Example sentences of "[noun] [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 Magnificent though Rasari was , you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line .
3 communism rather a , a weak theory does n't it ?
4 Then Ramsey said , ‘ I think you will find Lincoln rather a quiet place . ’
5 I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive .
10 It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier !
11 It was not felt appropriate to raise this as a direct question to the authorities so an application was made to Namibia for an amateur radio licence for a Dxpedition to the Penguins .
12 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 .
13 For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically .
14 In all these advanced cases only a pair finally incubate , brood , and feed the young .
15 Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms .
16 For one thing , if , as will be considered shortly , employment income is in some cases only a small proportion of a manager 's return from the company , then even with a significant correlation between remuneration and growth the growth motive would be cancelled out .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 At Ten Bel , Geminis provides the best of both worlds — an ideal environment for a relaxing holiday , with the lively activities of Drago only a moment 's walk away .
22 As Dicey says , ‘ the appeal to precedent is in the law courts merely a useful fiction by which judicial decision conceals its transformation into judicial legislation ’ .
23 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 .
24 Only 17 anglers turned up for Sunday 's Notts AA Open on the Trent at Shelford so a match was organised downstream at East Bridgeford where there was a stunning result .
25 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 .
26 Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane .
27 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 .
28 The news of the retreat came into Shrewsbury only a day ahead of the returning vanguard , and filled the town with rumours and counter-rumours .
29 They sing the chorus together a second time .
30 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 .
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