Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had in his pocket the key to an office where 5,000 match programmes , a historic souvenir eagerly sought , were stacked . |
| 2 | The great judge Lord Denning in a historic judgment once said that no one , however mighty , was above the law . |
| 3 | A rich soil soon becomes home to rampant weeds which smother less competitive , more attractive plants . |
| 4 | He wore a rich robe so encrusted with precious metals and stones that I wondered if he could stand up under the weight And his eyes were tiny , wet and somehow avid as he looked me over — wholly ignoring Mala — from head to foot . |
| 5 | Is a two-child average here to stay ? |
| 6 | The methods of excavation have to be extremely rigorous , and putting the finds into a dated sequence often relies heavily on individual judgement , although statistical techniques and computers are nowadays used to handle and control the data . |
| 7 | His eyes , dark and set deep beneath a firm , unfurrowed brow , were sleek and watchful ; one 's first impression that they twinkled with a friendly mirth soon vanished . |
| 8 | In contrast to his father , who was once bizarrely pictured as a shy five-year-old formally shaking his own mother 's hand , there are hundreds of photographs showing William enthusiastically throwing his arms around both his parents . |
| 9 | The Chamber of Deputies on May 21 ratified a tripartite accord already approved by the Senate , which had been signed by the army , the provisional government and the leaders of the bicameral legislature on May 8 . |
| 10 | Archbishop Ælfheah of Canterbury was murdered in April 1012 by a Scandinavian army possibly associated with Cnut 's father . |
| 11 | Do n't you find , about five o'clock each day , that you 've got a polite smile permanently creased into your face , like rigor mortis ? ’ |
| 12 | An isolated farm worker in a tied house still remains vulnerable to the ubiquitous pressures of dependence and he would be unlikely to heed a strike call . |
| 13 | Anyone trying to free a seated victim also has to cope with the fact that the faces sculpted on the chair start gibbering and screeching , radiating a Cause Cowardly Flight effect in a 3-yard radius . |
| 14 | I bet you felt a right mechanic then did n't you ? |
| 15 | Confronted with data of the following sort , an extract from a private diary only intended to remind the elderly writer of how she passed a day in January 1982 , the discourse analyst may not be able to proceed very far in his analysis . |
| 16 | Okay if you want a private conversation well go and have a private conversation , but borrow , borrow the code of silence from or get smart or something |
| 17 | It is important , because , as the hon. Member said , there have been earlier opportunities for such legislation — the Government could have chosen to include a measure in their order of business , and a private Member once introduced a Bill , but unfortunately did not have enough time to secure its progress . |
| 18 | Muscular Christians and middle-class moralists in a private capacity certainly boosted the cause or games . |
| 19 | This trend culminated in the overwhelming vote of members of the RICS at an Extraordinary General Meeting in July 1986 in favour of the removal of nearly all the restrictions on practising with limited liability , whether as a public company with outside investment or as a private company still owned by chartered surveyor shareholders . |
| 20 | Old Ashfield was a place of many secrets , a private world neatly encapsulated within its own high walls . |
| 21 | MR GRAEME Souness , the 38-year-old manager of Liverpool football club , was admitted to a private hospital yesterday to undergo major open heart surgery . |
| 22 | A little luck then comes your way . |
| 23 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 24 | But a Spanish visitor once made her realise there was much to be done to improve the look of the University buildings . |
| 25 | As a Spanish observer caustically wrote : ‘ To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward , almost clenching the teeth , and practically immobilising the lips ’ ( José Ortega y Gasset ) . |
| 26 | The Second Sonata often has a Spanish flavour also found in good measure in No. 3 , and explained in part by her move to Barcelona in 1924 : She lived there until Gramatté 's death in 1929 . |
| 27 | Malcolmson has commented that a result of this withdrawal of patronage by the gentry and the better-off farmers as social distance increased was that " a solid barrier so developed between the culture of gentility and the culture of the people " . |
| 28 | A dissatisfied customer recently sent in the following example : ‘ The signatory confirms the accuracy of the above information to the best of his knowledge and hereby authorises and requests ABC Limited to furnish the bank with any evidence they so require forthwith . ’ |
| 29 | The first acknowledgement of a possible opportunity usually applies to an area in which a company does better than budgeted . |
| 30 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |