Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a vocation just as much as marriage and sometimes far less demanding . |
| 2 | And we 've got quite a bit well either that or we could watch the programme and then wash up , clear up and go to bed . |
| 3 | yeah yeah and fine now I think somebody 's coming to see me at eleven and then I 'm teaching from twelve til two , somebody 's coming to see me at two but a bit later on this afternoon or on Monday morning I can do |
| 4 | right okay em are you free a bit later on this afternoon , probably around about threeish possibly ? |
| 5 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 6 | Actually I 've moved it a bit too far that way have I ? |
| 7 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 8 | But it is difficult to measure the effort in military and social co-ordination which such isolated outposts must have required : they were a liability just as much as a help . |
| 9 | ‘ Basically , someone has to take a stand now otherwise all the single-teacher schools in the Borders could go in a very short time , ’ declared the association chairman , Annmarie Crowe , of St Abbs , yesterday . |
| 10 | If we do n't make a stand now then all of us in this hall will be a living , breathing testament to the betrayal of all those that have gone before us and we 'll leave nothing for anybody coming in the future . |
| 11 | Executive chairman of a car manufacturer would not be one 's first stab at Gauntlett 's profession : ruddy in a way that Englishmen are n't any more , a pinstripe only just this side of loud , silk handkerchief , he looks hand-stitched , coach-built , bespoke . |
| 12 | This chart is designed to show at a glance exactly how many rooms have been let and exactly how many rooms are still available to be let and their type . |
| 13 | As a result far too many people emerge from their doctor , lawyer or bank manager feeling that they have not had a fair deal and have been treated as children rather than as adults who know their own mind . |
| 14 | There is a chapter later on that will help you pinpoint the good aspects of your everyday eating habits . |
| 15 | Give him a ring later on this evening . |
| 16 | Devoted Dad : ‘ Simon loves being a parent just as much as I do ’ |
| 17 | Well I ca , I 'll ask a question then so that will have to be answered . |
| 18 | And , I certainly have taken steps to make sure that I do n't get a wasps nest , but in that particular area again , because he begged to point out to me where the wasp was getting access to , a little tiny space above my bedroom window , and that has now been sealed , so hopefully the wasps another year will find a home somewhere else that is n't quite so close to my open bedroom window . |
| 19 | England under Graham Taylor are a joke already so any further lines are welcome . |
| 20 | Against this must be set a non-response about twice that for a random sample involving house calls . |
| 21 | But his stable revealed that the 10-year-old could be diverted to the Hackett Chase at Cheltenham tomorrow over a distance just over half a mile shorter than the Mackeson . |
| 22 | He would commit a nuisance just as much if what he owned were a manure heap . |
| 23 | Probably the only thing is obviously I 've been there a while now so any previous employment and the people that were there are n't there any longer . |
| 24 | So they 're going to finish u they should finish up with a quarter so again this sharing sometimes it works okay and we just get a normal counting number . |
| 25 | It 's only a mile away where that er red bloody pickle thing was . |
| 26 | It was observed , and this was quite unexpected , that the A-measure also increased with radiometer reading , and indeed at a rate only slightly less than the I-measure . |
| 27 | I continually demanded my right to have hormone treatment and operations , to become a man physically as much as possible . |
| 28 | You 're like every other man I 've ever met , you assume a woman who looks like me ca n't feel complete without a man , but , as a much wiser woman than I once said , a woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle . ’ |
| 29 | there was a hole there where that arch is , there was a little hole that |
| 30 | This is a city very much all of a piece , its chief delight for visitors lying in its completeness , in the hands-off self containment of its torpid , shuttered streets . |