Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a long-distance call still causes a certain turbulence here . |
| 2 | Poor Constance goes to a girls ’ school , comes home to her mother and visits a middle-aged woman about twice a week . |
| 3 | I think it lies a little bit deeper . ’ |
| 4 | She stands a little distance away . |
| 5 | Yet another of Woodchester 's mills , Rooksmoor , stands a short way downstream . |
| 6 | The cast list printed in the wordbook , however , specifies a Grand Dance not of 24 persons but of ‘ 24 Chineses ’ ; while in the manuscript score , copied separately at the reverse end of the book , is the big movement — the longest instrumental number in the entire show — headed ‘ Chaconne : Dance for a Chinese man and woman ’ . |
| 7 | Despite the flaws in his character highlighted during the bitter presidential campaign , he signifies a fresh start not just for Americans , but for many people the world over . |
| 8 | It contains a rolling review precisely so that it should remain a valid basis for whatever tomorrow may bring . |
| 9 | If the mother develops a recurrent attack just before giving birth , her antibodies will protect the child from this severe infection . |
| 10 | IntelliDraw , on the other hand , tries to detect near alignments between the object you are drawing and all the other objects on the screen and places a blue guideline automatically . |
| 11 | Clarke writes a good deal more intelligently — and entertainingly — than many who prattle on about the future . |
| 12 | For , if one accepts a truth-conditional semantics then one is forced to state truth conditions on sentences-in-contexts , or if one prefers ( as Katz would ) that semantics is concerned with aspects of meaning assigned by convention to linguistic forms , then one includes context-dependent aspects of meaning within semantics . |
| 13 | finished starts a long way back , do n't it ? |
| 14 | To Europe 's governments , whatever they think about EMU , a return to the ERM of the 1980s looks a good way forward . |
| 15 | Against the rest of the sector and the market , that looks a good deal less attractive than it has in the past . |
| 16 | The Harcros Timber & Building Supplies Stayers Handicap looks a great deal more competitive , but firm preference is for Dreams End . |
| 17 | Add this to the illness of Hun Sen , the only member of the Cambodian regime who appears willing to risk his future to give peace a chance , and Cambodian peace looks a long way off . |
| 18 | Superior still looks a long way off . |
| 19 | That looks a nice little house there , across there , it looks a big house actually |
| 20 | It has a multi-disciplinary team both for the selection of people to move to the community and to manage their services — take decisions on their services once they are in the community . |
| 21 | Every culture in Britain at the moment has a similar philosophy as far as size goes : if you want to look good , be desirable , you 've got to be thin . |
| 22 | Where political union and sovereignty are concerned , I can see no natural political affinity between the United Kingdom and Luxembourg — a country with a population smaller than Berkshire — or with Belgium , with its divided population , Holland , with its total dependence on its neighbours , or Italy , which has so much difficulty in implementing EC directives , which moralises over other people 's shortcomings and has a new Government roughly every 18 months . |
| 23 | Incidentally the Mirror mentioned that Lee Chapman has a new book out in which he ‘ reveals ’ that Frogslegs left in a huff because he thought he had carried the can for the defeat by Rangers . |
| 24 | Chris Markham has a new club now , for children after school , So you see we 're pretty busy — and that 's generally the rule . |
| 25 | It may be nothing or it may be something that Durham Theatre Company , formed one thought to take theatre to places in the county which never have the opportunity to see it , has a new production out soon . |
| 26 | ‘ By the way , your father has a new horse today . |
| 27 | But it is submitted that a ‘ body of persons ’ has a collective character independently of the question whether it is a mercantile body or not , which the law is bound to protect ; in other words that any such body can sue in respect of an imputation of any conduct whatsoever of which its agents , and therefore itself by its agents , can be guilty . |
| 28 | Wood substance has a specific gravity around 1.4 but freshly felled timber floats ( unless it is a very dense species ) because , even in the unseasoned wood , there is a good deal of air . |
| 29 | Nowhere in the world has a minimum wage not caused higher unemployment . |
| 30 | But intuition has a respectable place both in linguistics and criticism , and the work of the stylo-statistician too often makes him seem , in Dr Johnson 's words , " the stately son of demonstration , who proves with mathematical formality what no man has yet pretended to doubt " . |