Example sentences of "[is] a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was slippy though I mean I noticed that even , you know just pulling away from or something like that okay I mean it 's a reasonably car but I mean , you know just a little bit too heavy on the accelerator |
| 2 | I believe that we achieve this very successfully , and when you bear in mind the pressure under which the Magistracy have been in recent times , with erm industrial action , demonstrations , which have brought them to the forefront of the attention , I think it 's a remarkably achievement that the Magistrates have come through this with the public in general terms satisfied with the performance of Magistrates in the discharge of these very onerous functions . |
| 3 | And that 's a rather sort of formal blouse . |
| 4 | A social worker , who said to me , inside every , every , what she say so inside er , every juvenile delinquent , there 's a little Leonardo da Vinci trying to get out . |
| 5 | That 's a worst case scenario . |
| 6 | There 's a slightly response too . |
| 7 | Here 's a simply suggestion why do n't you move the facilities from the stage door club down to the foyer bar so that a load of people can go in there you 'd change the general denouement of the foyer bar . |
| 8 | There 's a there 's a perfectly example of marketing . |
| 9 | yep it 's just that some of the cottages tend to be a bit smaller so that it might well be that we can get you something where there 's a perhaps ground floor extension or whatever okay . |
| 10 | This kind of art 's often referred to as minimal art , which helps , you know , like most stables there 's a quite way of referring to stuff , and indeed very often this kind of art relates to very simple forms , which just one colour , or perhaps no colour if it 's a piece of wood for instance , or a large canvass covered with just one colour , a monochrome canvas — you referred to monochromes earlier . |
| 11 | It 's a very sort of secondary school type word is n't it ? |
| 12 | and er you know I think coming to a , a university is a thing that you know like it 's a very sort of novel experience for a lot of people and you know certainly when I started the human psych course here , you know about twelve , thirteen years ago erm you know I did n't know what on earth was , was requ required and I agonized over work for quite , quite a long time and er |
| 13 | I mean , police stations regularly become full of stolen items and we 've got nowhere to put it , and we have to have these displays erm , where we try and and trace the owners , it 's a , a very difficult job , it 's a very time consuming job |
| 14 | It 's a fully comp , I 'm paying a hundred and fifty one pounds . |
| 15 | Normally , I 'm pretty good with nurses , although that 's a terribly chauvinist thing to say . |
| 16 | Since a condition has a logical priority with respect to what it allows , there is a before/after relation between what know predicates and what the infinitive does , which calls for the use of to . |
| 17 | Inevitably , over such a long period , I became less institutionalized , more able to function as an individual in relation to belief and action and not merely accept the organization 's definition of things ; and this is a profoundly un-police like state of affairs ! |
| 18 | The dive planning screen is a look-ahead facility showing a selection of depths and no-stop times depending on your current decompression status . |
| 19 | There is a backwards movement in saying No , which can be a slight withdrawal of head and shoulders ; a more emphatic shake of the head perhaps accompanied by the hand pushing away an undesirable request or person , e.g. Juliet 's rejection of Paris in the Bedroom scene . |
| 20 | The abuse heaped upon Labour 's devolution proposals by the SNP during the general election is a recent-enough reminder that the SNP is a party of no compromise . |
| 21 | The single ‘ It 's Not What You Know ’ , a remarkable welding together of headband aesthetics and hypnotic syncopation , is a curmudgeonly diamond of a song . |
| 22 | Cricket is the other major sporting interest of first generation Caribbeans — understandably enough in view of the popularity of that sport in the West Indies — but , of course , in the UK , it is a rather club oriented , many would say middle-class , sport , access to which is narrowly circumscribed . |
| 23 | The reason this figure was produced is erm because one of the comments we had back from the other induction courses er Gareth , the reason we had produced this video was erm structure you 've never shown it , so it 's not necessarily tongue in cheek but it is a strictly sales structure but it will give you a clearer idea of our guide what to do to the role plays this morning , Saturday and tomorrow . |
| 24 | This is a decidedly minority view and goes against the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence . |
| 25 | Where there is a predominantly yin landscape , the favourable site would be one which had yang characteristics , such as Glastonbury Tor , or the sacred aboriginal site of Ayers Rock in Australia , both prominent features rising out of a flat plain . |
| 26 | No. 140 is a purely Leipzig piece dating from 1731 when it was sung on the rarely occurring Twenty Seventh Sunday after Trinity . |
| 27 | The example illustrated in Fig. 561 is a purely timber log structure of the type built all over eastern Europe till long after the Middle Ages . |
| 28 | James Joyce is a pre-eminently Class 2 novelist , and so for comparative purposes , Burgess offers us ( tongue-in-cheek ) a translation into Class 1 language of the opening of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . |
| 29 | Hot Press is a fortnightly publication which concentrates on music and current affairs . |
| 30 | Isomerisation of the 1,3-rings to their 1,2-isomers is a photochemically symmetry allowed process which is thermally symmetry forbidden . |