Example sentences of "of a [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 2 | This is not an unproblematic statement ( as we saw in 1.4 ) , but is sufficiently true of a wide enough range of cases not to be cast aside lightly . |
| 3 | There are many fine performances of Sibelius No. 1 on the market , but it seems to me that two really stand out : the recently re-issued VPO/Maazel on the Decca ( part of a desirably all seven symphonies on ) , and the EMI BPO/Karajan ( also mid-price the Karelia Suite on ) . |
| 4 | Before the 1850s this had been a problem of a relatively few families ; in some countries , such as Germany , of hardly any . |
| 5 | On three , if you see then three that we the county council will not support a development of capital , cabinet or executive management , arrangements which would tend to concentrate power in the hands of a relatively few members stifle public debate and diminish the role of the majority of members . |
| 6 | Clearly the ornithologist must expect the evolution of agriculture to continue , and its most likely result will be to produce a much more uniform habitat with consequently a much less varied bird population than at present , composed of a comparatively few widespread and adaptable species . |
| 7 | You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name ! |
| 8 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 9 | The broad conclusion must be that the majority of owners of small parcels lived within a radius of a very few miles . |
| 10 | I think all these developments will be painful but could come to a good end : the genetic bad luck of a very few may , eventually , be helped by many in that general health insurance and tough anti-discrimination laws could become reality . |
| 11 | Yet all around her , in their revolutionary impulse , men and women not of the greatness of Coleridge but certainty of a similar ambition were beginning to log and classify , to catalogue and proudly identify what , until quite recently , had been the terrain of a very few — the variety of nature as known by Mary . |
| 12 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 13 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 14 | A very warm day here at Lord 's , breeze just starting to get up a little , in fact the sun has just disappeared behind one of a very few clouds . |
| 15 | ONE OF the last of a now all but extinct breed , Johnny Martin bowled unorthodox slow left-arm in eight Tests for Australia during the 1960s , and was , when his aggressive batting was taken into account , as great an entertainment package as almost any cricketer to come out of NSW . |
| 16 | The other ‘ new boys ’ are of a much latter epoch and include the Pitts S-1S that the late Neil Williams flew during the World Aerobatic Championships outside Moscow in what was then the USSR . |