Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where once upon a time there had only been fishing boats , now bobbed the magnificent yachts of international millionaires . |
| 2 | His immediate superior and his superintendent had departed ten minutes before for a conference at Lewes and he was more than somewhat at a loss . |
| 3 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
| 4 | There were now , albeit only for a minority , alternatives to invisibility . |
| 5 | Having viewed the replacement external fresco and the church — although only through a haze of overhead tram wires — from the little square where Via Mazzini crosses Via Falcone and several other minor roads , go inside and see the real one which stands above the main altar , beneath Bramante 's masterly pseudo-apse . |
| 6 | Radiation may induce diarrhoea by a non-inflammatory mechanism such as bile acid malabsorption ( although only as a feature of late radiation damage to the small bowel ) . |
| 7 | The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 . |
| 8 | Some normalization of the security situation in Knin began on Aug. 21 , although only after a demonstration by several thousand residents had secured an undertaking from the local police chief that no disciplinary action would be taken against policemen who had sided with the insurgents . |
| 9 | Third , the centre has collapsed as a political force — although not as a constituency — and this obliges both major parties to compete more assiduously for middle-of-the-road votes . |
| 10 | The latest CBI surveys suggest that more stockbuilding has indeed occurred , although not on a scale sufficient to explain the trade figures . |
| 11 | Although not in a sense surprising , the impact of the bare facts is nonetheless considerable : for it emerged that these women spent an average of over three hours on weekdays on various caring activities compared to the 13 minutes offered by men ! |
| 12 | This does not affect the cogency of his criticism and prognostication — the cultural barbarism which he feared has perhaps descended , although not in a form which he could have envisaged . |
| 13 | The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence . |
| 14 | Though circumstances are so changed it is relevant to remember that in their heyday syllabubs were regarded as refreshments to be offered at card parties , ball suppers and at public entertainments , rather than just as a pudding for lunches and dinners , although they did quite often figure as part of the dessert in the days when a choice of sweetmeats , fruits , jellies , confectionery and creams was set out in a formal symmetrical array in the centre of the table . |
| 15 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 16 | There had been various cases of ‘ blacked ’ journalists although usually as a result of pro-IRA stories . |
| 17 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 18 | He drank with Brendan Bracken , the red-haired Irishman who many thought was Churchill 's bastard , and slept more than once on a settee in the great man 's flat in Morpeth Mansions when they had all drunk too much whisky — although never while Churchill was in town . |
| 19 | The size of the oligonucleotide will determine whether it occurs more than once in a sample DNA and therefore might prime DNA polymerase activity at multiple sites . |
| 20 | Any café 'll do , but you ca n't use any of them more than once in a while or they start chucking you out . |
| 21 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
| 22 | A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . |
| 23 | General Manager Rogerson added : ‘ We are running more trains than ever with a maximum of 26 per day in the height of our season . |
| 24 | The pomp of Parks , Thompson and Dexter must seem further away than ever for a club that has now failed to progress beyond the group stages in 12 of the 21 Benson & Hedges Cup . |
| 25 | The use of continuing care beds for elderly people is being more closely scrutinised than ever as a result of the changing NHS culture . |
| 26 | Now this 21-year-old motor mechanic 's daughter looks stronger and better than ever off a four-handicap , and again showed what stern stuff she is made of with a thrilling tie-hole victory over Leinster international , Carol Wickham , at Royal Belfast . |
| 27 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 28 | They turned and waited silently as Jackie Tiptoe 's distinctive shape , looking in the queer light more than ever like a gargoyle escaped from a cathedral , made its way across the grass with a swift , hiccupping run . |
| 29 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 30 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |