Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a loud horn blast pieced the air , a thin strident note pregnant with urgency . |
| 2 | : I was playing football on the playing field at HMS Ganges when suddenly a long bugle call playing the Still sounded from the tannoy system . |
| 3 | This one 's pretty disciplined , pretty much a real pop record : up-tempo , a real happy thing . |
| 4 | BRIAN Johnston is not so much a ball-by-ball cricket commentator , more a national institution . |
| 5 | In 1960 , Hugh Greene , a member of the Board of Governors at the BBC , had abruptly dismissed the claim that ITV was as much a public service body as the BBC , cynically despatching its press tag as ‘ the people 's Television ’ . |
| 6 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 7 | However , the reception office is very much a functional working area and should be well planned with work centres focused around the major equipment used , and located so that communication and liaison with the other sections is easy , simple and efficient . |
| 8 | ( d ) The hybrid situation It is sometimes agreed between the parties to a marriage that the matrimonial home ( or the husband 's interest therein ) be transferred to the wife and a third party ( eg a new husbandsee Chapter 5 ) . |
| 9 | If the report has to be in a statutory format ( eg a long form report ) check the required format while drafting to avoid amending later . |
| 10 | Particular care is needed where reports are prepared and it is believed that a person other than the client will have access to the report and may seek to rely upon it ( eg a long form report prepared for a vendor prior to sale ) . |
| 11 | It is an important feature of every business simulation eg a corporate planning model or a production planning model . |
| 12 | If this is not the case then the purchaser may face arguments from the vendor by way of defence relating to completely different matters ( eg a bad debt provision is in fact excessive as a defence to a claim relating to non-payment of PAYE ) and detailed accounts may need to be drawn up every time there is a breach of warranty ( ie in order to see if there is some surplus which compensates ) . |
| 13 | He was supposedly an actor , you ca n't find any record of him as an actor , er he was apparently a dependable country bumpkin who became fairly important in managing the money , er Shakespeare was someone whom the theatre people could count on , a simple as that . |
| 14 | Cracking walnuts is , apparently a French cottage industry . |
| 15 | DataServe for VME , the base software product , provides what is basically a remote procedure call mechanism for VME , and opens up corporate data stored on ICL 's IDMSX mainframe data stores to different environments . |
| 16 | Basically a simple intercom system which directly replaces an existing door bell system , the inside and outside units can be installed from 3 to 50m apart , using two core-bell wire to connect them . |
| 17 | Erm and there are basically a short term pension is available . |
| 18 | The Child 's Game is basically a free play situation where the child chooses any series of activities for 10–15 minutes during which the parent will join in under the child 's direction . |
| 19 | It 's basically a massive brick structure carrying the water of the Bear brook through Aylesbury . |
| 20 | called Saints Alive which is basically a fun thing sort of celebrating the lives of the Saints . |
| 21 | Reports on June 12 quoted diplomats in Kinshasa as saying that Zaïre , long a covert trading partner of South Africa , was establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa and that an ambassador had been appointed . |
| 22 | How long a physical abuse referral takes to deal with , for example , will depend on factors such as the quality of the referral information , whether the case was currently open to another agency already and the circumstances found on investigation . |
| 23 | We had good weather whilst we were with Richard , and he kept us well entertained both with walks , and with visits to the local museums , of which there are a good many , mostly very interesting , especially a complete mining village with a working ‘ cage ’ driven by an enormous steam engine . |
| 24 | In the US , thanks to an agreement that major distributors would give eight films annually a full circuit release , pictures such as The 49th Parallel , Target for Tonight and In Which We Serve had done remarkable business . |
| 25 | Bradshaw and Morgan demonstrate that children whose parents are in receipt of supplementary benefit suffer from deficiencies of iron and calcium and are below a basic clothing standard . |
| 26 | But the madrigal was not merely a new art form — it had nothing in common with the trecento madrigal except the name — but a landmark in a revolution of which we have already seen the beginnings in the frottole and laudi spirituali and occasional passages in the Italian-influenced northerners from Dufay onward . |
| 27 | Vehicle emission standards for carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons were suspended until 1980–1 and the original oxides of nitrogen standard became merely a long-term research objective . |
| 28 | Why , it might reasonably be asked , does someone who on paper was merely a competent county allrounder justify a centenary tribute ? |
| 29 | What was built in eighteen forty seven , and opened in eighteen forty seven , was merely a small branch line , of two and a half , three miles , from this town , to , where it say er er made a er a connection and and a small junction there . |
| 30 | Traditionalists , however , do not regard society as merely a gigantic market place and favour an authoritarian stand on many social issues , for example , on drugs , abortion , Sunday trading , and censorship . |