Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE search is on for a dog fit for a queen and the auditions are to be held in Darlington . |
| 2 | Frying Tonight was written 20 years ago by Gerald Priestland , known better as a BBC foreign correspondent , and draws extensively on trade Press columnists like ‘ Anchovy Sauce , ’ ‘ Dorsal Fin ’ and the wonderfully named Molly Codling . |
| 3 | The old cricket pavilion was demolished and then cobbled back together as a grandstand able to accommodate up to fifty spectators . |
| 4 | The operating system to hold it all together as an application transparent , single system image , is the Chorus V.4-compatible micro-kernel-based system , on top of the ISIS message broadcasting algorithms from Cornell University ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 5 | A sculpture representing a king and queen was broken by the builder 's labourer who found it , revealing that the metal of the faces was only about a millimetre thick . |
| 6 | Anyway , she hit the hedge which is only about an inch thick and found there was nothing this side . |
| 7 | By the time you 've finished , if you are n't the best of mates and invited down for a vair long weekend in the cuntrair , I can only say — Air nair . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've discussed the idea of continental championships in each of the disciplines and bringing the best skiers together for a Masters final late in the season . |
| 9 | I realise that a parking space next to an overflowing litter bin , in between a lorry full of cattle carcasses and a carload of adolescents playing heavy metal with their windows open on a sound system loud enough for Wembley Stadium , is not exactly the quintessential southern English landscape that would inspire a Constable painting , a Betjeman poem or an Elgar concerto — but it is the best you are going to get . ’ |
| 10 | NASA 's Copernicus ultraviolet satellite was shut down after a record eight-year lifespan . |
| 11 | A single Troy ounce can be beaten into a sheet a hundred feet square and only of an inch thick . |
| 12 | The number of signatories to the letter — and up to 50 other House Democrats might agree with its terms , as well as perhaps 25–30 of the 56 Democratic senators — means that a ‘ UN ’ resolution could pass Congress only with a majority small enough to be politically unacceptable , and might well fail . |
| 13 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 14 | Leading in with a Simon Templar-style '60s intro , it rips into a raw guitar riff part nicked from old punk chestnut ‘ Jet Boy Jet Girl ’ , Jim Bob ranting eloquently about the state of pop and the industry 's gratuitous use of glamour girl sex to prop up videos by losers like Lionel Richie and Robert Palmer . |
| 15 | Then John Williams , head of Chrysalis A&R , makes a few crap jokes about the wonderful marketing campaign the EC have been doing , plastering the blue'n'yellow LP cover all over Europe , before weighing in with a Mike Smash-style ‘ cue the music ’ and actually playing three ‘ cuts ’ from the album . |
| 16 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |
| 17 | The next shop yielded a heap of half-finished wooden pattens , the footwear used by field workers , along with a satchel full of long nails and several hammers . |
| 18 | Le Bugue is a place you 've probably never heard of before now : it 's in France , and they 're having a 16ft wide 6ft tall ramp along with a 12ft wide 4ft tall mini being constructed at a Summer Camp , along with some street ramps and handrails . |
| 19 | Interest is paid gross and the account remains exempt from tax provided all capital deposited stays in the account until the fifth anniversary of its opening , along with an amount equal to basic rate tax on all interest credited . |
| 20 | In 1540 , the Crown extracted from Parliament four fifteenths and tenths , together with a subsidy payable over two years . |
| 21 | Last weekend in Rome these ex-policemen , together with a Madrid drugs-squad inspector , a thoughtful chap from Holland 's Office for Alcohol , Drugs and Tobacco , a French judicial officer and a slew of academics from Harvard , Colombia ( the South American one ) , Venezuela , even Britain , founded an International League against Prohibition whose ideas will be familiar to regular readers of The Economist . |
| 22 | Together with a 50MB hard disk , 2MB of memory , Super VGA colour monitor , mouse , DOS and windows the new machine will become Elonex 's entry-level up-gradeable computer , with a price tag of about £925 . |
| 23 | The material retained in each successive sieve is emptied in turn on to a sheet of glazed paper , the sieve tapped gently in a direction diagonal to the meshes and swept with appropriate sieve brushes ( camel hair for fine apertures , brass for coarse screens ) to dislodge particles which have become firmly held . |
| 24 | While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period . |
| 25 | In East Africa a gracile and a robust form of man–ape seem to have coincided and overlapped ecologically for a time — perhaps in a manner comparable to chimpanzees and gorillas in certain areas of their ranges today . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the system also came under attack as being unfair — hence undermining consent by calling into doubt the legitimacy of both the mode of election and the government produced by it — and for facilitating the adversary relationship between the parties , a relationship that significantly influenced public policy , but did so in a manner harmful to the interests of the country . |
| 27 | Speaking only from a base financial standpoint , there is probably no book of which people hold higher hopes than the Bible , and none where they are more doomed to disappointment . |
| 28 | In addition , the right of control conveyed by the ‘ no disp ’ clause can be exercised only in a manner consistent with the carrier 's normal operations of storage , loading , and unloading . |
| 29 | Other strings have anything from seven to many hundreds of micro-fibres which are then twisted together in a way similar to natural gut . |
| 30 | These may include a welcome cocktail party , a Turkish night , an evening meal together in a restaurant high above the bay , or a visit to beautiful Gümüslük bay . |