Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we try to show that retirement can be a rewarding and fulfilling I find it so anyway so I can sell things in that er sense having an experience rather a young person talking to older people how er fulfilling it wis is in retirement . |
| 2 | They sing the chorus together a second time . |
| 3 | Normal was what people said some of their actions and relations were , from time to time , and in Marcus 's experience what they said they were bore only a vague relation to their actual forms and configurations . |
| 4 | Since there is at present only a small pool of people with experience in this area the use of practitioners as trainers provides an element of ‘ training the trainers ’ in the course team . |
| 5 | The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake . |
| 6 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 7 | I would like to see a streamlined funding system operated by a simple agency with lead responsibility Perhaps a defined percentage should be made available to voluntary organisations I would like to see proper involvement of voluntary organisations at all levels of the Joint Planning Process . |
| 8 | The English columns kept arriving , but of course only a small proportion of the great host could move up to occupy that terrace position . |
| 9 | He enclosed a cover note , explaining in his clerkly style that it was of course only a rough estimate , and that I was n't beholden to reimburse him penny for penny . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for this theory , the genes carrying tail-reduction in the two cases are quite different , and the Manx and the Bobtail bear only a superficial resemblance to one another . |
| 11 | ‘ He died of a stroke only a short time after Mamma left him . ’ |
| 12 | The breed is prone to occasional stomach troubles and bouts of enteritis so a good-quality diet is essential . |
| 13 | As a result only a thin stratum of wealthy native merchants developed . |
| 14 | Correct parrying requires of the defender only a simple movement of the wrist . |
| 15 | However , this off-the-shelf technology proved unsatisfactory in practice so a local team , headed by Ken Calvert , set about designing building and evaluating their own variant . |
| 16 | He took Mould to the room without any floorboards , and helped him piece together a bizarre contraption containing metal beams , weights and cogs . |
| 17 | In the present research only a lower level study has been attempted in which the relationship between the aloof measure and the true leaf area obtained after cutting has been plotted . |
| 18 | In other words the maximum movement , which now occurs in both directions , is around five per cent and in practice generally a good deal less . |
| 19 | If one place in Britain has become inextricably associated with the unpleasant side of the nuclear industry , it is the giant complex of reactors and waste handling facilities on the Cumbrian coast just a short drive away from the Lake District . |
| 20 | He has taken his obsession just a little bit too far . ’ |
| 21 | You are better eating just a small snack than hurrying a main meal . |
| 22 | Turning to the particular case of a quarter-wavelength line , , so that and equation ( 9.91 ) reduces to the simple result Thus a quarter-wavelength line can easily be used to transform one impedance into another . |
| 23 | Fergus drove quickly on , trees flicking past like green ghosts to the right , the waters of the loch just a dark absence on the left . |
| 24 | LISBON — The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal cut short a five-day goodwill visit here yesterday as controversy flared between US and Portuguese officials over the arrest of 121 American and British sailors during an alleged street-fighting rampage . |
| 25 | Good locks are n't cheap … unless you compare them with the sort of loss and distress even a minor burglary can cause . |
| 26 | We realise that if Britain is to improve and succeed in the future then a continued investment and interest in science is of paramount importance . |
| 27 | I do n't know what to think parked cars the of a big if I can see a parked car there a long way in front of me I go I am park that car so it |
| 28 | He was removed from that medrese and then became muderris there a second time " with the condition that it should be included among the and that his should become in his [ proper ] time in accordance with the custom in similar medreses ' . |
| 29 | Eventually we came to the Old Mill area where there were no railings at the waterside , making the mill pond quite a frightening place for small children . |
| 30 | He was in military command , but supreme political authority was given to Admiral Thierry d'Argenlieu , a strange , remote figure previously a Carmelite monk . |