Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not So Much a Programme was to be broadcast on Friday , Saturday and Sunday nights . |
| 2 | Lord Pearce said , ‘ The only reasonable inference from the regular course of dealing over so long a period is that the buyers were evincing an acceptance of , and a readiness to be bound by , the printed conditions of whose existence they were well aware although they had not troubled to read them . ’ |
| 3 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 4 | A nut and bolt fixed the handle shafts to the top section : the blade spanner incorporates a small spanner for the nut , so only a screwdriver was needed here . |
| 5 | About half British trade was with the Commonwealth and Sterling Area ( countries trading in British currency ) whereas only about a quarter was with Europe . |
| 6 | ‘ Not long ago a campaign was launched in some republics and provinces to convert the branches of ‘ foreign' ’ organizations into separate basic organizations . |
| 7 | While they might wish GPs and JPs to retire automatically at 70 , not so hard a front was forthcoming apropos volunteers . |
| 8 | In general , the dirtier the receiving watercourse the less likely a discharge is to be defined as polluting , since the pollutant is less likely to have any measurable impact on the stream , less likely to be visible in already dirty water , and less likely to produce any noticeable ill-effects upon already scarce fish , plant , or animal life . |
| 9 | The younger her youngest child is , the less likely a mother is to have any employment , full or part-time , as Figure 2.6 shows . |
| 10 | so therefore a butcher was a butcher he was a tradesman in his own right |
| 11 | Arguably it 's not it 's not really a problem is it ? |
| 12 | Yeah , but they 're they 're not really a problem are they ? |
| 13 | It 's not really a burp is it ? |
| 14 | I 'm ok during the week , I 've got into a routine of getting up and going to and all the rest of it , but weekends I have every other weekend off , it 's not quite a routine is it ? , |
| 15 | Already quite a lot was known about the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIs ) , used mainly to treat arthritis and other joint inflammation ; about who was likely to receive prescription for them ; and about the adverse reactions they had caused . |
| 16 | Thus again a distinction is in principle possible between bands due to vibrations of different symmetry species ( Fig. 5.27 ) . |
| 17 | His temperament , in fact , was rather more a golfer 's than a racing driver 's and I ca n't be sure that the likes of Arnold Palmer and other big sportsmen who 'd made good in the States were n't in some way role models for the young Mario . |
| 18 | Once and once only a finger is placed , by Svidrigailov appropriately , on the fact that Peter 's city turns people odd . |
| 19 | They sometimes take the form of a palace garden seen from above , but more often a garden is simply implied by the juxtaposition of vegetal and foliate forms . |
| 20 | The more frequently a response is paired with a particular stimulus , the more likely it is to become a permanent relationship or habit . |
| 21 | The more precisely a theory is formulated the more falsifiable it becomes . |
| 22 | Once again a widow was to outlive her husband — how very different from the experience of those 18th-century Titford wives , worn out after years of child-bearing and dying in their fifties if not before ! |
| 23 | A third and almost as clear a theme is that even this inadequate level of services has been declining very fast , in both the USA ( Johansen and Fuguitt , 1984 ) and in the UK . |
| 24 | It seemed that they should stop and follow the sight of the two young boys , but it was too late they had been and they had gone and now only a disturbance was left behind . |
| 25 | Now only a handful are left to pack their bags . |
| 26 | Is it , is it really just a puffer is it ? |
| 27 | I think we 're the better all round team when playing well so a win is certainly not out of the question . |
| 28 | The money they wanted for us to use it even just a weekend was absolutely ridiculous which to me seems in opposition to the whole idea of the borough . |
| 29 | It was n't exactly a joke was it now Andy ? |
| 30 | But it it was like it was n't like a tap was n't . |