Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's just like my dad — he 's always on about what a struggle he had in the days of his youth and I get it all too easy . |
| 2 | She was the one who had always gone on about what a paragon my father was . |
| 3 | Our concern , however , is not with the difficulties of aesthetics , but only with what a critic writes of aesthetic experience , and how useful such an account may be . |
| 4 | I used to go along with him a lot of the time . ’ |
| 5 | Such a given behaviour ( innate is the conventional term , but I prefer to avoid it if possible , for it carries along with it a load of redundant ideological baggage ) ensures that appropriate responses are made to particular stimuli without the need for trial-and-error learning , but at the expense of limits to both the range and the flexibility of the response . |
| 6 | Track ( i.e. hum the tune silently out aloud to yourself a bit behind the speaker ) while listening to radio , TV , public speeches , and to conversations going on around you . |
| 7 | The only thing you had to watch out was that she did n't start to stagger and put one of them feet down on you a bit sharp , or fell on you as she were a-swaying about with her jink-back . |
| 8 | She goes , Well I 'll get the teachers to calm down on you a bit . |
| 9 | But both sexes are down to one a day by the age of 18 , said Dr Connor , who interviewed 1,000 youngsters in his research . |
| 10 | Pull it down to something a bit more real that you can get hold of . |
| 11 | Sir , I think I have the advantage over most round the table , if not all that I have actually put in to you a paper which I think sets out very clearly the basis of my er choice of the A sixty four south erm sector and I wo n't reiterate those points . |
| 12 | For all at once she could feel sweeping in on her a sense of utter desolation , the like of which she had n't known for years . |
| 13 | As all around me a nation explodes into an orgy of joyous celebration , I feel a little of what Mrs Thatcher must 've felt when the tabloids went into rapture about her ‘ ten glorious years ’ . |
| 14 | " But there are many other good signs all around us a maiden holding a spray of blossoms … a serpent entwined around the root of a lotus a phoenix in a prayerful attitude . " |
| 15 | " We 're most of us a bit hard of hearing in here , dear , " said the knitter . |
| 16 | He is throwing away for it a lifetime 's dedication to classical studies . |
| 17 | Not for him a trip to the cinema , or a visit to the local zoo . |
| 18 | A copy is not of itself a will and therefore even if the copy is kicking around er that wo n't effect the matter . |
| 19 | But I did get away with it a couple of times on this record . |
| 20 | Well you prick it all over with your a knitting needle or something |
| 21 | He rode away from me a day ago . |
| 22 | ‘ Leniency is not in itself a vice , ’ he added . |
| 23 | While new and innovative technology is exciting to work with and highly regarded , it is not in itself a guarantee of a profitable product . |
| 24 | While new and innovative technology is exciting to work with and highly regarded , it is not in itself a guarantee of a profitable product . |
| 25 | For , says Mr Lawson , a trade deficit is not in itself a problem if the world is happy to finance it . |
| 26 | ‘ At the beginning , you indicated that the absence of sex in your marriage was not in itself a problem . |
| 27 | Simply to grow old is not in itself a problem . |
| 28 | Though a literary portrayal of such rigidly defined domestic roles is not in itself a problem , an uncritical reading of these in an English classroom probably is . |
| 29 | This , of course , is not in itself a prescription of a conflict rule , merely a reference to general conflicts rules . |
| 30 | 4 ) , that ‘ a class is not in itself a community ’ , that ‘ the emergence of societal , or even communal action from a common class situation is by no means a universal phenomenon ’ , and that ‘ the extent to which ‘ communal action ’ and possible ‘ societal action ’ does emerge from the ‘ mass actions ’ of the members of a class is linked to general cultural conditions ' . |