Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These men happily induce front tyre slides , either with a touch more brake , a tweak on the bars or a fraction more lean angle . |
| 2 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 3 | These are handsome , rusty brown birds with a remarkably amicable disposition for a bird of prey , though they can catch a rabbit or a bird as large as a heron with ease . |
| 4 | It could 've varied , you know , any time if you like from , from March till May and without knowing the exact date you might be a bit late or a bit too early er for future business . |
| 5 | Erm it was still pretty marginal er but er at least it was opened and erm in eighteen er it carried on until , in eighteen seventy , seventy one , the line was extended back to or a station roughly halfway between the two . |
| 6 | Or a mite more forgiving in a tight spot ? |
| 7 | The poor acceleration of an aerotow makes a swing or a wing-drop more likely . |
| 8 | Or a shade more solid on the straight ? |
| 9 | Moreover , Europe was still recovering from wartime devastation , and had achieved neither political coherence nor a sound enough military/ industrial base to provide a viable alternative to the North American connection . |
| 10 | The present rate for the Earth is such that a crater over 10 km diameter is very likely to be produced somewhere on dry land at some time over the next 200 000 years . |
| 11 | ‘ such occasions [ when a judge may properly rule that a document ordinarily immune in the public interest should in the public interest be disclosed ] will be exceptional and the fluctuating fortunes of parties in litigious combat will rarely justify a judge in disturbing an immunity firmly rooted in the public interest . |
| 12 | Mr Hooke says he finds it hard to imagine that a company as large as Raytheon would propose a £250m takeover without knowing how Corporate Jets would fit into its existing operations . |
| 13 | What displaced it was a sense of outrage that a man as kindly and compassionate as Edwin Frere should find himself shackled to a vixen . |
| 14 | It seemed inconceivable that a man as fantastic as Damian Flint could find her attractive , and as she realised that that was what she truly thought of him she felt her hands move caressingly on his strong throat and her eyes move down unsteadily to study his mouth . |
| 15 | ‘ He is wealthy and he does n't eat better than us and his father works in his garden ’ was a comment tinged with admiration , but dominated nonetheless by the thought that a man so obsessed did not lead the full life . |
| 16 | The policy behind section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act is presumably that Parliament considered that a girl under 16 is generally unlikely to be sufficiently mature to realise the full implications of sexual intercourse ; so that her protection demands that a belief by a man under the age of 24 that she herself was over the age of 16 should not be only an honest but also a reasonable belief . ’ |
| 17 | HOW strange that a girl as pretty as the winner of the Kim Basinger lookalike contest in America should be called Andrew Wright . |
| 18 | The difficulty for the prosecution is proving that a child so young intended to commit a crime . |
| 19 | Then , as section 2 of the 1980 Act , they have the duty , originally spelt out in section 1 of the 1948 Act , to receive a child into care where it appears that a child under 17 ‘ has neither parent nor guardian or is lost or that his parents or guardian are , for the time being or permanently , prevented by reason of mental or bodily disease or infirmity or other incapacity or any other circumstances from providing for his proper accommodation , maintenance and upbringing ; and in either case , that the intervention of the local authority under this section is necessary in the interests of the welfare of the child ’ . |
| 20 | The decision is however profoundly unsatisfactory , not least in that two , if not three , of the members of the court attached weight to the fact that the railway company as a common carrier had sold the pregnant mother one ticket and not two — a conclusion which , if valid today , would carry the consequence that a child under three who can travel without a ticket on British Railways would have no remedy against British Railways if injured by the negligence of the British Rail employees . |
| 21 | In his message to the nation of 31 December 1950 , Franco admitted that " the rhythm of resettlement is still a long way below our ambitions " , but immediately excused this by saying that a sector so vital as agriculture would be damaged by " erroneous or precipitate reform " . |
| 22 | Add to that a history as rich and compelling as that of any in the country and the possibilities for excursions with a difference take shape . |
| 23 | All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse . |
| 24 | It is fitting that a hero so maladroit should be a Malaprop as well . |
| 25 | The problem from the tenant 's point of view is that a termination under 5.2.1 will not ( at least in a normal market ) result in the ( landlord 's ) works being wasted , whereas the tenant may have expended a considerable sum of money not only on its works but also in preliminary arrangements . |
| 26 | The failure to comply with section 67 in this regard does not have the consequence that a debt otherwise due and payable ceases to be due and payable . |
| 27 | It certainly is a good story but it is hard to believe that a designer as experienced as Tupolev would casually use such information without first carefully checking it out , particularly if one considers the history of the Russian aircraft industry which over the years has sprung many surprises upon the West and will doubtless do so again in the future . |
| 28 | Their points difference is vastly better than Rugby 's who are standing alongside them at the bottom and surely there was no way that a team as disadvantaged as Rugby could beat a team as talented as the Harlequins . |
| 29 | It is a measure of Edward II 's loss of control of his family that a matter as important as his heir 's marriage could be arranged without his prior knowledge or consent . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm amazed that a club as big as Manchester United can react in this way . |