Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it for real or just a fantasy ? |
| 2 | plastic ones which were close to the ceiling , can you , could you give me a bit more of a description of that or perhaps a manufacturer 's name ? |
| 3 | The answer may be one or both of these and only a careful rescue package can avert a total disaster . |
| 4 | At a level above that is assembly language whose commands normally translate into a set , of ten or perhaps a hundred , machine language commands . |
| 5 | Not , however , a balanced diet made up of a bit of one and then a bit of the other , but an integration between the two . |
| 6 | Frankly nobody knows if the stuff is going to work when tens of thousands or even a million nodes are involved and that 's exactly what the large accounts are really interested in . |
| 7 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 8 | In 1986 , Christopher Lewinton was appointed as chief executive with more or less a free hand to do whatever he felt necessary . |
| 9 | Thank you bowlers , six for twenty-five and then a slight contrast , one for a hundred and fifty , but he bowled a great many overs , that 's er , he 's proving a very useful addition to the the England side and he 's being used erm very sensibly by Gooch . |
| 10 | They should devote themselves wholly to the problem of making life in South Africa , regarded as more or less a foreign country , bearable for self-respecting British men and women . |
| 11 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
| 12 | He died in 594 or perhaps a year later . |
| 13 | Easington 's MP from 1970–1987 and now a ‘ full time ’ member of the Lords , he moved house solely because of travelling problems . |
| 14 | The aim is to stabilise CO 2 emissions at 1990 levels by 2000 , with a tax equivalent to $10 on a barrel of oil , beginning with an increase of $3 in 1993 and then a further $1 a year until 2000 . |
| 15 | He missed only two fixtures in 1990–91 and obviously a grand future lies ahead of him . |
| 16 | Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases . |
| 17 | On Aug. 27 Lord Owen ( who as David Owen had been UK Foreign Secretary in the Labour government in 1977-79 and subsequently a founder and then leader of the Social Democratic Party ) was named as Carrington 's successor . |
| 18 | Miss Maton died in 1923 and about a year later I remember that my friends and I were playing in the street when there was a sudden shout from a young man . |
| 19 | The engine capacity was reduced even further , to 1½ litres in 1926 but then a Formula Libre , with no engine size legislation , came into force in 1928 . |
| 20 | The huge mountain at the far , Pakistani end of the Himalaya saw the tragic massacre of Willy Merkl 's German team in 1936 and eventually a solo first ascent by the legendary Hermann Buhl in 1953 . |
| 21 | In 1987 , the Gunners won the League Cup , followed by the Championship in 1989 and then a second title in 1991 . |
| 22 | except pure and simply a painkiller |
| 23 | The ARP warden , out of work since 1930 and now a man of standing with his steel helmet , army-style respirator and dangling whistle , banged on the door of number five pleading through the letterbox with its occupant . |
| 24 | Among those aged 85 or more a similar proportion of those with and without living siblings had been admitted to a home at some stage but among those aged 75 — 84 more of those without any such relatives had been admitted : 30 per cent compared with 17 per cent . |
| 25 | This awareness was a growing one , not a sudden flash of illumination , not a conversion at all but rather a slow , painful , at times embarrassing progress towards competence in communicating with deaf people . |
| 26 | In some cases this may even mean not using a page makeup package at all but rather a high-powered word processor like Lotus Manuscript , Word or WordPerfect 5.0 . |
| 27 | Q I have two little daughters , aged two and almost a year . |
| 28 | One was H. H. Howell who had joined the staff in England 5 years previously , at the age of 16 , and the other was Archibald Geikie , then aged 20 and already a recognised geologist . |
| 29 | , Thomas ( fl. 1589–1638 ) , land surveyor , was certainly practising by 1589 and possibly a year or two earlier . |
| 30 | We were taken out one by one and always a soldier stood behind , the barrel of his gun shoved between the prisoner 's shoulder blades . |