Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Returning now to the Long Stable , we enter the Upper Paddock , and first observe a hot-water apparatus , so arranged as to supply practically a constant supply . |
| 2 | If it is directed against an opponent it ceases to be self-suffering and becomes instead a form of coercion , which is an aspect of violence , and as such unacceptable . |
| 3 | Duncan and Lisburn 's Neil McGrann were side by side after 50 metres , but it was the Ards swimmer who produced that little bit extra and came home a comfortable winner in a time of 1.10.13 . |
| 4 | In the key province of Ontario — which contained one-third of the country 's population — the majority in favour was so tiny as to give only a Pyrrhic victory to the supporters of the accord . |
| 5 | The approach to the senior staff of a Company has to be very cautious when putting forward a policy for alcoholism , drug addiction or other forms of addictive disease in the work-place . |
| 6 | Although the family ties were not very close , we have always been very friendly and spent quite a lot of time together . |
| 7 | She gets very down and depressed and rings here a lot . |
| 8 | By the time Mary was ready to go , her uniform was dry and showed only a faint mark or two . |
| 9 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 10 | But also you can get , you know you , you sometimes you can fall lucky and get quite a lot of prices from cold calling as much as reviewing this one little , renewing every , every six weeks and trying to think of something to say that you have n't said before , like I had n't told you or Pete , you know , things like that . |
| 11 | So there might be an advantage in working late and coming home a rather roundabout way , she reflected . |
| 12 | I knew when people were married and slept together a baby usually followed , but this did n't enlighten me about the facts of life . |
| 13 | He was studying her , taking in the dark , silky fringe brushed to one side , the golden eyes , long and tilted upwards a little at the outer corners , the straight nose , the generous mouth with its full bottom lip , and the firm , if not to say stubborn , chin . |
| 14 | About ½ inch ( 1.5cm ) or a fraction more below the selected bud , make a cut about ⅛ inch ( 0.3cm ) deep and sloping downwards a little as shown in Figure 17 . |
| 15 | Joseph , bare-footed and wearing just a shirt and blanket , had led a charge across the river to rescue the horses . |
| 16 | The tank is unfiltered but contains only a very few fish at any one time . |
| 17 | country carrier , a ‘ lumbering , slow , honest ’ fellow and devoted husband of the much younger Mary ( called Dot ) , who is very domesticated but has also a capacity for managing other people 's affairs ; to wit , those of Edward Plummer and May Fielding , who , but for Dot 's secret intervention , would have married the disagreeable Tackleton . |
| 18 | Yeah I know he took fucking and drank quite a lot as well and he was well buggered . |
| 19 | Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days . |
| 20 | ‘ My husband lived practically next door to a children 's home when he was young and had quite a few friends in there , ’ said Jackie . |
| 21 | Laud , who was Visitor of All Souls College , Oxford , had him made a Fellow there , overruling the objections of the Warden of the College , Gilbert Sheldon , that he was disqualified by being too young and held only a degree from Cambridge . |
| 22 | I take I take , only occasionally I go mad and let ripe and have quite a few , other times I just be on an orange juice and lemonade |
| 23 | Much to our confusion , the entire boat crew is Polish and speak scarcely a word of English . |
| 24 | The instrument is self-standing and requires only a mains connection . |
| 25 | This new construction can be cultured and develops quite a nice tooth , but now the sheet of cells that would have become the skin of the foot is induced to make enamel . |
| 26 | We must have the faith that vision can be developed in men just as creativity can be — it is trainable and represents only a higher evolutionary development and it is , therefore , open to all human beings . |