Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher sat easily on the corner of his office table his Company Sergeant Major ramrod stiff a pace behind on his right . |
| 2 | What seems to be occurring is not so much a shift away from the conspiracy tradition , but a shift — for reasons of tactics and internal politics — in the way the conspiracy theory is to be presented . |
| 3 | You might There are certain new settlement proposals that have been put forward in other parts of the country which has been basically a bolt on to er an existing group of |
| 4 | It 's thirteen fifty a ticket , it 's erm , I do n't think you can moan at a night out for that , especially a night out like that |
| 5 | Some people find a change of soap powder can help , especially a move away from a biological powder . |
| 6 | Edwards and Rackages base their approach on the highly questionable premise that spectator violence is merely a playing out of tensions external to sport itself . |
| 7 | The action took her by surprise , and at first she told herself to remain calm and to take the kiss in the spirit it was being given , which was merely a making up between friends after cross words . |
| 8 | Somewhere , perhaps a mile away down the Beirut front line , shells were bursting in a long , low rumble that ever so slightly changed the air pressure in rue Trablos . |
| 9 | perhaps a cow about to shit |
| 10 | A massive step forward from Descartes then , but also perhaps a step back to Augustine . |
| 11 | That 's quite specific to the tax bracket but the source of work in Leeds has been very much from er corporate finance and from the insolvency practice , whilst that is er obviously a way forward for us in the initial stages . |
| 12 | Obviously a subject close to many hearts , particularly of those gay lobbyists who turned up with placards and leaflets for distribution to the 400 AI delegates at the opening plenary . |
| 13 | There is obviously a trade off to be obtained by varying the number of words that are stored in the lexicon . |
| 14 | Boundary setting is obviously a matter partly of judgement , in relation to a purpose , and partly an arbitrary procedure . |
| 15 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 16 | If I again mention Mason 's Lighthouses — in its way a score of not dissimilar scope and fascination , written only a year later by a composer a generation younger — it 's because a comparison ( which Collins Classics has now made possible ) of these two pieces helps to highlight the individual nature of Birtwistle 's achievement . |
| 17 | As we are only a year away from the start of the single market , will my right hon. Friend reassure the public that unnecessary bureaucratic delays will not occur at our ports and airports , to the annoyance of the public ? |
| 18 | Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast |
| 19 | To most , if not all , British trade union leaders it seemed to be suicide to follow Larkin 's " fiery cross " into a confrontation with the state in circumstances in which it was clear that their members would not follow them ; why should they make such a sacrifice for Larkin when they had been unwilling to do so only a year earlier for the London dockers ? |
| 20 | But they were only a fraction ahead of the rest of the side , who always gave the ball carrier excellent support , |
| 21 | Both can be seen as genuine attempts at making something out of nothing , attempts at getting something even if it 's only a laugh out of a life which , in many cases , by 16 has already run into a collection of brick walls labelled ‘ unemployment ’ , ‘ shit jobs ’ and ‘ routine brushes with the Law ’ . |
| 22 | It 's only a choice out of one , two or three Shell |
| 23 | Joan Robbins was only a yard away through the fence . |
| 24 | The news of the retreat came into Shrewsbury only a day ahead of the returning vanguard , and filled the town with rumours and counter-rumours . |
| 25 | The 15-year-old South Shields schoolgirl described it as ‘ pathetic ’ , even though she was only a second away from the record . |
| 26 | He can make you believe you are the only woman on earth for him , and only a Frenchman out of all the men in the world could look at me and tell me to my face that I am beautiful . |
| 27 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 28 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 29 | I did have a man only a month ago with an axe injury , a seven-inch depressed fracture of the parietal bone and extensive extradural haemorrhage . |
| 30 | She thought she 'd found the perfect place to live , yet already it was slipping away and this cosy compartment was only a stage on to something else . |