Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but you know how peculiar a lot of people are ! |
| 2 | The Parks Department 's budget might be dwindling all the time , but with the help of local businesses , the Council 's spending what little money it does have adding a splash of colour to otherwise rather ordinary landmarks like shopping centres and roundabouts . |
| 3 | And they were popular a lot of people bought them |
| 4 | The social isolation of women is not nearly as popular a cause for concern as it was in the 1970s . |
| 5 | I also had odd ends of three cones of that random yarn that was so popular a number of years ago . |
| 6 | Only the A E U have the courage to stand up against big brother , the T U C , warning against denying the unemployed a glimmer of hope . |
| 7 | It was Robert who padded solemnly across the little bridge , waded into the pond to the culvert 's egress , and wrenched the grating from its mouth , setting free a rush of mud and water from which he lifted out , first , Nicandra 's dog ( exhausted and bleeding but quite ready to bite ) , then Lally , every stitch she wore soaked and clinging close as a swimsuit to her solid child-size body . |
| 8 | For a right of participation to be meaningful it would obviously require as free a flow of information as possible and the development of institutions securing equality of access and influence for all participants . |
| 9 | Given too free a hand during years when he , like David II earlier , had fallen into English captivity , they resented the disciplines which their returning king was determined to impose on them in the cause of national unification . |
| 10 | ‘ I can assure you , ’ he told Tom Driberg , ‘ that if I was left as free a hand in French Indochina and the Netherlands East Indies as I was left in Burma , I could solve both these problems by the same methods ; though it is heartbreaking to have to leave the political control to other nations when we are really in military control . ’ |
| 11 | That is too meagre a ration of choice for a country that spends the equivalent of nearly a full day out of every week of its life in front of the set . |
| 12 | And so , despite the undeniably galling aspect of being asked to rejoice in so meagre a victory after decades of hammering on the hallowed portals of power , I believe it would be foolish to look this particular gift-horse in the mouth . |
| 13 | ‘ It was at a photo-shoot a couple of days before a charity gig at the National Stadium in Dublin , ’ he says . |
| 14 | An overlay of interactive colouring them followed to bring an element of form , though intentionally avoiding too detailed a degree of modelling . |
| 15 | I I if it can be done in the greenbelt policy it must be done in E two and there can be no argument that it is not too detailed a matter in greenbelt policy but too detailed a matter in E two . |
| 16 | I I if it can be done in the greenbelt policy it must be done in E two and there can be no argument that it is not too detailed a matter in greenbelt policy but too detailed a matter in E two . |
| 17 | The decision as to how detailed a breakdown of costs is required is crucial and should only be taken at a high level in the management structure . |
| 18 | the arrangement was placed low down so that the angle of view presented me this as interesting a set of shapes as possible . |
| 19 | They are about an interesting a bunch of people that you could ever hope to meet . |
| 20 | I 'm afraid a lot of bits fell off during the '80s . |
| 21 | Where do you think that more money needs to be spent ? erm well , the government are in the process of launching a massive new initiative called Care in the Community erm I 'm afraid a lot of people working in my neck of the woods find this rather well not amusing , but erm it 's slightly hysterically amusing , because the amount of money that would be needed to fund the projects that are identified as being necessary is enormous , and the government is in no way going to be putting up that sort of funds erm so it comes down to money , and particularly in this community care area . |
| 22 | As Gavyn Davies , who may be better known to some Opposition Members than he is to us , has said , the interesting thing is at how high a proportion of GDP investment has settled , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 23 | Puffer , for instance , suggests that the restricted family life a psychological career demands is too high a price for women to pay , and urges them , instead , to study ‘ borderline subjects ’ , a ‘ fringe of specialist research ’ , or do consulting , criticism , and reviewing ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 : 41 ) . |
| 24 | So had they put too high a sort of level for subsistence ? |
| 25 | It 's just the actual A lick of paint here and there basically and |
| 26 | This fabliau makes explicit a linkage between vagina and mouth that we find implied elsewhere amongst the fabliaux : e.g. in Le Chevalier qui fist parler les cons , " The knight who made the cunts talk " , or Berengier au lonc cul , " Berengier of the long arse " , where a woman disguised as a knight makes her recreant husband kiss what seems to him to be her exceptionally long arse . |
| 27 | Before a demoralising defeat when challenging Mike Tyson for the world heavyweight championship two years ago Biggs would have probably been too dangerous a proposition for Mason but something has gone from him since then and he was unable to fulfil bold pre-fight assertions . |
| 28 | In the month that WWII broke out , Trumbo 's pacifistic novel about the previous bash was issued and instantly suppressed ( a move with which , incidentally , the author was in full agreement , feeling it too dangerous a book for soldiers already in the field to be exposed to ) . |
| 29 | First , the Freedom of Information Acts give an individual a right to information possessed by the government about him or her and the government may have to justify non-disclosure in court . |
| 30 | Annunziata , who had so personal a reason for resentment , made no such criticisms . |