Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the more grown-up researcher who has successfully completed a week 's training or so , there is the ultimate goal , Hawaiian Tropic Royal Tanning Blend which has no protection at all . |
| 2 | Since it was fed with steaks served in gold-plated bowls , the creature presumably regarded a dog 's life in Romania as greatly preferable to its existence in Britain . ) |
| 3 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 4 | Oh yeah but in , better make a Stuart 's . |
| 5 | Yes , the difference of course is that in two day cricket you ca n't necessarily guarantee a result er and forcing wins was what we did n't quite manage to do , it was er it was a season of what might have been for the County Cricket Club er a very good season but not quite as successful as last year . |
| 6 | The house had been a rectory once , large enough and plain enough to contain a rector 's brood . |
| 7 | We responded swiftly co-ordinating a report outl , outlining the possible effects of itemised billing . |
| 8 | If they were lucky enough to find a skylark 's nest they might not want to spoil the countryside for all of us . |
| 9 | If you are lucky enough to obtain a Sear 's catalogue , or one offered by any number of American suppliers , you can give your card number and order what is required on the order form usually enclosed . |
| 10 | Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 11 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 12 | And are you able to tell me , Inspector , how a hundred and fifty year old dress sword came to be sharp enough to sever a man 's head ? ’ |
| 13 | I 've only got a week 's supply of that left so |
| 14 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 15 | I 'm a Sunderland supporter who lives down here , I 've only had a day 's notice . |
| 16 | It is no coincidence that combat soldiers , particularly paratroops , wear camouflage uniforms that somewhat resemble a leopard 's spotted coat . |
| 17 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 18 | ‘ You ca n't destroy , Bronson , you can only convert a thing 's form . ’ |
| 19 | Dirty wind is disturbed turbulent air behind obstacles ( such as trees , buildings and other boards ' sails ) that greatly reduces a board 's speed . |
| 20 | If a man who can generate pretty decent clubhead speed were inadvertently to use a women 's ball , the result would be higher trajectory with some distance loss — the clubhead will have compressed the ball beyond the point where the ball achieves its most efficient velocity . |
| 21 | I know now what her power is strong enough to shatter a man 's mind and cast him from this world . |
| 22 | It only takes a moment 's carelessness to make a present of your valuables to the thief . |
| 23 | Checklists may be used not only to determine a child 's current level of functioning , but also to establish the focus for subsequent intervention . |
| 24 | If you take these for a very long time you get a beard and a deep voice , but as I only needed a month 's supply I escaped such horrors . |
| 25 | The company , whose workstation and systems business is now housed in a wholly-owned subsidiary called Axil Workstations in San Jose , California , reckons Sun Microsystems Inc will only have a month 's headstart on it in the SuperSparc market . |
| 26 | we know , from research even amongst very young girls who only smoke a few cigarettes a week , that when they try to give up they get withdrawal symptoms , and so having a cigarette erm helps them |
| 27 | We know that the actual reorganization is going to cost thirty million I would have thought that every possible drainage problem could ever West Sussex could easily be rectified with thirty million pounds and we could all name a project er on which we would like to spend thirty million pounds . |
| 28 | It is easy to see why credo , ‘ I believe ’ , should be a dubious case : belief does seem to leave something to the discretion of a trustee , and there may well be doubt whether a rather tentative expression of belief sufficiently expresses a testator 's intention that a trust should be set up . |
| 29 | The worksheet is now big enough to hold a year 's data . |
| 30 | The tribunal will only allow a trader 's appeal against such a direction if it considers that Customs could not reasonably have been satisfied : for example , if Customs have ignored a relevant matter or if they have taken an irrelevant matter into account . |