Example sentences of "[noun sg] with [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After running the filter for a few days , stock with just a couple of fish to begin with , and gradually build up to full stocking . |
| 2 | Experiment with just a teaspoonful at first , increasing up to 1 ½ oz ( 15g ) gradually , as necessary . |
| 3 | You want a piece with quite a bit of fat marbling the inside . |
| 4 | Launching himself form the top of a massive 300 foot crane , Nigel plunged towards the ground at high speed with only a bungee ( a strong rope made of rubber encased by a purpose-designed braiding ) stopping him from eating his words . |
| 5 | Newcastle produced a lacklustre display at Morley , going down 26–20 after being 19–3 down at half-time with only a David Johnson penalty to show for their efforts . |
| 6 | I 'm in this concrete cell with just a light bulb , nothing else at all , and after the desert it 's cold as a freezer . |
| 7 | Virgin Records was no longer the small , struggling outsider with only a handful of artists , but an established and thriving company , vying competitively with the likes of Island and Chrysalis — and , what 's more , they now had a newly-established office in America . |
| 8 | This definition is clarified when Sadat turns off the road through an entrance discreet enough to admit the car with only a centimetre on either side . |
| 9 | Half an hour later , Harry left Breakspear College with scarcely a glance at what was now only a faint stain on the opposite wall . |
| 10 | Their trick is to have a very loosely connected skin , so free from the underlying tissue that a sudden gripping pressure can break it away , leaving the killer with only a mouthful of the instantly shed skin . |
| 11 | When Paula was shown into her office Arlene looked up from a sheaf of photographs which were spread on her desk with just a hint of impatience . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's difficult making an aeroplane with only a screwdriver and a bent hammer , ’ he explained to the Bookman . |
| 13 | Amazingly , Adam walked away from the crash with just a graze on his left shoulder . |
| 14 | A wash basin neatly boxed in , a big fitted wardrobe with even a rail for her shoes in it . |
| 15 | New fashion ideas Transform a simple daytime look into stunning evening elegance with just a touch of gold |
| 16 | ‘ But she 's a simple country girl with hardly a thought in her head . |
| 17 | There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him . |
| 18 | We adopt a warm , welcoming expression , which somehow manages to combine immense charm with just a hint of dangerous animal magnetism . |
| 19 | The father in one family , himself a compositor with both a son and daughter following his trade , was described as " a first-class workman , clever , thoughtful and well-read … he is in the Trade Union " and also attended Labour Party meetings ( indicating incidentally that it was not necessarily a sign of disaffection from the union for a comp to send his daughter to the trade ) . |
| 20 | There had been a running buffet in the kitchen and they helped themselves when they were hungry , like gauchos on an Argentine estancia , but meals glued life together for Alan 's family and he could be heard intoning , intoning , instructing , instructing in his foggy monotone with never a word in reply , until the children were able to ‘ get down ’ . |
| 21 | It is simply a high step-up with scarcely a hold for the left hand . |
| 22 | And indeed the new landscape produced some fine dramatic compositions such as the railway viaduct over the smoking town of Stockport ; or the sight of Bradford at night from the moorland hills to the north ; or of the smoky silhouette of Nottingham on a winter evening as seen from the south-bound train on the Eastern Region line ; or the city of Sheffield in full blast on a murky morning ; even ( one thinks sometimes ) the sight of long gas-lit streets of red brick working-class houses in a Victorian town with not a tree or a bush in sight : only the lamps shining on pavements blanched by the autumn evening wind . |
| 23 | Yorkshire Television is apparently going into the new franchise with not a woman in its top rank . |
| 24 | Or there is the Amaretto Liquer Gateau ( £3.25 ) , a light cake with just a hint of naughtiness about it . |
| 25 | Anthony Lewis talks to drivers who have taken the plunge and switched from petrol-engined cars to diesel with not a regret between them The doctor |
| 26 | If , if Mr accepts that , can I er , call a meeting with perhaps a member from each of the groups and an M F U and C , C L A ? |
| 27 | Furthermore , although the first poll-tax was sufficiently successful as a fiscal measure for it to be repeated in 1379 and 1381 , the hostility shown to it in the Great Revolt of the latter year led to its abandonment as a form of taxation ; not until the sixteenth century do further governmental records become available which can be employed to estimate the size of the national population with even a modicum of confidence . |
| 28 | Volume-cycled nasal positive pressure ventilation was started as soon as possible in the NIPPV group with either a Lifecare PLV 100 ( Lifecare , Lafayette , Colorado , USA ) in the assist-control mode , or a Brompton-PAC ( PneuPAC Ltd , Luton , Beds , UK ) . |
| 29 | SCO leaves the Initiative with only an OSF/1-based ODT development system for the R3000 ; the R4000 port is unfinished . |
| 30 | For a Masai a broad , grassy plain with barely a tree in sight is preferable . |