Example sentences of "[adj] with [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's wrong with just a title , science or |
| 2 | As with all water fowl the female is less flamboyant than its partner and the duck is sooty brown with only a hint of a crest . |
| 3 | To Miss Taylor he was gently charming with just a hint of flirtatiousness in his manner . |
| 4 | Not this one ; it rides easy with only a trace of load-carrying compromise . |
| 5 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 6 | She can not hear that much of his business life is tedious , worrying , tiring and not all that exciting ; he can not hear and see her boredom and exhaustion in his fantasy that she is the one who has everything — not having to earn , not having to stir out each morning and so comfortable with only a baby to look after . |
| 7 | The third vulnerable group of the population are the very elderly with only a state pension . |
| 8 | Sound-insulating quilt is laid above the new ceiling , and though a good space between the new and old ceiling is ideal , in houses with low ceilings , the method can be quite effective with only a gap of an inch or two . |
| 9 | A role is concerned with how a person carries out his job , especially in terms of his own and others ' expectations of the job . |
| 10 | Next , specific action may be agreed upon that is realistic and measurable with perhaps a contingency plan lined up too . |
| 11 | It was a glorious day , warm and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky , but by late afternoon a fresh breeze was beginning to blow in from the west . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'd be happy with just a council flat but there are n't any going these days . |
| 13 | He really had very nice hands , large but well-shaped with just a shading of dark hair on the back of his wrists . |
| 14 | Everything , from the stables to their occupants , is immaculate with not a wisp of straw out of place . |
| 15 | The water was running at normal winter level with just a tinge of colour . |
| 16 | IT is billed as a comedy but director Ian Forrest admits when he first read the play he thought it ‘ very bleak with not a lot of laughs . ’ |
| 17 | It does n't take very long to master shaping methods and fairly soon the shaping can be hand-tooled with scarcely a check to the actual knitting while we attend to it . |
| 18 | The sky was clear and blue with not a cloud even in the west . |
| 19 | For more than a week we had suffered high-pressure gloom in the south of England but on the day of my flight we enjoyed 8/8 blue with not a bump in the air — Wing Commander 's weather ! |
| 20 | Experience was all , and I set out to grab it with both hands , drifting from country to country , from one relationship to another , a heedless , hedonistic round with never a thought for tomorrow . |
| 21 | It should have been cooler in the hills , but if anything , Lindsey thought drowsily , the heat was becoming even more intense with barely a breeze to relieve it . |
| 22 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's very entrepreneurial , and was n't satisfied with just a holiday home , so we 're now developing a new hotel which promises to be — and I quote Stephen now — ‘ the best in the Caribbean ’ . ’ |
| 24 | " Then I shall have to be satisfied with once a week at the Prego Café . " |