Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 2 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 3 | However , in a number of cases the variables on the right-hand side of equation ( 6.5 ) account for rather a small proportion of the variance of the left-hand side variable , suggesting that some important influences on have been omitted from the estimating equation . |
| 4 | Having to stop on every other move to bury one hand at a time in the confines of barely warm armpits made for rather a stilted ascent , but it was worth it . |
| 5 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 6 | Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo . |
| 7 | Indeed , in a publishing environment where there may be a need for perhaps a dozen word processors but just one page makeup system this approach has strong financial advantages . |
| 8 | Most printers would be only too pleased to oblige — for perhaps a modest donation to the tea tin . |
| 9 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 10 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 11 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 12 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 13 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 14 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 15 | FOR perhaps the 50th time since lunch , the hotline rings . |
| 16 | She therefore concluded that ‘ it may be necessary to make the State system a flat rate one and secure the necessary gradation by supplementary allowances from an occupational pool for all the higher grade occupations ’ ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 236 ) . |
| 17 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
| 18 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 19 | He saw no prospect of avoiding for long a head-on collision . |
| 20 | As for public relations , who could dislike for long the public relations man with his gin and tonic in hand , carnation in his button-hole , and soothing , helpful words ? |
| 21 | Then , as now , coal provided the fuel for much the greater part of the country 's electricity . |
| 22 | He also liked the occasional drink , for much the same reasons . |
| 23 | And ethnicity turns into separatist nationalism for much the same reasons as colonial liberation movements establish their states within the frontiers of the preceding colonial empires . |
| 24 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
| 25 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |
| 26 | More recently , and for much the same reasons , Stelux , from Hong Kong , bought the Bulova Watch Company in the USA . |
| 27 | For much the same reasons we are quite satisfied that there is nothing in the Act which affects in any way the processes by which decisions as to suspension and disbarment , and so on are to be taken and promulgated through the machinery created by the Inns in 1986 with the concurrence of the judges , subject always to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 28 | Britain therefore experienced a credit squeeze in the early 1990s during a period of recession in much the same way — and for much the same reasons — that she experienced a credit boom during the period of growth and ‘ overheating ’ in the mid-1980s . |
| 29 | Denmark joined the EEC for much the same reasons as the British did : she wished to ensure that she was not excluded from a large ‘ home ’ market , particularly for her agricultural products . |
| 30 | Argentina 's government failed to arrest inflation for much the same reason . |