Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Ramsey said , ‘ I think you will find Lincoln rather a quiet place . ’ |
| 2 | And we try to show that retirement can be a rewarding and fulfilling I find it so anyway so I can sell things in that er sense having an experience rather a young person talking to older people how er fulfilling it wis is in retirement . |
| 3 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |
| 4 | For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out . |
| 5 | As Dicey says , ‘ the appeal to precedent is in the law courts merely a useful fiction by which judicial decision conceals its transformation into judicial legislation ’ . |
| 6 | Normal was what people said some of their actions and relations were , from time to time , and in Marcus 's experience what they said they were bore only a vague relation to their actual forms and configurations . |
| 7 | Since there is at present only a small pool of people with experience in this area the use of practitioners as trainers provides an element of ‘ training the trainers ’ in the course team . |
| 8 | The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake . |
| 9 | When sequences are similar the team will indicate their preferences so a rough cut can be made by the editor , who joins all the desired sequences together and cuts the whole thing to the exact time . |
| 10 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 11 | I would like to see a streamlined funding system operated by a simple agency with lead responsibility Perhaps a defined percentage should be made available to voluntary organisations I would like to see proper involvement of voluntary organisations at all levels of the Joint Planning Process . |
| 12 | The English columns kept arriving , but of course only a small proportion of the great host could move up to occupy that terrace position . |
| 13 | He enclosed a cover note , explaining in his clerkly style that it was of course only a rough estimate , and that I was n't beholden to reimburse him penny for penny . |
| 14 | That will bring the eventual budget down a fine tune particularly with regard to er recommendations of the housing committee with regard er to the erm which clearly there will be some people . |
| 15 | You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees . |
| 16 | Unfortunately for this theory , the genes carrying tail-reduction in the two cases are quite different , and the Manx and the Bobtail bear only a superficial resemblance to one another . |
| 17 | To a landlord a dwelling may be a unit of accommodation or an item of investment : to a lawyer the dwelling may be a " house " or a " flat " or a set of " premises " , in other words only a legal concept ; but to the occupier the dwelling is his home … |
| 18 | ‘ He died of a stroke only a short time after Mamma left him . ’ |
| 19 | After the shop , Mrs Hollidaye took Dot down a shady footpath , moist with ferns and ivy , heavy hedge-tops meeting overhead . |
| 20 | Within the fragments only a limited amount of variance in the ordering of the tales is possible ; rather more diverse is the order in which the fragments can be and are found to be arranged . |
| 21 | Richard Cunningham , a botanist who had been trained at Kew by William Townsend Aiton , elder brother of John Townsend Aiton ( who had trained Gould as a gardener at Windsor Castle ) had been murdered by Aborigines only a short time before Gould 's departure while collecting on an expedition along the Murray River . |
| 22 | The breed is prone to occasional stomach troubles and bouts of enteritis so a good-quality diet is essential . |
| 23 | As a result only a thin stratum of wealthy native merchants developed . |
| 24 | Correct parrying requires of the defender only a simple movement of the wrist . |
| 25 | However , this off-the-shelf technology proved unsatisfactory in practice so a local team , headed by Ken Calvert , set about designing building and evaluating their own variant . |
| 26 | In Carlyle Mansions itself , Hayward 's own rooms were at the front of the building and looked over the river and the gardens while Eliot satisfied himself with a study and bedroom down a dark passage at the back of the building . |
| 27 | Even with the support of Meretz and the five Arab seats , of which Hadash took three and the Arab Democratic Party ( ADP ) two , this would give Labour and its supporters only a one-seat majority unless Rabin was able to gain support among the 16 religious party Knesset members . |
| 28 | He took Mould to the room without any floorboards , and helped him piece together a bizarre contraption containing metal beams , weights and cogs . |
| 29 | Bingo No volunteer has come forward to assist with the bingo sessions so a new rota has been drawn up . |
| 30 | In other words the maximum movement , which now occurs in both directions , is around five per cent and in practice generally a good deal less . |