Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Scientists have analysed barking sounds and have found that they fall somewhere between a puppy 's distress call and an aggressive growl — producing a mixed message akin to ‘ come here , go away ’ .
2 Not as she thought right for a person 's end ,
3 ‘ There 's Briar Cottage , ’ Joan said uneasily after a moment 's consideration .
4 At the end of the flat portion there was a gap big enough for a man 's body to drop through , and then a single rung like a short parallel bar in a gym .
5 ‘ Aye , there are pearls in these waters — enough for a king 's ransom .
6 With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life .
7 As well as the names of cities , coin inscriptions can tell us much about a city 's institutions and individuals .
8 A century ago it was considered to be as good as the Normande , and better as a butcher 's beast , but a combination of war and frontier changes led to its deterioration ; it was crossed with Danish Red as well as Belgian Red to form the Flemish Red , which is usually whole red , though some have mottled or blazed faces .
9 I picture you on a trip up to London , perhaps for a day 's work experience at the offices of some conglomerate .
10 But most foreigners could not care less about a team 's performance .
11 For the time being I 'll continue to rely on knowing enough about a bird 's habits to be able to track it down .
12 Halfway through a morning 's work , I climb down for a coffee .
13 Two thousand people representing 86 teams from all over the world gathered together for a week 's fun , friendship and fraternity .
14 But he was n't saying that he was getting eighteen thousand a year from Ffestiniog slate alone as a director 's bonus and he 's a director of the other quarries as well .
15 Perhaps after a night 's sleep he 'll be okay ?
16 So after a year 's preliminary investigation they moved the charter and their centre of government to Boston ( Massachusetts , though named after the East Anglian port ) in 1630 and made it clear that they intended to cut off all official connection with the English government .
17 And so after a while erm we found that , apart from one or two minor anomalies , er that our members were able to achieve round about forty seven , forty eight , forty nine percent .
18 Approaches such as these that assess a worker 's competence against nationally-established standards and that issue a qualification regardless of a person 's formal academic background need to be developed for larger groups of paraprofessionals .
19 I 'm , I think , I think I 've got a different criticism which is that much of it is still too much like a newspaper erm that it 's , as I say , that the modular structure of the news pages is too relentlessly like , almost like , the Times of eighteen twelve , I mean too relentlessly little blocks that sort of sit there and although there 's Helvetica bold in the headlines , it 's , somehow the relationship and flow of stories in many ways does n't seem to have changed , it 's the presentation
20 The new Braun Oral-B Plaque Remover features important breakthroughs : Its round , oscillating brush head functions much like a dentist 's instrument .
21 And let me now posit this : ‘ dignity ’ has to do crucially with a butler 's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits .
22 The company is offering Works , Sentry , Courier and AEF together with a year 's support and two days of on-site training and consulting as the Tivoli Start-Up Package priced at $30,000 .
23 Surely all that is needed are those volumes of ‘ Yes , Minister ’ and the works of Dobbs and Archer , together with a beginner 's guide to political advertising .
24 The Packs contain 16 pages of cardboard to be cut up into picture , word , letter , and number cards , together with a Teacher 's Guide offering instructions for using the cards in conjunction with the Activity Books .
25 ‘ Oh , Harry ! ’ she said suddenly in a child 's wail of reproach , and fell on her knees by him , flinging her arms round him .
26 The three-course dinner is served daily from a table d'hôte menu and is cooked by Judy Fawcett .
27 A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world .
28 She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later .
29 For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key .
30 And here it is : I have proof that Neil Kinnock once spent a night of passion alone in a miner 's cottage with a well-known writer .
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