Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For instance , he observed expansions of English foreign trade on about a 50-year cycle from the 1790s to 1810 , from 1842 to 1873 , and from 1893 to 1914 , each separated by periods of consolidation . |
| 32 | I mean I do that with a , you know when I 'm sort of on about a long delivery talk about |
| 33 | You were always the one that was on about a regular life . ’ |
| 34 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 35 | John Sinclair , who runs Cliveden so successfully as a luxury hotel , and his attractive wife , guests went in to dinner in the dining-rooms . |
| 36 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 37 | Then she reaches nervously for a hand-rolled fag . |
| 38 | His wife Maggie kept on eye on him but said it was all right for a special occasion and that he could rejoin the pledge tomorrow . |
| 39 | ‘ It 's all right for a special occasion . |
| 40 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 41 | If the hull is tilted to the right it will steer to the left whilst it will veer right for a leftward tilt . |
| 42 | In the hippy era images filtered weakly through a hairy sea of tangled tresses . |
| 43 | He stressed : ‘ These policies are n't for our benefit — usually the bank is paid up-front as a preferred creditor . |
| 44 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |
| 45 | College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly for a one-day strike and a total ban on flexible working over pay , the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education announced yesterday . |
| 46 | Rohan 's brows lifted appreciatively as a creamy liquid was ladled into his bowl . |
| 47 | Speedy 's lay-off Thomson collides the Forest man Gemmell and the whistle has gone eventually for a free kick to Forest . |
| 48 | The real balance effect may be represented diagrammatically as a rightward shift in the IS curve . |
| 49 | She was doing all right as a nursing orderly in a geriatric hospital — one of her favourite ‘ legitimate ’ jobs as it gave her easy access to sleeping pills and downers . |
| 50 | A provision for the payment of a salary to a partner , effectively as a preferential share of profits . |
| 51 | MDC has clearly demonstrated a capacity to realise physical renewal of its initial area and has operated effectively as a single-purpose agency . |
| 52 | Commissioning research on the use of deprivation indices in allocating formulas is therefore often seen as a means of arguing more effectively for a bigger share . |
| 53 | It is extremely difficult for workers in Community Mental Health Centres to focus their efforts effectively for a dispersed community of people with long-term problems if their work is constantly being interrupted by crises and emergency work . |
| 54 | At a recent CIT Metropolitan Section meeting , Brian Cox , MD of Stagecoach Rail , suggested a National Ticket Office through which tickets could be sold , presumably through a nationwide computer facility . |
| 55 | The managing director of Oxford United said the club will fight on for a new stadium , despite planning problems . |
| 56 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 57 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 58 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 59 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 60 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |