Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she said in as offhand a voice as she could manage , ‘ I met him — briefly . |
| 2 | While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought I might go upstream a bit and wash off some of this dirt , ’ she said evenly , fingering her hair distastefully . |
| 4 | Further upstream a cache of rubbish had been washed against the bank . |
| 5 | When I was asking them which was their favourite area , not unsurprisingly a couple of them mentioned the Lake District — anytime except in the summer holidays . |
| 6 | Furthermore a clause in the draft of the bill which would have allowed the use of state school premises after school hours for religious instruction had been dropped after the Supreme Soviet had failed to reach agreement on it after passing the whole bill at first reading on Sept. 26 . |
| 7 | Furthermore a trader will be able to use , as a complete defence , evidence that in the relevant respect , he complied with the requirements of safety regulations or any approved standard of safety . |
| 8 | Furthermore a student who had a fragile grasp of particular concepts and skills would have a reduced chance of getting much further in a graduated test scheme . |
| 9 | There are lots of things in this erm erm do notice that Locke is emphasising that by the social contract individuals establish a unitary body , a community and furthermore a community which has the capacity to act . |
| 10 | Furthermore a drop ’ in maintenance spending is also likely as both the landlord 's means and incentive to spend money on the property are reduced . |
| 11 | Furthermore a number of the alternative words suggested when using the large lexicon , would be unknown to many native speakers ( e.g. betel , bey , littoral , lour , rentiers , ret ) . |
| 12 | Furthermore a citizen can only enforce the cancellation by making a formal objection within one month of notification ; and if that objection is rejected by the authority , the citizen must take legal action within another month . |
| 13 | Furthermore a solicitor 's experience of advocacy is only through magistrates courts and is completely different . |
| 14 | For several decades , Panama was juridically a protectorate of the United States , and effectively an American colony . |
| 15 | At 2pm a five-mile sponsored walk will be held from the church , finishing at about 4.30pm with refreshments . |
| 16 | Christopher sat easily on the corner of his office table his Company Sergeant Major ramrod stiff a pace behind on his right . |
| 17 | Due to the Transfer Regulations , the purchaser is in much the same and in no better a position than if he had bought the shares of the vendor company . |
| 18 | The reason I like this section is because I like the way Mrs Aimsley thinks , the more expensive her glass , the better a position it deserves on one of her shelves . |
| 19 | The language has an insistent rhythm , but the better a rapper is the more they break away from it , tease it , play with it . |
| 20 | A : Better a government that pays lip service to democracy than one which does n't even do that . |
| 21 | But he owed it to Lefevre ; better a friend should do it than a semi-stranger like Davout , or even his commanding officer . |
| 22 | ‘ Better a devil you know than a devil you do n't , ’ I said . |
| 23 | The better a salesman you are the more likely you are to succeed . |
| 24 | Better a culture in which men have one wife and women need not shroud themselves in black , we 'll say . |
| 25 | But there are things he does not know , and the knowledge will somewhat better a case which even so is still black enough . |
| 26 | Try to understand what 's in people 's minds ; because when you understand that much better , you 'll have that much better a chance of making profit . |
| 27 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 28 | The report concluded that a pupil 's performance was closely related to his or her father 's occupational status : the higher that status , the better a pupil 's performance , not only in leaving school less early but in having a better academic record and , in the headmaster 's judgement , more ‘ promise ’ . |
| 29 | Better a gluey friend than none , |
| 30 | William Barr obliged and , on Oct. 10 , the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) , William Sessions , announced that he was embarking on an inquiry into possible misconduct at the Justice Department ( of which the FBI was institutionally a part ) with regard to the handling of CIA reports . |