Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards . |
| 2 | We settled on a classic rock climb from the Etançons valley — the West-South-West Ridge of the Pic Nord des Cavales : a mouthful of a name to be sure and not a route well known outside the area , but Collomb assures of its worth : |
| 3 | Whilst our schools and colleges are offering some of these courses , traditionally the bulk of such courses are to be found in the county Colleges of F.E. They can be of one year duration or provide a route either to higher education or more advanced professional qualifications . |
| 4 | It can be a route away from unemployment or dead-end jobs . ’ |
| 5 | More likely , they followed a route now reduced : like Kipling 's road through the woods , ‘ weather and rain have undone it again and now we shall never know there was once a road through the woods . ’ |
| 6 | Drugs provided the wherewithal for the actual suspension of reality — a route so desperately sought , for instance , by those young men wearing American uniforms in that far-off land of Vietnam . |
| 7 | Eagle 's Nest Direct was the first Very Severe rock climb in the British Isles and a route so serious then that to contemplate leading it at that time of primitive rope technique meant you also contemplated death . |
| 8 | Personal memories : of the larger knots of passengers at reopened Templecombe than at most other stations between Exeter and Salisbury , a route far busier and better served than ten years ago ; but of travelling from Southampton to Newton Abbot via Westbury having dinner with a traveller from London to Crewkerne , the common Westbury-Taunton section way north of both passengers ' direct line being attractive because of the faster pace of HSTs . |
| 9 | The other options were a route roughly following the A19 and one which ran parallel and close to the existing power line , skirting the North York Moors National Park . |
| 10 | So far the company has not registered any enthusiasm for such a payment either . |
| 11 | Arguments about the quality of particular animals in a payment scarcely arose when the payment was in a standardized currency : no one asked , ‘ Well now , which of these dinars do you promise me ? ’ |
| 12 | Attorney-General v. Wilts United Dairies Ltd. ( 1921 ) 37 T.L.R. 884 was not a case concerned with the recovery of a payment unlawfully demanded . |
| 13 | But is it up to them to actually go to D S S and say I want a payment now ? |
| 14 | A payment only qualifies under Gift Aid if it is a ‘ gift ’ . |
| 15 | Now he is poised here in Paris , sipping a champagne so dry it tastes like flint , on the brink of old age . |
| 16 | Ask why John does n't use traditional Fenders and he tells you he does n't want to be limited in how he plays : ‘ Like , an A has to be played there , a G there and so on . |
| 17 | Oh she had a prince here |
| 18 | With those looks and that air about him I sometimes thought that he was a Prince really . |
| 19 | I mean , today we 've been to well we went into Henry and Norman 's and they were having a chat and it 's better if you 're just sitting down like this with a mike just you know |
| 20 | So you would n't see it and it 's running and there 's a mike there . |
| 21 | A late stimulus for the evolution of distinctive mammals was the Pleistocene Ice Age , although a variety also became extinct at this time . |
| 22 | An unusual variety is N. Hal Miller , a vigorous plant of creamy white or N. Virginia a variety also suitable for a larger pond . |
| 23 | I also like ‘ Distinction ’ , a variety over 100 years old with red flowers and a narrow black edge to the bright green leaves . |
| 24 | We 've got quite a variety here have n't we ? |
| 25 | Thus the very distinctiveness of the Creole becomes the point to focus on — and therein lies its symbolic value as a variety maximally opposed to Standard English . |
| 26 | Even in these situations , however , first generation Caribbeans are more likely to use a variety close to the local Standard English of their birthplace than the Creole , while the second generation are much more likely to use London English than a form of Creole . |
| 27 | During the whole of this offensive , many thousands of prisoners were taken ; the 101st established a base well inside Iraq and armour raced on to join them . |
| 28 | The two major volcanoes , Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea , have attained elevations of over 4000m above sea level , but they rise more than 9000 m from the floor of the Pacific Ocean from a base well in excess of 200 km across ( Fig. 5.12 ) . |
| 29 | New the warehousing and distribution system for those odd orders of a base here and a lid there is being introduced in all factories . |
| 30 | That sounds like a base somewhere . |