Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications . |
| 2 | An alternative approach is to measure share price changes ; prices at any given time reflect the market 's estimate of future performance and if it is assumed that this estimate is reliable then a comparison of ‘ before and after ’ figures should provide an accurate guide to the change in earning potential brought about by merger . |
| 3 | I said well it 's funny how a friend of mine gets it , she says well she must be on Income Support with an underlying something like an , a different pension on top of her Income Support , which she is is n't she ? |
| 4 | Funny how a thread of dialogue at one table can silence a roomful of people , is n't it ? |
| 5 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
| 6 | It has been suggested that this is crucial to the development of the disease state , as application of amiloride by aerosol alleviates the decline in lung function in CF. It is not yet clear how a loss of CFTR function leads to this increase in sodium absorption . |
| 7 | This information will usually make it clear why a class of share has been classified as equity or non-equity , but if necessary additional information should be given to explain the classification . |
| 8 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 9 | ‘ They made it official just a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 10 | Starfield and Mellits ( 1968 ) were successful in teaching 5-year-olds to hold on to their urine for as long as possible once a day for six months and enabled one-third of the children to become dry . |
| 11 | ‘ Incredible how a man of such undoubted physical courage can be so unsure of himself in other ways . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Cormack , however , shows that nearly half the Roman Catholic students entering higher education here ( 43pc ) come from working class homes , but only a little over a quarter of the Protestants do ( 27pc ) . |
| 13 | LEFT Home computers were unheard-of only a couple of decades ago ; now they have become routine magic' . |
| 14 | Very good very good now a lot of people take a long time to get that . |
| 15 | If the leadership of educational institutions is to be effective then a number of fundamental changes are needed . |
| 16 | If they are more complex then a plan for your care will be made and someone will be appointed to co-ordinate your care needs , and to discuss the plan with you . |
| 17 | Top 40 Hits , for instance , only lists records that entered the US Top 40 up to July 27 , 1991 and thus is well over a year in arrears . |
| 18 | He named Mark Flatts in his squad at Sheffield United only a week after giving 18-year-old Ian Selley his debut . |
| 19 | The company I worked for folded just a couple of weeks ago . ’ |
| 20 | Heavy Over a quarter of men questioned in the survey of 20,000 people top the safety limit — an 11 per cent increase on 1984 figures . |
| 21 | Some of these are indirect ways of reducing speeds , but nowhere is the direct way used ie a change in the law to bring speed limits below 50 km/h , applied street by street or across a zone , delimited by signs , enforced by the police , publicised widely , and then supported by infrastructural measures to ensure compliance as well as by environmental enhancement to reinforce perception of the changing function of the street to one of pedestrian ownership . |
| 22 | Applicants are strongly advised to contact the Adviser to Students with Special Needs early and when possible even a year before making formal application for entry to the University through UCAS . |
| 23 | Even so , I suspect that the visit of Pope next month would n't have been possible even a couple of decades ago . |
| 24 | In general only a minority of holidays are affected in this way and most changes to the published arrangements are small and whenever possible these changes will be advised at the time of booking or as quickly as possible after they occur . |
| 25 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 26 | ‘ Still , I suppose to the uneducated even a degree in Liberal Arts is impressive . ’ |
| 27 | In order to clarify the procedure we work the " general case " first and only then a couple of concrete examples . |
| 28 | You must have been rich then a couple of years ago ? |
| 29 | When IBM 's AT ( the 286 based computer ) was launched in late 1984 , it ran at 8MHz , but it was n't long before faster and faster oscillator speeds were used — a 25MHz 286 based machine was quite common only a couple of years ago . |
| 30 | The exhibits in the Brussels exhibition seem to have had in common only a concentration on clearly defined simple forms and a corresponding limitation of colour , and very few of them had anything at all in common with the work of Picasso and Braque . |