Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically . |
| 2 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 3 | In order to allow the experiment to be completed by subjects in one hour only a subset of the original films from Studies 2 and 3 were used . |
| 4 | It is suggested , therefore , that the husband 's solicitors should submit to the wife 's solicitors merely a copy of the last conveyance , together with a copy of any mortgage affecting the property and memoranda of any " sales-off " or other documents affecting the legal title . |
| 5 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election only a handful of very small parties that were genuinely political fielded candidates . |
| 6 | It is of course only a question of time and evolution . |
| 7 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 8 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 9 | The scales suggest the scales of a fish rather than armour ; was the priest perhaps a priest of Poteidan ? |
| 10 | The Welshmen , crouching low and running like hares , overtook the two who led the laden horse only a matter of minutes before they were themselves overtaken . |
| 11 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 12 | The profound changes in the economy and society which had swept the old feudal practices away were for Marx and Engels merely an expression of the profound changes which had first taken place in the mode of production . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , such a concentration only a fortnight before the examination — which is too often the accepted state of affairs — is quite useless as a means of understanding and learning the skills of the subject . |
| 14 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 15 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 16 | North facing rooms receive less light so a carpet with rich colours will make the room feel warmer . |
| 17 | Campbell 's survey of London trades in 1747 lists only a handful of female crafts all paid wages well below male trades . |
| 18 | The doubt may be a result of forgetting , but is the remedy only a matter of remembering ? |
| 19 | Or is the current wave of hooliganism in British football merely a continuation of old traditions , which we now are less willing to tolerate and more anxious to report ? |
| 20 | Alina scrambled up alongside , and found herself a rock just a couple of feet lower than his own . |
| 21 | Is the problem of losing weight just a question of vanity for most of us or a medical necessity ? |
| 22 | Technology is partly to blame : celluloid prints have been superseded by the smooth replications of digital imaging , and for modern Hollywood , as for the music biz , there is no such thing as the original cut just a series of alternative ‘ takes ’ or mixes . |
| 23 | A Darlington jeweller has become the new chairman of the town 's business club just a year after joining it . |
| 24 | At first he had felt a little out of place , but had finally arranged to play football once a week with other members of the centre . |
| 25 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 26 | The experimental programme involved group sessions once a week with a maximum of 16 patients in a group . |
| 27 | I think a minister has the right to take his pleasure once a week in a football stadium . ’ |
| 28 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 29 | Is Robben still an advocate of Howard Dumble amplifiers ? |
| 30 | As I understand it , the ruling states that if a chick makes tea once a week for the same guy — she gets half his dough . |