Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They make Utopia only half a dream ; |
| 2 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 3 | The benefit of this one as well is if , let's just say we , that you knocked him right down on his money force as cheap a buy as possible then ask if you can do a hundred percent . |
| 4 | The inventor says that a steel flywheel around half a metre in diameter ran store the equivalent of around 5 kilowatt hours of energy . |
| 5 | The new hand-held equipment , on test in Hereford and Worcestershire , uses a laser light beam to pinpoint cars almost half a mile away . |
| 6 | Well a bit more than eight pounds actually , it was over eight pound over half a stone . |
| 7 | Have n't you thought it costs three pound bloody sixty a prescription ? |
| 8 | ‘ There 's no need for a police station in a built-up area like this , when there 's a huge security force base just half a mile away , ’ he said . |
| 9 | All the energy and drive which gave to that campaign so electric a character in the first weeks of this year must find outlets for the same fundamental objectives in new , and yet familiar channels . |
| 10 | ICE also own a number of properties in nearby Nelson Street and plans are under way to improve those , possibly housing the London Road Development Association which has been created to oversee the regeneration of the nearby shopping area . |
| 11 | ‘ And Theo , ’ he confided , ‘ when I pass on the heath here such a woman with a child on her arm , it pierces me right through , the melancholy , and my eyes get moist . ’ |
| 12 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 13 | Christmas shoppers were given 25 minutes to evacuate the area before the van exploded in Market Street only half a mile away from the headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | It therefore gives little hint of what makes its author so extraordinary a figure . |
| 15 | Fifty weeks you know fifty weeks only ten a day is it worth putting a database in for only ten labels . |
| 16 | Other dinosaur track evidence reveals a medium-sized biped weighing about half a ton , seeming to run at 43kph , which is faster than a man but still considerably slower than a racehorse . |
| 17 | If the employer is looking to make a judgement on a candidate 's power of invention and imagination then such a question may be relevant but this is open to question if he is seeking to appoint a solid contracts officer . |
| 18 | It was directed by Charles Crichton , a veteran from Ealing , the studio that made Kind Hearts and Coronets , which treated serial killing as a joke almost half a century ago . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , come on ! ’ he rapped , his chin jutting , aggression too mild a term for it . |
| 20 | Erm , but still getting , but we maybe getting a broader front on either focus too narrow a beam , sometimes it 's too difficult to get that narrow boat to be on exactly the right spot . |
| 21 | The Intoxicating Substance Supply Act , passed in 1985 , makes it an offence to supply to a young person under 18 a substance which the supplier knows , or has reason to believe , will be used ‘ to achieve intoxication ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ My wife and I have lived in Fenny Drayton for a number of years , it is a small village on the Leics/Warks border about half a mile from the main A5 trunk road . |
| 23 | Cricket in Sri Lanka is indeed a tough job with the high humidity as big a factor as the near 100 degree temperatures and the weather does add extra pressure on England 's players at the end of a long and arduous tour as they try to regain a little bit of their lost pride . |
| 24 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 25 | If pre-exposure endows a stimulus with inhibitory properties then such a stimulus should readily come to serve as a CS- since the inhibition already acquired should give a head start . |
| 26 | Make colour 1 any shade you like , but remember that this will be the colour of the design screen you will be working on , so try not to make the colour too violent a shade , as this can be tiring to the eyes . |
| 27 | However , if we acknowledge that family communications follow a pattern developed over time , and this can be usefully observed and adapted with younger families , is it not reasonable to assume that with older families too such a process could be helpful in some cases ? |
| 28 | To turn around from the forward stance to face in the opposite direction , adopt the standard forward stance , and then move the right foot about half a shoulder 's width to the left , pivoting on the left foot and maintaining balance . |
| 29 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 30 | There 's a fellow called Sammy Meredith who 's every bit as good a sailor as I am . ’ |