Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sticking up into the Gulf of Mexico like a thumb , Yucatan points towards Miami and New Orleans , each only an hour and a half from Merida by air . |
| 2 | We thought this rather a joke but his concern was academic , not snobbish . |
| 3 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 4 | Surely we should toughen this up a bit and say , I mean I 'm probably getting |
| 5 | Imagine the physical feeling we would experience if we were high up a ladder and began to feel it slipping , or if we had a ‘ near miss ’ in a car . |
| 6 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
| 7 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 8 | A sauna is available free twice a week and there is also a fitness room . |
| 9 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 10 | The tenancy is to be monthly at a nominal rent of £2 per month payable in advance , ( I would suggest that this should be payable once a year and would be grateful for your agreement to this ) . |
| 11 | The distinction between fixtures and fittings is crucial whenever a freehold or leasehold estate is sold to another . |
| 12 | He ate these twice a year or so |
| 13 | Other vulnerable lakes endure episodes of acidity in which pH drops below 5.6 when a rainstorm or snowmelt flushes acid , sulphate or aluminium into the catchment . |
| 14 | ‘ Did n't I dig that up a day or two ago ? ’ |
| 15 | Now we 've got a good long a session and hour and a quarter and tea afterwards . |
| 16 | This is only a guide , of course , but your score can be interpreted as follows : 9–15 Definitely a lark 16–20 Moderately a lark 21–26 Neither a lark nor an owl ; intermediate type 27–31 Moderately an owl 32–38 Definitely an owl |
| 17 | In everyday practice — and CSM does work every day and not just on those when a practolol or a benoxaprofen blows up in its face — this leads to an informality of conduct of business which was carefully cultivated by the late Sir Derrick Dunlop from the earliest days of the Committee on Safety of Drugs , CSM 's forebear . |
| 18 | The drawings show two creatures , one obviously a lion and the other an animal facing a man of muscular appearance ( fig. 14.30 ) . |
| 19 | From November to April wild-bird food is available once a day and nuts are suspended in a holder . |
| 20 | A new survey shows that one in three students gets drunk once a week and also takes drugs at parties . |
| 21 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 22 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 23 | If the story is newsworthy enough a newspaper or radio station will use it , however dull and uninteresting the press release . |
| 24 | The Central Market clinic was only open twice a week and , in common with the entire public health service , medicines were almost non-existent . |
| 25 | Yes , yes I use the M four quite a bit and I suppose I 'm so used to that I do n't mind it . |
| 26 | Er I think there 's er one problem of course is that regional newspapers do depend on situations vacant quite a bit and the situations vacant market is n't improving dramatically . |
| 27 | The heat on the rock flow became intense only an hour or two after sunrise . |
| 28 | Very fashionable about a year and a half ago again , because all these things come round again do n't they ? |