Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked out of the sunlight into the cool dark shadow of the gorge , meeting no deity with oozy hair hot a couple eating sandwiches and two crag rats . |
| 2 | communism rather a , a weak theory does n't it ? |
| 3 | I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately . |
| 4 | And we try to show that retirement can be a rewarding and fulfilling I find it so anyway so I can sell things in that er sense having an experience rather a young person talking to older people how er fulfilling it wis is in retirement . |
| 5 | It is very difficult to seal all the cracks in a building so a more effective method is to create an underpressure beneath the floor to counter that in the building . |
| 6 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 7 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |
| 8 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 9 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 10 | Cut the crap — he 's doing a handrail down a flight of steps , that 's all . |
| 11 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 12 | It was high time someone took his young sister down a peg . |
| 13 | Menem , who had accepted Yoma 's resignation only a few days before , had been forced to suspend her from her post in March when a report by a Spanish investigative judge , hearing evidence in the Spanish capital , Madrid , accused her of being part of an international drug laundering ring . |
| 14 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 15 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 16 | THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office . |
| 17 | ‘ Greed , cynicism , the rotters and the agents have spoiled it , ’ McIlvanney reflects bitterly , ‘ the rotters ’ being the trade term for journalists trained to sniff out sensation or scandal , or failing that , to drop a cheque down a hole and see who bites . |
| 18 | That narrows the field down a bit , if it 's correct . |
| 19 | At the time of argument before the Board only an abbreviated account of the judgment , reported in The Times , 16 April 1992 , was available for consideration . |
| 20 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 21 | In order to allow the experiment to be completed by subjects in one hour only a subset of the original films from Studies 2 and 3 were used . |
| 22 | They sing the chorus together a second time . |
| 23 | Normal was what people said some of their actions and relations were , from time to time , and in Marcus 's experience what they said they were bore only a vague relation to their actual forms and configurations . |
| 24 | A steep scramble down an ivy-covered slope leads one into a place of great natural beauty alive with the earth spirit force . |
| 25 | Edwards , 29 , endured eight marathons in 11 days over Christmas , ran several without sleep and regarded a broken bone in his foot , sustained in a stumble down an Alpine pass , as an occupational hazard to be ignored . |
| 26 | The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake . |
| 27 | Ideally an entry which is at present only a cross-reference might be better made into a full entry , while the existing entries might be better turned into cross-references , and so on . |
| 28 | Since there is at present only a small pool of people with experience in this area the use of practitioners as trainers provides an element of ‘ training the trainers ’ in the course team . |
| 29 | Hudson and Denner present only a successful and respected gentleman whose accomplishments might only be guessed at . |
| 30 | Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems . |