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

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1 ( The Supreme Court had held flag-desecration to be a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment , but this bill provided for only a $25 fine in cases of assault upon flag-burners . )
2 In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ?
3 But I really like the bass ; it feels as solid as a rock and represents a more worthwhile investment for not a lot more money .
4 So I think I 'm asking for just a bit more , more talks and where there is a , a home or homes in a rural area that may be the only home in that area , so it is available to local people that Social Services come in and there in an understanding in planning authorities first and now the actual criteria we 're working on because most local people will think that home is for local people .
5 This hypothesis was based on the finding of only a 30% positive response to acid perfusion in a series of 53 PSS patients .
6 A Soviet writer pointed out that this was the reaction of even a figure such as Sayyid Gailani , the head of the National Front for the Islamic Revolution , who was far more cosmopolitan than other resistance leaders and recognised the necessity of coexistence with the USSR .
7 The late Armand Hammer 's museum , which opened in December 1990 with a lavish $60 million building by Edward Larrabee Barnes ( likened by one critic to a consulate in a Middle Eastern emirate ) , but with only a $36 million endowment , has come under the management of the adjacent University of California at Los Angeles .
8 Further away , in the dim recesses of the shop , the individual items merged together , with just a leg discernible here , an upholstered arm protruding there .
9 He called for an inquiry into why a Madonna compact disc sells for the equivalent of £6.88 wholesale and £8.33 retail in the US compared with £13 and £15 in Britain .
10 To determine the Ca 2 + sensitivity of K + channels in inside out patches , recordings were attempted after the Ca 2 + containing ( 1.2 mM ) high K + bath solution was replaced with either a Ca 2 + free high K + solution containing 5 mM EGTA ( Ca 2 + concentration 10 nM ) or an EGTA buffered high K + solution containing 1 µM Ca 2 + .
11 Gel retardation was done in F9 EC whole cell extracts with either a class 1 ( tracks 1–4 ) or class 2 ( tracks 5–8 ) binding site in the presence of either preimmune or immune anti-peptide A ( antiserum 4 ) , together with either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 3 and 7 ) or peptide A ( tracks 4 and 8 ) .
12 For about a week new blisters will appear .
13 From just a foot long , the extendable side-handled baton can become a formidable weapon in an instant .
14 All over the country , sports , arts and adult education centres offer activities for under-fives , some from under a year old .
15 accommodation at Manda 's , they had a chap go in there a rape one of the girls in there did n't they ?
16 Now only three or four years later I 'd say of yeah we 're go to somewhere a bit quieter , so that kids can go to bed of a night time , we could have a apartment .
17 However , I prefer NO COMEBACKS , not badly treated on just a 4lb higher mark than when landing a comfortable victory at Redcar last month .
18 He needed the run when not disgraced in a valuable handicap last time , and is well in on just a 5lb higher mark than when impressively landing the Mildmay Of Flete at the Cheltenham Festival in March .
19 John Webber 's gelding is well in on just a 5lb higher mark than when landing the Mildmay Of Flete at the Festival in March .
20 This improving sort is well in on just a 5lb higher mark than his recent two-length success , and clearly has the beating of Fu 's Lady on that form .
21 He bolted up by five lengths ( could have been 20 ) at Kelso last time , and is very well in on just a 10lb higher mark .
22 As a coach to both a colts XV and a senior team I have seen the game my charges play become more free flowing by doing away with the juggernaut mentality .
23 Eventually , one rat adopts a submissive posture and its squeaks lengthen to about a second each , while their pitch drops to about 30 000 hertz .
24 ‘ Peter would have brought it himself , but I 'm over here a lot these days . ’
25 ‘ She 's really come on quite a lot this season with the help of Alison Midsummer , ’ said Dolly 's mother with modest pride .
26 For almost an hour that 's all he did .
27 The other catfish would also have to be left out , and there would be little scope for adding more fish later , but if you bear this in mind , you could create a comparable scene in a 36″ tank for quite a bit less outlay .
28 Actually , Ms Onoue also seems likely to stack up for quite a bit short of a billion when it comes to payback time .
29 So you 'll be worth quite a bit dead ?
30 Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan .
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