Commander The Honourable Charles Fairley , RN , had apparently lost control of a car that was not hers on a small country road in Oxfordshire and crashed into a tree . |
| 17 | So she suddenly feels what 's like something like a red-hot knife being put into her stomach . |
| 18 | Right , so this is always a positive number , so it 's always one minus a positive number . |
| 19 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 20 | It is always something of a memorable sight to see that magnificent banqueting hall employed to its full capacity and that evening was no exception . |
| 21 | it is a comment upon current government policy towards schools and education in general that one can find hardly anyone with a professional interest in education who does not have reservations about how it will work in practice . |
| 22 | Almost always anyone with a white coat in a film is messing about with retorts , pouring liquids into flasks and changing the colour of the contents . |
| 23 | The quiet discursive approach actually delivers the goods in terms of reforming this nation and increasing our prosperity more effectively than carrying on everything as a flat-out argument . |
| 24 | A big bald man and a little one with a red face . ’ |
| 25 | Meese was also something of a hard-line conservative , ever alert to any dilution of the faith or any hint of disloyalty to the president . |
| 26 | Since this is also something of a retrospective exhibition we have the much earlier painting of her Rome Studio in 1976 , where in a sequence of flat planes she explores every facet of light and the spaces between . |
| 27 | But no , not only is he or she a competent scientist , but also something of a lab-coat frocked economist . |
| 28 | Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd itself is also something of a corporate trompe l'oeil : its bonnets may still accommodate itinerant royal bottoms , but its equity — 75% of it — has , since September 1987 , been owned by ( of all things ) Ford . |
| 29 | But unknown to Bart he 's also something of a double agent . ’ |
| 30 | If you pick up something like a Super 400 you play things like Fade To Black rather than Heavy Fuel . |