Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , there was a pleasant inn about a quarter of a mile away where I could get a room if the tide — in the way of tides — served at some merciless hour of the early morning . |
| 2 | If the house has a solid floor then a radon stump has to be dug into the foundations . |
| 3 | Erm you know there is no doubt in our system of government that the power is highly centralized and that local government is seen as a , a possible convenience well a public convenience probably erm something |
| 4 | Th this company must be in a bloody sight worse a mess than we thought and the government are not letting us know this is what they 're look for are scapegoats and they they 're . |
| 5 | Bury St Edmunds is a picturesque historical town with many interesting buildings including the remains of an abbey founded in 945 and Moyse 's Hall , a 12th-century mansion now a museum of local history . |
| 6 | The sitters are evidently at their ease , and in the background we see a representation of the Dutch House at Kew , a favourite place just a few miles from London where they could escape from the formalities of public life . |
| 7 | For those who liked cleaning their buttons there was button polish and a British parade once a year on the King 's Birthday . |
| 8 | FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab . |
| 9 | She and Luc share a luxurious flat just a stone 's throw from the famous Hollywood sign — complete with swimming pool . |
| 10 | The tunnel cuts through a saddle into the valley of the Stinchar river , so on a calm morning even a heavy train on the bank could hardly be heard from the Pinmore side of the tunnel . |
| 11 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 12 | Pachinko is a £3.8bn-a-year industry which has a Svengali-like hold over a quarter of the adult population . |
| 13 | I would say conditions were a wee bit easier a wee bit you had a wee bit more freedom because they knew they could not replace anybody if they gave the sack . |
| 14 | Mhm , it was just a wee bit quite a big one we used to call it |
| 15 | It is often not convenient to square a large integer so a selected part of the key may be squared instead . |
| 16 | Two weeks ago , I revisited Zagreb having previously led a parliamentary delegation there a year ago . |
| 17 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 18 | Our object is to illuminate one of these l.e.d.s in a random manner directly a correct hit has been made by the batsman at the crease . |
| 19 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 20 | And when I was a little boy just a little bit bigger than Christopher I was shown round it with granny and grandpa and Uncle Michael and Uncle David . |
| 21 | Everyone has the gift of life — and for the sake of just a little pain over a week it 's a wonderful opportunity to take . |
| 22 | Well I mean they do n't have a great lot so a concert , did you see the dresses ? |
| 23 | It will save me a long journey twice a day to Norton Junction . ’ |
| 24 | A long way away a cloud of sand martins wheeled in the air before roosting . |
| 25 | The real problem , of course , is that with only one prize in the art world it is so difficult to select only four artists who have made a major contribution over a year . |
| 26 | If breakfast is a cut-and-run meal then a bar counter is a good idea and a nice compromise between setting a proper table and snatching a cup of coffee on the wing . |
| 27 | Approximately one third of each group achieved a good degree ie a first or upper second . |
| 28 | We could clinch a play-off place with a good run yet a lot of fans appear to have written off our season . |
| 29 | But when scientific method is employed to keep the work of sociology along the lines of a growing discipline then a close relationship between theory , hypothesis and facts must be maintained . |
| 30 | So , through no fault of my own , I was at a loose end quite a bit . |