Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others were not inclined to be as sensitive as Mara : ‘ I say ‘ Good for Di ’ , ’ opined the loudest at a table of women . |
| 2 | → We ran a PA supplement in June 1990 , giving details of various systems in the lower price bracket , and including an interview with Mike Franklin from Porky Pig PA Co talking about getting the most from a PA . |
| 3 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 4 | Burridge cost the Palace £40,000 when he joined the club from Aston Villa , but he became part of the Palace 's best-ever defence , for the 24 League goals conceded in 1978–79 were the lowest for a single season in the club 's history while John 's 21 ‘ clean-sheets ’ that season was also the best-ever by a goalkeeper here . |
| 5 | One is that the further from a Type 1 structure a school is , the greater the need for communication and coordination in decision-making . |
| 6 | Of course , if you take the back off a watch you wo n't find 15 individual flip-flops inside . |
| 7 | Few people relish the though of a visit to the dentist , but neglecting your horse 's teeth could affect your riding and the horse 's condition and comfort . |
| 8 | On the London stage , the great roles will be plucked like plums , in the Welsh valleys his fame will swell like the fortissimo of a chapel organ and his acts of generosity , recklessness , coarseness and excellent manners tossed on to the fiery legend like dry logs . |
| 9 | A ghost-fleet sails by , but not in the least like a fleet of phantoms ; for on such an evening I feel its presence homely and vivacious all around me ; thronging those waters still with colour . |
| 10 | Like Mr Evans 's eyes , Carrie thought , but apart from her eyes she did n't look in the least like a shopkeeper 's sister . |
| 11 | She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation . |
| 12 | Miles groaned inwardly , knowing instinctively that the how and the why of a thing were almost irrelevant when placed against the fact . |
| 13 | In an emergency , it will take a short cut and plunge across a patch of land that it never normally enters in order to reach the safely of a bolt-hole . |
| 14 | Accused by Alex Brown of using the OFT as a smokescreen to hide behind , Mr Lang said : ‘ Absolutely not . |
| 15 | This concern could , however , be easily met if it were made clear that fines would only be recommended by the OFT as a matter of course where a company had evidently breached one of the prohibitions . |
| 16 | In a little under a year this insecure High School drop-out had undergone a process of deification by press and public . |
| 17 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 18 | Although less ‘ angry ’ than in its earlier incarnation , this time it was a Sounds ' single Of The Week — not a bad achievement for a band whose rise had only begun in earnest a little under a year ago . |
| 19 | He managed to complete the last lap with a flourish in a little under a minute , opening up a 10-metre lead down the back straight . |
| 20 | She drank slowly , found she was indeed hungry and munched a little on a biscuit . |
| 21 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 22 | The corner of his lips twitched a little with a solemnity which suggested only a matter of some gravity would persuade him to venture this close to the personal . |
| 23 | It deserves to succeed , and hints more than a little at a film soundtrack . |
| 24 | After the first success in the matter of Amy Larner , who was now comfortably situated with Dr Horrocks 's friends in Saxburgh , Edwin Frere found himself a little at a loss , for his parish proved less permeable than he had hoped to the motions of the spirit . |
| 25 | Add the cream a little at a time and finally add the freshly chopped herbs . |
| 26 | I have to take it a little at a time , it is so powerful . |
| 27 | Beat the egg whites until stiff and then , a little at a time , beat in the sugar . |
| 28 | You may find the patient has little interest in food , so he may need encouraging to eat a little at a time . |
| 29 | After you have mixed about two teaspoonsful of the water into the oil and wax , remove from the heat and continue adding the water a little at a time until you have incorporated it all . |
| 30 | Beat in eggs , a little at a time , beating well after each addition . |