Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you have you got any er idea of how i it came about that a group was so organized ? |
| 2 | Wan na say a bit more about that a little later on . |
| 3 | And I 'll talk about that a bit more . |
| 4 | she must think about that a lot . |
| 5 | cub like that with a stick , I know a job about that a blind man coming , a blind man was walking down the pavement with a stick , so on the side of the pavement there 's this dog turd |
| 6 | At either end of the state saloon , and entirely unconnected with it , are small compartments , for each a guard , who has the control of a powerful argand lamp which , on passing through the tunnels along the line , reflects a strong light through a ground glass of globular form inserted in the panelling . |
| 7 | Definition 2.6.1 A function ( also called map , mapping , or transformation ) from a non-empty set A to a non-empty set B is a non-empty subset f of A x B such that for each a ε A there exists exactly one b ε B for which ( a , b ) ) ε f . |
| 8 | That is , f = g iff A = C and af = ag for each a ε A ( = C ) . |
| 9 | To check that we have the correct total number of vibrational degrees of freedom , we count one for each a ( or b ) species vibration , and two for each e ( doubly degenerate ) vibration . |
| 10 | So , third , the purpose of the Council was not just to restate and defend past doctrines — for that a Council was not necessary — but to ‘ make a leap forward in doctrinal insight and the education of consciences in ever greater fidelity to authentic teaching . |
| 11 | For that a settled ethical character is as necessary as is intelligence itself . |
| 12 | This is done by setting the model on a flat surface , measuring the height of one blade tip , then rotating the rotor head through half a turn and measuring the height of the other blade . |
| 13 | By now we had crossed through half a dozen vegetation zones — the botanical equivalent of a journey from Canada to New Mexico . |
| 14 | Alina had sniffled her way through half a box of Kleenex from the glove compartment , and she seemed even more disinclined toward conversation than Pete . |
| 15 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 16 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 17 | Dispensing with the paths that snaked through half a dozen different garden realms , she brushed through the shrubbery , feeling a little wild in the wake of her primitive gesture . |
| 18 | So if you 're looking for something , bit of a pain having to wade through half a dozen pages , if you can go to the index and then jump directly to the relevant page , and then save you a bit of time . |
| 19 | Charles smoked his way through half a packet of Gauloises while John told his story . |
| 20 | ‘ But before my brain got into gear after finding you 'd cleared the wardrobe in the lobby of your belongings and I realised you 'd gone , I went through half a dozen possibilities before I rang Reception . ’ |
| 21 | Just stop and think about this a minute . |
| 22 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
| 23 | I 've thought about this a lot , I doubt that I could have started this channel . |
| 24 | But now , my dear fellows , let's just think about this a moment , shall we ? |
| 25 | Traffic , unflattering angles , our knows about this a very subtle way |
| 26 | Now , if I asked you , right , to present information about this A Level , cos it 's something you all know about , okay . |
| 27 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 28 | The Clapham accident of December 1988 , the first for half a century in Britain due to the failure of the signalling , appalled the public in demonstrating how poor morale and discipline were in a vital part of the service at a key point . |
| 29 | For the separatists , IME offers escape from the system — political as well as economic — which has imprisoned their nation for half a century . |
| 30 | Here , as inmates with red-rimmed eyes and ash-grey faces barter items like a shirt or a spoon for half a bowl of soup , a nightmarish market economy is seen in operation . |