Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Carrick men could only manage two and a half points from their top of the table clash with Lisnagarvey ( 85-79 ) , but they still could be in with a chance when they meet Gilnahirk next week . |
| 2 | The Carrick men could only manage two and a half points from their top of the table clash with Lisnagarvey ( 85–79 ) , but they still could be in with a chance when they meet Gilnahirk next week . |
| 3 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 4 | I see no reason whatsoever for a council that will still have two and a half million pounds in balances after the labour group proposals , why on earth we need to build another hundred thousand pounds into the budget , paid for by er council tax payers to provide for unforeseen expenditure . |
| 5 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 6 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |
| 7 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 8 | You will also get ten and a half public and privilege holidays each ear . |
| 9 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 10 | They do say that essential oils will often work quicker than a tablet . |
| 11 | Not simply a resurrection in people 's minds — I might well grant that but a resurrection as an objective fact of history , so that it could be said that the causal nexus of history and that of nature were broken ( for there are not resurrections ) . |
| 12 | The couple may simply require light because a fuse has blown or a power cut has occurred . |
| 13 | Outlaws from the forests to the south , grown over-bold ; let them be taken for that , and they might yet make another and a better attempt . |
| 14 | At this stage also it will almost certainly become apparent that a better job could have been done in the research if only more attention had been given to certain factors which had not been thought beforehand to have been of much importance . |
| 15 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 16 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , this case turned on a question of construction without any general statement of principle being expounded , and it would therefore seem sensible that a tenant should try to ensure that subrogation rights are avoided wherever possible . |
| 18 | They would never get more than a phrase completed before an argument would break out as to the merit of either the words or the music . |