Example sentences of "with [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final chapter is no more than a scrappy addition with rather a lot of photographs of by now familiar faces from November 1989 . |
| 2 | Only instruments with rather a metallic sound recorded well : the solo banjo , the brass band , and percussion instruments such as bells and xylophones . |
| 3 | As a result , farmers and foresters , custodians of the countryside , have got away with rather a lot . |
| 4 | While I was speaking , Miss J. looked out of the window in a sarcastic manner and when I had finished she said ‘ thank you ’ very politely but with rather a sneering look . |
| 5 | Now , you did once tell me , very very recently in fact , that you were the the father of this Council s with rather a contradiction in fact was that because I 've seen you trotting around the corridors of this er this Council and it you 're more like the baby of the Council than er than the father , but I I do bow to your superior knowledge of Councilling . |
| 6 | In the same vein of concentrated analysis ( and again , with rather an insufficiency of music examples ) Oliver Neighbour considers the authorship of certain anonymous keyboard pieces , most particularly a transcription of Byrd 's ‘ O quam gloriosum est regnum ’ Its procedures demonstrate the activity of a master hand ( not inconceivably Byrd 's own ) even if only to satisfy himself that the exercise was n't worth the candle . |
| 7 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 8 | Such programs take a comprehensive analysis ( more than twenty elements ) on each sample in turn , and compare it with perhaps a hundred to two hundred other samples to try to find a close ‘ match ’ . |
| 9 | The more rounded body , still distinctly Shogun with perhaps a more Americanised flavour , has increased dimensions in all but height , which is slightly lower , like the bonnet . |
| 10 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 11 | A typical training programme usually takes the form of a series of workshops , sometimes in a residential setting , lasting around three days with perhaps a follow-up day a few months later . |
| 12 | Every man 's hand will be against him and gassing , snaring and poisoning will be the order of the day , with perhaps a bounty on his brush and he will be at the mercy of every council official , cowboy and yobbo in the country . |
| 13 | It is not known whether the original breeding arose from mutation or selection , or , some say , by crossbreeding with perhaps a French breed or the Devon . |
| 14 | Typically a client will seek the help of a bureau when debt problems have become unmanageable for them , and the stress of trying to cope with perhaps a dozen competing creditors plus court summonses is threatening home life , health , housing and possibly employment . |
| 15 | Next , specific action may be agreed upon that is realistic and measurable with perhaps a contingency plan lined up too . |
| 16 | Sammy , at times rather naive , wanted to remain with us , and walk me home after I parted from Peggy with perhaps a ‘ good-night ’ kiss . |
| 17 | These can run all year round ( with perhaps a break in July/August ) . |
| 18 | I mean what they 're considering at the moment is making Trumpton into a live-section , full-blown Broadway show , with perhaps a major star playing the train driver . |
| 19 | On the subject of pellet size , it is better to err on the small size anyway , so that your younger Koi can get their mouths round the food ; or feed a mixture of small and large grade pellets , with perhaps a handful of stick food as a treat . |
| 20 | ‘ A trusted formula for me is a 57 or a Beyer 201 , with perhaps a Neumann U87 in the room — but definitely not too close to the cab . |
| 21 | The top players might be exposed to the ruthless rigours of international rugby four times a season , with perhaps a fortnight between games . |
| 22 | This meant that Wilson would have to accept from the re-negotiation the same conditions as Heath had accepted , with perhaps a few minor , cosmetic modifications , or else withdraw the United Kingdom out of the EEC . |
| 23 | My final stock will include shoals of all or some of the following — Zebra Danios , White Cloud Mountain Minnows , Black Widow Tetras , Red Eye Tetras , American Flagfish , Rosy Barbs , and Aurulius Barbs , with perhaps a bottom-lurking pair of Plecs or Callychthids . |
| 24 | Autumn has the benefit of flaming natural colours , but an outing on a sharp winter 's day , with perhaps a smattering of snow is perfect . |
| 25 | But animals , to varying degrees , employ all the senses available to human beings , with perhaps a few extra ones , and often with a far greater range of sensitivity . |
| 26 | Alternatively , as many people do , you may look on retirement as the opportunity for a job switch ( with perhaps a reduction in hours ) or the chance you have always wanted of setting up on your own . |
| 27 | If you can find a stake that long at the garden centre , it will probably be painted green , with perhaps a black painted end for the ground — do n't be deceived . |
| 28 | On the evidence of postcrania , Sivapithecus was similar to other Miocene apes in being an arboreal quadruped with perhaps a terrestrial component as well . |
| 29 | The menu gastronomique at the Caneton is generous and good value for 1800 francs , but a trifle fussy and rich , and a better choice for my taste is the plat du jour , with perhaps a duck liver pâté , or local charcuterie , to start with , which is what you see the inhabitants eating . |
| 30 | And Alice saw a landscape that had been flattened , was bare and bleak , with perhaps a little wan ash blowing over it . |