Example sentences of "a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appearance of a Frithuric among the Middle Angles in the reign of Wulfhere 's successor , Aethelred , giving Bredun , probably Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire , to the monastery of Peterborough in the time of Seaxwulf , Wynfrith 's successor as bishop of Lichfield , and Breedon 's connection with the monasteries of Bermondsey and Woking in Surrey , raises the intriguing possibility that Frithuwald was a Middle Angle intruded into Surrey by Wulfhere or at the very least that Frithuwald represented a ruling family in Surrey which had strong Middle Anglian connections . |
| 2 | Nearby , Quickstep , a pleasant VS 4b , lacks the stature of its more imposing neighbours but has the rock and the moves to prove more than a match for many a celebrated limestone VS . |
| 3 | In the mid-1970s Cramlington looked to be succeeding in its industrial and environmental modernization , which simultaneously resolved the ‘ post coal ’ problems of South East Northumberland and provided a pleasant over spill mechanism for reducing residential densities in the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 4 | It was a catch-all for every kind of opinion which was literally in any way remarkable . ’ |
| 5 | When the Dada brochure , Cabaret Voltaire , was published in June 1916 it was ‘ a catch-all for the most diverse directions in art which at that time seemed to us to constitute ‘ Dada ’ . ’ |
| 6 | A medium-sized to large eagle , easily confused with slightly smaller Lesser Spotted Eagle and dark phase of same-sized Tawny Eagle . |
| 7 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |
| 8 | Clockwise from left : Linda Fraser with Jane Brown , who is a nutritional at the National Dairy Council and Diane White of Zanussi ; a selection of fine English and Welsh cheeses ; delicious spinach and turkey roulade and a Zanussi cooker . |
| 9 | So the very thing that was supposed to wake them up , the noise of the alarm bell , was turned in the dream into a wishful of now I can go on sleeping , okay there 's a bell , but it 's Sunday morning , you know , the bells are ringing , the church bells are ringing , I can go on sleeping , so they went on sleeping and they were late for the exam . |
| 10 | Even Craig Cwm Trwsgl in Cwm Pennant , home of the classic Exterminating Angel , has received some attention with Lloyd-Jones and Clive Stephenson adding Blinded By The Light , E4 5b , 6a , to the crag ; this route being a counter-diagonal to Day Of Reckoning . |
| 11 | I 'll go for a tied up cat . |
| 12 | I 'm a tied up cat . |
| 13 | I 've got a tied up cat . |
| 14 | I 've got a tied up cat here . |
| 15 | To leave the area , head for Charing Cross over Hungerford Bridge which is a one-way on the day . |
| 16 | I became a wearer of double-breasted suits , a leaner on bars , a discusser of interest rates . |
| 17 | He really has got a right to be angry . |
| 18 | I said I thought he was a right in fact I 've never seen Sally like it before I said I felt quite really |
| 19 | but we have shaved the bollocks of a bloke in T A , he was a right like Tintin , so we , we pinned him and shaved his bollocks and then put after shave over it . |
| 20 | Glazing is the laying of transparent colour over a dry under layer to create special and/or colour effects . |
| 21 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 22 | It had been built earlier in the century , and by 1794 was the home of Henry Poole 's uncle , Thomas Poole the elder , an ‘ irritable , arbitrary old man ’ whose bad temper owed only a little to his sufferings from the gout . |
| 23 | And though , once she hit her formidable histrionic stride , it was possible to feel that a little of Bette Davis went a long way , her excesses were surely preferable to the homogenised blandness of those mass-produced Hollywood sirens of whom a lot went a very little way indeed . |
| 24 | With a little of the guilty excitement of enjoying a forbidden pleasure , Erika began to listen attentively . |
| 25 | Only a little of it , mind . ’ |
| 26 | He slapped on a little of a new musk aftershave that was supposed to make him irresistible — not too much , he hated obviousness in men . |
| 27 | It is necessary however to acquaint the reader with a little of the previous involvements of Highlander in order to understand the basic idea which underlies its activities , and the evolution of its educational methods . |
| 28 | And bringing up the end of the procession was a tribe of people whom she recognised at once as those who , like herself and Claud , had always had a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right . |
| 29 | You need only a little of your anti cellulite massage oil — about a teaspoonful for each leg . |
| 30 | Bear in mind however , that a little of the sun 's powerful energy is good , but too much can result in premature ageing — or even skin cancer . |