Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At eleven o'clock a group of children came over the hill .
2 Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs .
3 Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status .
4 After that only a matter of confidence .
5 It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately .
6 Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ?
7 Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear .
8 Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline .
9 Or is this perhaps a product of the over-excited brain of a middle-aged and somewhat disparaged poet , when he finds that his ignored , his arcane , his deviously perspicuous meanings , which he thought not meanings , since no one appeared able to understand them , had after all one clear-eyed and amused reader and judge ?
10 Is this perhaps a comment on the inadequacy of the law and the difficulty of policing and getting convictions ?
11 And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications .
12 Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ?
13 Unfortunately , the print echo is only active whilst the CLI indicator is present , so this not a lot of use to us !
14 is this not a recipe for disaster ?
15 Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ?
16 Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’
17 Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ?
18 ‘ Is this just a game for you ?
19 ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards .
20 He followed this up a couple of years later with Sophie 's Choice opposite Meryl Streep .
21 The June 1987 general election resulted in the return of Paias Wingti 's coalition government which had first come to office in November 1985 following a vote of no confidence in the government of Michael Somare .
22 There was a commitment to the maintenance of full employment , with the Keynesian doctrine that budgetary management could achieve this now a matter of economic orthodoxy .
23 Joint communiqués were signed on the establishment of diplomatic relations ( i ) with China on Sept. 30 following a visit to Beijing by a Brunei delegation on Sept. 8-11 ; and ( ii ) with the Soviet Union on Oct. 1 in New York .
24 Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ?
25 Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ?
26 An alternative approach is to measure share price changes ; prices at any given time reflect the market 's estimate of future performance and if it is assumed that this estimate is reliable then a comparison of ‘ before and after ’ figures should provide an accurate guide to the change in earning potential brought about by merger .
27 I said well it 's funny how a friend of mine gets it , she says well she must be on Income Support with an underlying something like an , a different pension on top of her Income Support , which she is is n't she ?
28 Funny how a thread of dialogue at one table can silence a roomful of people , is n't it ?
29 It 's funny how an animal like a cow or a horse would swim you would think it would be
30 Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ?
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