Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 2 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 3 | Well backed after catching the eye previously , he strolled home by 12 lengths , having his race won a long way out . |
| 4 | Anyway Leicester have won a free kick midway inside the Forest half . |
| 5 | EIGHT lucky readers have earned a special night out at Durham Wasps ' final home play-off match . |
| 6 | Gorman worked on the Railway as a platelayer and as such , occupied a small cottage maybe 200yd away from the main line . |
| 7 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |
| 8 | He had let a light engine out of the down loop ready to go to Bolton and had refused the bell code for a fast down freight from Bradley Fold station box . |
| 9 | I am afraid I believe a caution would have come a great deal more quickly . |
| 10 | ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’ |
| 11 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 12 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 13 | Jim said : ‘ We had to tackle the traditionally bad image of train catering and we really have come a tremendous way as far as quality is concerned . |
| 14 | I think our discussion here has come a full circle really . |
| 15 | He seemed to imply in this that even if the covenantor had not previously enjoyed a certain freedom then the restraint of trade doctrine might still apply if he is , as a result of the restraint , under a positive duty to do something which restricts his current freedom . |
| 16 | The pound , which has enjoyed a decent run so far this week , was again under pressure and sank back against the mark and the dollar . |
| 17 | As for the race itself , Kinane added that he knew he would win some way from home and had enjoyed a trouble-free run throughout . |
| 18 | For years the Post has enjoyed a high reputation locally for its excellent food and service , and the addition of a luxurious wing , means that a matching standard of accommodation is now offered . |
| 19 | The two human parcels screwed up on the floor could have fared a whole lot worse . |
| 20 | And yet for a moment in the kitchen she thought she 'd caught a fleeting expression almost of smugness on his face , as though something had pleased him . |
| 21 | Caught a local flight across to Vigie . |
| 22 | The subjects are things which have caught a national mood exactly , like ITMA , The Goons and , last Friday , Look Back in Anger . |
| 23 | He is also said to have caught a huge carp there , and to commemorate this event he took a gold ring from his finger and wore it ever after as an earring . |
| 24 | This was resolved a short time later when an unstable product of a short-term incubation of arachidonic acid with cyclo-oxygenase prepared from the vesicular gland of sheep was found to induce platelet aggregation ( Willis & Kuhn , 1973 ) . |
| 25 | Mrs Monro had just admonished Syl , ‘ Do n't eat with your fingers ’ , because he had picked a roast potato straight from the vegetable dish and put it in his mouth . |
| 26 | It was considered a great honour not only for Eva , but Salvation Army work as a whole . |
| 27 | The response of the law-enforcement agencies is taken by some writers as further evidence that this violence against women is considered legitimate and that the state should , therefore , be considered a patriarchal institution rather than a neutral body . |
| 28 | In 13 ( 32.5% ) patients the insertion of the endoprosthesis was considered a temporary measure either before planned surgery ( 10 cases ) or a repeat attempt to clear the duct endoscopically ( three cases ) . |
| 29 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 30 | Given that what may be considered a minor development elsewhere could have a serious impact on the landscape quality of a designated area , we believe the need to prove ‘ exceptional circumstances ’ must apply to all new proposals . |