Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | These rubber Hammers failed to respond even when Allen marked his transfer from one club to the other with a spectacular , 27th minute shot that cancelled out Wise 's rather streaky opening goal for Chelsea only a minute earlier . |
| 32 | It is suggested , therefore , that the husband 's solicitors should submit to the wife 's solicitors merely a copy of the last conveyance , together with a copy of any mortgage affecting the property and memoranda of any " sales-off " or other documents affecting the legal title . |
| 33 | The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Hudson and Denner present only a successful and respected gentleman whose accomplishments might only be guessed at . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Urging a review of the UK system , compared it with France where , although special support went to deprived regions , there was a wide range of financial incentives specially tailored to industrial programmes so a higher proportion went to businesses most likely to produce the best results . |
| 39 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election only a handful of very small parties that were genuinely political fielded candidates . |
| 40 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 41 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 42 | She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before . |
| 43 | " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 44 | Move that up a bit so a little better . |
| 45 | This involves not only reflecting on why certain types of behaviours are defined as criminal in some historical periods and not others , but also why a particular criminal law comes to incorporate from relatively homogeneous behaviour patterns only a portion and exclude the remainder , even though each and every instance of this behaviour causes avoidable harm , injury , or deprivation . |
| 46 | When sequences are similar the team will indicate their preferences so a rough cut can be made by the editor , who joins all the desired sequences together and cuts the whole thing to the exact time . |
| 47 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 48 | I would like to see a streamlined funding system operated by a simple agency with lead responsibility Perhaps a defined percentage should be made available to voluntary organisations I would like to see proper involvement of voluntary organisations at all levels of the Joint Planning Process . |
| 49 | As a result , they receive for their milk only a fifth of the price paid to European farmers , a third of the price paid to American farmers , and one-seventh of that paid in Japan . |
| 50 | All these stars are concentrated in a field only a little over a degree in diameter . |
| 51 | The English columns kept arriving , but of course only a small proportion of the great host could move up to occupy that terrace position . |
| 52 | He enclosed a cover note , explaining in his clerkly style that it was of course only a rough estimate , and that I was n't beholden to reimburse him penny for penny . |
| 53 | It is of course only a question of time and evolution . |
| 54 | Yet this is of course only a very partial view of what these sociologists were attempting . |
| 55 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 56 | However , in most cities only a relatively small proportion of jobs lost go elsewhere , most are simply lost . |
| 57 | By contrast only a few reptiles , like tortoises and iguanas , are herbivores . |
| 58 | Meanwhile in the supermarket car park only a few hundred yards from the scene of the rape , women expressed their shock at what had happened : |
| 59 | Nevertheless , they caused concern among employees , especially in sections of the new set-up that had been hard hit in the recession only a few years before . |
| 60 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |