Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stage Manager would give him the line , he 'd be all right for a couple more sentences , then , ‘ Sorry , it 's gone again . ’ |
| 2 | What I do is chop the luncheon meat into cubes just big enough for a size 8 or 10 hook and mix them with damp groundbait . |
| 3 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 4 | He also found that sitting a person inside for a period each day helped the processes of healing . |
| 5 | There were very few groups that stayed together as a unit all the time ; you just got together and played what were current country hits , current pop hits , with whatever instrumentation you had . |
| 6 | The old cricket pavilion was demolished and then cobbled back together as a grandstand able to accommodate up to fifty spectators . |
| 7 | Sexual intercourse which is forced by a threat to strangle the victim or to beat her senseless ranks only as a Category 3 offence if no weapon is used . |
| 8 | It 's only about a pound eighty a week or something for him . |
| 9 | when Sheila was here last week and Linda , and Linda 's little boy Christopher and he 's only about a month younger than Annabel and erm she feels the bits would be too tiny for him . |
| 10 | A sculpture representing a king and queen was broken by the builder 's labourer who found it , revealing that the metal of the faces was only about a millimetre thick . |
| 11 | Fortunately the old recipes are very much alive — much of the food photographed in the book was made by Sheila 's relatives in their own homes especially for a photo-session last August in Philadelphia . |
| 12 | Eddie won by a single stroke only after a back nine countback . |
| 13 | We got up to mischief obviously like a lot more , youngsters do even today , but er there was none of this sort of vandalism , we did n't use to destroy anything . |
| 14 | I am getting thrown a little more , but I feel stronger and better with a lot more aggression . ’ |
| 15 | The number of signatories to the letter — and up to 50 other House Democrats might agree with its terms , as well as perhaps 25–30 of the 56 Democratic senators — means that a ‘ UN ’ resolution could pass Congress only with a majority small enough to be politically unacceptable , and might well fail . |
| 16 | Um also by that time er perhaps with a bit more experience of the world you 've got a bit more to compare it with and you 've got a strong sense that this is unjust , unreasonable and that other people do n't have to suffer from it . |
| 17 | so up a hill all day , you can use a lot more |
| 18 | In 1540 , the Crown extracted from Parliament four fifteenths and tenths , together with a subsidy payable over two years . |
| 19 | A partner will pay a flat rate Class 2 contribution of £267.80 together with a Class 4 contribution of 6.3% of profits between the lower earnings limit of £5,900 and the upper earnings limit of £20,820 which gives a Class 4 contribution of £905.94 . |
| 20 | Until early September you 'll meet strong winds , and you 'll need to sail to windward in a force 4 or even force 6 in a short choppy sea . |
| 21 | In drama schools , improvisation is about finding a way of expanding the imagination and liberating the senses , which can get too confined if students work entirely from a text all the time . |
| 22 | These are only used when you can sail the board competently in a Force 4 . |
| 23 | The material retained in each successive sieve is emptied in turn on to a sheet of glazed paper , the sieve tapped gently in a direction diagonal to the meshes and swept with appropriate sieve brushes ( camel hair for fine apertures , brass for coarse screens ) to dislodge particles which have become firmly held . |
| 24 | If he can produce individuals who will come and have a discussion with him or with me , I bet that we could find somewhere where they could work , especially in a city such as London where jobs in the tourist industry , in the retail trade and in the back-up to that are still available . |
| 25 | While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period . |
| 26 | In East Africa a gracile and a robust form of man–ape seem to have coincided and overlapped ecologically for a time — perhaps in a manner comparable to chimpanzees and gorillas in certain areas of their ranges today . |
| 27 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |
| 28 | So in a sense that 's , that 's your task . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the system also came under attack as being unfair — hence undermining consent by calling into doubt the legitimacy of both the mode of election and the government produced by it — and for facilitating the adversary relationship between the parties , a relationship that significantly influenced public policy , but did so in a manner harmful to the interests of the country . |
| 30 | Speaking only from a base financial standpoint , there is probably no book of which people hold higher hopes than the Bible , and none where they are more doomed to disappointment . |