Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a bit [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're really in favour of something , you vote for it twice but if you 're just a bit in favour of it you vote once . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm still a bit of novice where scrummaging is concerned . |
| 3 | Er and I 'm quite sure there 'll be quite a bit of change to many of our procedures . |
| 4 | There has been quite a bit of inflation since then but even then six million dollars was not a lot . |
| 5 | ‘ There has been quite a bit of hype and I do n't think the film lived up to it . ’ |
| 6 | And there 's been quite a bit of success in in that area both of the newspaper companies er , are doing better than last year and er Longmans for instance expect er expect their operating cash flow erm their working capital rather to be lower this year than last year by by year end . |
| 7 | Dr Anne Dew , who is organising the vigil at Dryburn hospital , Durham , said : ‘ There has been quite a bit of support for the vigil from staff in all areas of work at the hospital . |
| 8 | There has been quite a bit of litigation in the United States in which taxpayers have sought to challenge some use to which taxes have been put . |
| 9 | But Bill 86 , admittedly , is mostly a bit of fine-tuning . |
| 10 | The physics department would tell you that chemistry 's only a bit of physics anyway . |
| 11 | Oh , so it 's only a bit of corn . |
| 12 | And it 's only a bit of entertainment , and we must really stand up and say this is our game and , it belongs to us ! |
| 13 | The mind reels at such extremes of scale , yet the man responsible dismisses it lightly : ‘ It 's only a bit of fun . ’ |
| 14 | It 's only a bit of fun . |
| 15 | If there 's only a bit of beef you have the beef and I 'll have some cheese . |
| 16 | and erm , James said you not going out in this surely , yeah , yeah , it 's only a bit of rain and he come home and he was drenched right the way through top to bottom |
| 17 | For some this they hope is the first step on the road to a more stable musicl career to others it is just a bit of fun . |
| 18 | Look how that flower is just a bit of wire hovering over her hat |
| 19 | IN THIS week of the election , we can expect to see Peter Snow doing his impersonation of John Cleese , with lots of statistics produced by computers accompanied by the timeless phrase — ‘ it 's just a bit of fun ’ . |
| 20 | " There 's just a bit of enamel off it , and Mr Grover said … |
| 21 | It 's just a bit of student fun . |
| 22 | I said oh do n't worry about it , it 's just a bit of confusion about |
| 23 | Yeah it 's just a bit of pain . |
| 24 | Sorry that 's just a bit of advice |
| 25 | The next message would spill over into the financial pages , though there is still a bit of theology — verses 4 to 8 . |
| 26 | There 's always a little bit of bottom down and there 's always a bit of top up , regardless . |
| 27 | Coming back to look at this erm er , as I say , very attractive building , again , and you can see there 's still a bit of work there . |
| 28 | There 's still a bit of repair work going on on the M forty , that 's between junctions one and one A between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions . |
| 29 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 30 | Significantly he added : ‘ There is also a bit of bottle in this team . |