Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked such a handicap certainty for the Tote Gold Trophy that he quite ruined the betting on the race when starting 7-4 on in a field of 10 , the smallest of the series . |
| 2 | down exhausted on to a chair . |
| 3 | Look at that properly in a minute . |
| 4 | The project will comprise a review of pertinent research findings--notably from the study of small businesses , urban geography and regional economics--together with an investigation of specific practical initiatives in the area of local business development . |
| 5 | Carolyn sat on her bed and swallowed the sleeping tablets , washing each down with a mouthful of water . |
| 6 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 7 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 8 | The chimps ' individuality has always delighted and fascinated her , and Jomeo and Gigi , two full-blown eccentrics , are given a chapter each in Through a Window . |
| 9 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 10 | Once viewed as not ample enough for a family meal , duck is now available in boneless breast fillets and joints which make portion control and carving easier . |
| 11 | your that we 've put that in as a recommendation . |
| 12 | I put that down to a lack of maturity and the effects of tension — there were many occasions when players tried to blast the ball into the net at 100mph instead of remaining cool under pressure . |
| 13 | So put that down for a second will we ? |
| 14 | You 'd gain if you avoided putting that down as a score draw , especially of course if it did n't turn out to be a score draw . |
| 15 | In Egypt , do you see what I mean , so that you can have and put that down as an example , so you can have . |
| 16 | We went to , er , we felt that we needed , er , a U S director because much of our business is in the U S with wide marketing experience we went to , erm , headhunters er , in America who drew up er , a list of sixty people , culled from their own research erm we narrowed that down as an executive to twelve . |
| 17 | And of course we used to have desk infect inspections , of course we used to take that down before a desk inspection you see , this we had a surprise inspection and lifted it up and saw this and read it out , read it , Right , he said , And we 'll go God 's going to help you do something else , come out . |
| 18 | Now as part of an annual goal which is to run some public courses later on in the year , erm , I 've broken that down in a way that I may go through later , to things that I have to do on , on a month by month basis , and this month I need to create the mailing list . |
| 19 | There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 20 | Nor is it stable enough for a faith without foundations . |
| 21 | The most densely populated town on the Nullarbor , Cook has 110 inhabitants , who live opposite each other on the widest street in the southern hemisphere , broad enough for a camel-train to make a U-turn . |
| 22 | We had major novelty value — it 's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft . |
| 23 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 24 | There had been enormous economic advances , which had been possible only on a basis of mutual assistance . |
| 25 | The burst of social legislation prior to 1914 was possible only within a context in which the most obvious social evils of the day , such as the poverty caused by old age , sickness and unemployment , had been identified and shown to be amenable to State action . |
| 26 | " Life is possible only within a movement which calls the world into question " , he was to note later in Le Cheval de Troie . |
| 27 | ‘ People in government should feel the way social processes are moving early , ’ he says , ‘ and that is possible only in a metropolis . |
| 28 | Eleven o'clock of a hurricane morning , Trent thought wryly . |
| 29 | Well ca n't , he said look have a word , and he said to me , you know , do you mind if we do like eight till eleven o'clock as a wedding party |
| 30 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |