Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw myself as a write-off as far as boyfriends were concerned . |
| 2 | Today threatened to be a write-off as far as work was concerned , but perhaps she could recoup some of the lost time later on . |
| 3 | A bit longer today cos of the fog . |
| 4 | Now you know , wi with lots of experts in this field and so we 're we only simply put that forward as a , a general suggestion whether it should be one-third from them and two- thirds from the pension funds , you know , I do n't think is a matter of great importance to us , but we do think that the should perhaps be a bit spread , spread a bit more widely than just into the pension funds . |
| 5 | ‘ What ought we to do ? ’ said Fenella , a bit more loudly than she had meant . |
| 6 | In think you can write about it a bit more meaningfully than that . ’ |
| 7 | Well you 'll have to put him down a bit more carefully than that . |
| 8 | ‘ I would suggest that you think a bit more carefully before you decide to commit yourself to another long-term relationship . ’ |
| 9 | All loose clothing such as overtrousers should be tucked into gaiters and you should learn to walk with your feet a bit further apart than normal . |
| 10 | But as Mrs Charley says : ‘ When you 've given up holidays and worked on a budget as tight as ours then you have to believe in miracles . ’ |
| 11 | The idea of higher education as ‘ liberal ’ turns into a fiction so long as courses are determined solely by the introverted stance of the student 's core discipline . |
| 12 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 13 | And Catherine has a heart as deep as mine ! ’ |
| 14 | The star of the show , of course , was Ebenezer Scrooge , the greedy , grasping grouch with a heart as hard as left-over Christmas pud . |
| 15 | The Leviathan was a ruthless and cruel creature , with ‘ a heart as hard as a millstone ’ , and it destroyed anything which came in its path . |
| 16 | " Why , I and a few of my friends can plough up a field as fast as two men and two teams of horses . " |
| 17 | On 4 July 1638 Alured got into serious trouble with the court for saying of the Scots that ‘ they did well ’ in opposing the king and he hoped ‘ they would reform this land by a parliament as well as they have done theirs already ’ . |
| 18 | The Park was created in 1967 and runs along the watershed in a strip never more than twelve kilometres wide , from the Aspe valley to the mass if of Néouvielle more than 100 kilometres to the east . |
| 19 | The answer which is usually proffered is a variant of the ‘ snapshot ’ argument : the stock of capital is so large in comparison with variations in the relevant flows that it would take a timespan considerably longer than the Keynesian short run for variations in the rate of net investment to have a significant impact on the size of the stock of capital . |
| 20 | But advertising is itself extremely volatile and profits could take a dive as easily as they could soar . |
| 21 | Using such techniques , we can determine the direction of a noise more accurately than any other animal , with a few notable exceptions , including the barn owl . |
| 22 | On the road , the biggest difference you notice with the diesel is the need to change up a gear slightly earlier than in a petrol car . |
| 23 | At seven o'clock on a chilly Saturday evening in November , the shroud of darkness enveloping it was a kindness as far as Captain Roddy Simcox was concerned . |
| 24 | ‘ If Pinder is to be believed , it was missing at twelve-thirty , ’ said Sergeant Bird , taking a seat as quietly as a man of his bulk could manage . |
| 25 | He took a sandwich as casually as he could , covering the embarrassment of his capitulation by asking : ‘ What were those foreign words you said a moment ago ? ’ |
| 26 | A figure much better than the 100,000-plus constantly bandied about by some financial commentators . |
| 27 | And that meant quite a effect as far as the aborigines were concerned they had lost their territory ! |
| 28 | And lastly , are you an optimist or a pessimist so far as the future 's concerned ? |
| 29 | I will ensure that the hon. Gentleman receives a reply as soon as possible . |
| 30 | Do you think women are at a disadvantage so far as this computer age is concerned ? |