Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I simply wan na say two things and that is this that within a month if this scheme is to work I believe that the council or the social services committee must draw up a long list of homes which it proposes to close and that long list will be in teams and that must be done not behind closed doors so that people know what is being proposed , we level with people who live in those institutions and they are fully acquainted with our , with our intentions and secondly I think it 's necessary to understand from this programme that it is not just refurbishment programme , it is a refurbishment and closure programme the simple equation being that the money that comes from closures from capital receipts and some revenue savings , actually goes into the rest to refurbish them . |
| 2 | If a women is killed , the payment is half that of a man . |
| 3 | Their deep slow wave sleep has , however , reduced to a quarter of the amount taken by the toddler , about half that of a twenty-year-old . |
| 4 | Scunthorpe 's faithful few in a crowd of 7,682 had huddled on the terraces like penguins on an ice floe as the dankness seeped down the Pennine valleys . |
| 5 | I am an extremely lazy cook and nervous of long recipes , complicated sauces or anything risky such as a soufflé . |
| 6 | " Auntie Eve " could always be relied on to take an interest in their studies , or come up with something exciting such as a picnic or a day in the bush when they were home from boarding school . |
| 7 | but it 's , it 's just this all for a transport |
| 8 | Travis smiled , and as Leith suddenly realised how she and Naylor with their arms about each other must look to anyone coming in , self-conscious all of a sudden , she stepped out of Naylor 's hold . |
| 9 | ‘ You seem very interested all of a sudden , Fran . |
| 10 | ‘ Honestly , Katie , I do n't know why you 're so insistent all of a sudden . |
| 11 | It is true that Beccaria 's classical programme has never been given a full trial ( the image of his public floggings and toiling chain-gangs rather than his denial of capital punishment may help the liberal-minded to feel this less of a loss ) . |
| 12 | SCMC is also said to improve overall detergency of a product by assisting in soil suspension and is regarded by some more as a suspension agent than a thickener . |
| 13 | You can have some more in a minute . |
| 14 | You drink that and you can have some more in a minute . |
| 15 | Baldwin 's ( 1985 ) study of parents caring for a severely disabled child showed that the mothers , economic activity rates were almost half those of a control group of mothers who did not have a disabled child ( 33 per cent and 59 per cent respectively ) . |
| 16 | If you are not fond enough of a paper to buy it in bulk , it would be worth it for a group of friends or a class to get together and buy a mill pack . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't be in that much of a hurry , ’ she pants . |
| 18 | Suppose you are taking a shot of something tall such as a giraffe . |
| 19 | Between the curving cross-spars , the sail adopts a vee form not unlike that on a Malay or triangular kite . |
| 20 | If you want something plain and simple such as a bra and brief set , go for a luxurious fabric . |
| 21 | While I was being so damned honest all of a sudden , there was no use pretending any longer that I had chosen the obscure fishing village of Collioure for a holiday for any other reason than because I had heard he usually went there . |
| 22 | ‘ What 's made you go poppy-red all of a sudden ? ’ he enquired , and with uncanny insight , ‘ Not indulging in romantic fantasies , I hope ? ’ |
| 23 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 24 | There are 25 luxurious en suite bedrooms , most with balconies and golf views , and 10 more in a golf lodge . |
| 25 | There 's much more on a Sunday . |
| 26 | As in Britain , the early social survey belonged much more to a reform impulse than to an effort to develop an explicitly social science methodology . |
| 27 | The ‘ revolution ’ refers not only to the paper binding of volumes ( which had already occurred in the nineteenth century ) but much more to a shift in distribution methods , away from specialist outlets for books . |
| 28 | ‘ I think there was much more of a sense of rivalry between them , ’ he told me . |
| 29 | erm But I do think that women need to have much more of a sense of their own power , or at least of the fact that they 're not as powerless as they think of themselves as being , and so they can say when the tutor puts his hand on their knee or something like that ‘ I 'm sorry , would you take your hand away , that 's not part of our relationship ’ or something that just so they do n't have to feel so bad about it . |
| 30 | Maybe it would do Isobel good to be dragged out by someone she would feel at home with , and a man of her own age would cause much more of a stir in the neighbourhood . |