Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'll talk about that a bit more . |
| 2 | The constable apparently left the chamber at that , for half a minute later a cloaked figure came quickly out of the Garden Tower 's entrance and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 3 | I do not see how the Asian and West Indian pupils that I am responsible for can take on English behaviour for half a day when they are at school and change to their culture when they are at home . |
| 4 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 5 | At Hell 's Cauldron an opening at the base of the cliff alongside is one of a series of cave entrances piercing the banks of the ravine for half a mile upriver . |
| 6 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |
| 7 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 8 | For half a lifetime afterwards the same man stayed amongst us , but did little work after . |
| 9 | Day by day , under the hot September sun , it wound its way steadily southwestwards , stopping for a few hours here , for half a week there , while Balboa attempted — in most cases , successfully — to make and consolidate friendships with the leaders of the tribes on whose lands he trod . |
| 10 | Buchan , in the heat of the moment , threatened to leave the club after such a humiliation so near his old Sunderland home . |
| 11 | ‘ The report would not have come to the Bank as such a surprise either if PW … had more plainly and directly , more consistently , more comprehensively and , if they felt their messages were not being received , more vigorously , brought them to the notice of the Bank . ’ |
| 12 | I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’ |
| 13 | Under other constitutional systems , one can detect a vague principle that a parliament can not do indirectly that which it can not do directly , but there is little authority for such a doctrine here . |
| 14 | For such a plan not only allocates land for development but , as a consequence , distributes financial or environment costs and benefits . |
| 15 | So far the company has not registered any enthusiasm for such a payment either . |
| 16 | In spite of her determination to forget the man who had wronged her , never a day went by without her thinking of him , remembering , longing for such a love again . |
| 17 | By contrast , ‘ moral collapse ’ or synonyms for such a phrase rarely find their way into the accounts of the period provided by ‘ liberal-historians ’ . |
| 18 | Arrangements for such a meeting clearly presupposed an unusual degree of party collusion , but Baldwin persisted in expecting no new combination . |
| 19 | For such a task perhaps the term ‘ organiser ’ is sufficient . |
| 20 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 21 | So long as we 're talking about sort of half a mile away ma maximum or with other sort of proper travelling arrangements . |
| 22 | The same kind of escape ( or enlargement , if you look at the process in a favourable light ) is allowed for in a discussion of half a century ago in which the thesis that all novels contributed to a sense of escape from the artificial complexities of civilisation was turned to a commercial purpose . |
| 23 | The young trendies of the soft right , like their Fascist counterparts of half a century earlier , bragged about not giving a damn . |
| 24 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 25 | Three quarters of men now argue with their partners , against six out of 10 a year ago . |
| 26 | Trainees are given the opportunity to work towards a recognised vocational qualification ( 15% of those leaving ET in 1989–90 had acquired one ) , and are paid an allowance of 10 a week more than their benefit entitlement ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 6.6 ) . |
| 27 | I will emphasize the graphical nature of the Chart data structure , and the usefulness of such a structure both for representing linguistic data , and for analyzing the results of linguistic processing . |
| 28 | Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ? |
| 29 | I suspect that a number of Conservative Members support the establishment of such a committee most likely the right Hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Buchanan-Smith ) and the Hon. Members for Dumfries ( Sir H. Monro ) and for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale ( Mr. Lang ) . |
| 30 | The essential features of such a system already exist in nature . |