Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , organically grown wheat fetches farmers about £70 or so a ton more than conventionally grown grain , the premium more than compensating for substantially lower yields . |
| 2 | Benedicta — was courteous to everyone , whether it be Hob 's wife , Ranulf the rat-catcher , or now a court gallant . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , an instinct for splendour and the ability to give their kingdom importance were actually still far more fundamental aspects of Renaissance monarchy than the colder , more cautious approach of a Henry VII or Elizabeth , or even a Philip II ; and in these terms , the achievement of the Scottish monarchy can indeed be described as remarkable . |
| 4 | Swop to a size 16 , or even a size 14 if necessary , and you will soon be hitting the bites and slipping some nice dace into your nets too . |
| 5 | This would leave intact the procedure of notification au parquet to which the authors of the Convention took such exception , or even a device such as that once recognised in the English ecclesiastical courts of affixing citation of a foreign resident ‘ upon one of the columns of the Royal Exchange , or in front of some other well-known building , in a place of public resort , which merchants are in the daily habit of frequenting or passing by ’ . |
| 6 | You 'd have to compare it to the Rickenbacker 650 reviewed last month — roughly the same price , but a much slicker guitar — or maybe a Hamer Special , if your tendencies are more Gibson-orientated . |
| 7 | More like a Shogun or one of the other smaller Jap 4Ws , or maybe a South Korean . |
| 8 | The huge mountain at the far , Pakistani end of the Himalaya saw the tragic massacre of Willy Merkl 's German team in 1936 and eventually a solo first ascent by the legendary Hermann Buhl in 1953 . |
| 9 | will give me minus and so a minus one times a ten gives us a minus ten . |
| 10 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 11 | The inlays are mother-of-pearl and perhaps a trifle unusual in how they diminish in size up the neck … |
| 12 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 13 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 14 | ‘ And just a bit pretentious . ’ |
| 15 | And just a wee Some of the achievements we 've had in the last ten years . |
| 16 | And once a week one of the waiters takes guests on a free guided walk . |
| 17 | One of their friends was a medium , and once a month those of their group who could get there would assemble at her flat in south London for a seance . |
| 18 | With the same 14 mm bait I will now be using a size 4 and possibly a size 2 . |
| 19 | The weather is beautiful : clear , sunny and still a bit cold . |
| 20 | The old order changeth , and how — back at the end of the 1970s , Ted Dexter and Honeywell Information Systems Ltd got together to propose to the British Broadcasting Corporation that television coverage of cricket could be enhanced with a little judicious computer intervention and the age of computer-aided sports broadcasting was born : for a decade and more a Level 6 minicomputer or successor followed the cameras and trundled around the cricket grounds of England and Wales in the back of a truck as Honeywell and successor company Bull HN Information Systems Ltd maintained the tradition — but with the first one-day match of the current series against Australia at Old Trafford yesterday , what was the legend at the bottom of the caption but ‘ Intel processing ’ . |
| 21 | For several reasons 140k is believed to be the functional counterpart of Vmw175 ; HSV-1 mutants with lesions in Vmw175 can be complemented by either transfected plasmids or transformed cell lines which express VZV 140k ( 11,12 ) and moreover a recombinant HSV-1 virus ( HSV-140 ) with both copies of the Vmw175 coding sequences replaced by the homologous gene 71 ORF is viable in tissue culture ( 13 ) . |
| 22 | The result is a beautiful leisure park , one and a half miles long and nearly a mile wide , in the middle of the Danube . |
| 23 | His next project is to take seven mentally disabled people to Everest Base Camp and up a 22,000ft high peak . |
| 24 | ‘ It so happens with the weather changing I bought a new windcheater and also a beret this morning . |
| 25 | We saw in the cemetery a pile of about 60–70 corpses , two days accumulation ( not reckoning the private burials ) , waiting to be tumbled into a pit , and also a pit full of other corpses . |
| 26 | While being of a fairly broadminded and humorous nature myself , I felt the piece to be a little controversial in its standpoint , and also a shade inaccurate . |
| 27 | it 's about as long as this room , and probably a bit wider . |
| 28 | He was a good deal younger than Mary Adelaide Flock , and probably a lot younger still than the late Ted Mosse , but a limp suggested rheumatism and the reason he was known to the chemist . |
| 29 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |
| 30 | Hopeful youngsters clashed with old timers playing out their last few seasons in the reserve leagues , which were as competitive as the first-team games and often a lot tougher . |