Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They envisage a world where the ‘ boss ’ is extinct , giving way to an ethically-based network of individuals loosely attached to an organisation.Hard to imagine , perhaps . |
| 2 | It 's part of an ingoing programme of meetings where there 's consultation between employee representatives and employer representatives . |
| 3 | This is an undesirable state of affairs so women must once again be taught , persuaded and encouraged to give priority to their families , and in future social policies should be developed , or indeed not developed , with this aim in mind . |
| 4 | It has often been a surprise to discover the presence of an extensive spread of buildings well beyond the enclosure , this lack of awareness has led occasionally to their discovery all too late , whilst they were being ravaged by development . |
| 5 | With an extensive list of papers now published on hepatitis C what have we learnt about managing patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection ? |
| 6 | There is an extensive list of references so that the paper may also serve as an introduction to the literature about these animals . |
| 7 | Mind you not that they 've had an awful lot of success recently but they are , really are a cocky lot . |
| 8 | There 's an awful lot of supposition there , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 9 | Er sometimes I , I 'm , I get a lot , a lot of things on , I have at the moment , an awful lot of things on , so everything is you know getting in a p a tight path and fast , so I deliberately thoroughly enjoy taking my dog and wandering along in the park . |
| 10 | no not really , all that money , I mean in the end is it worth rescuing I say , I know it 's sport and I know what about it , but , it 's an awful lot of money though |
| 11 | It must have done an awful lot of damage everywhere else too . |
| 12 | ( 16 ) I 'm buying an awful lot of books here . |
| 13 | But they must have taken an awful lot of barrels away . |
| 14 | There 's an awful lot of television now , screaming for the public 's attention , and you 've got to be that much smarter at creating ‘ event ’ television , a sense of occasion . |
| 15 | There seemed to be an awful lot of dogs around for her to play with . |
| 16 | That must have been an awful lot of hens then . |
| 17 | I had to go and collect grandma you see to take her to the station , and I did n't have an awful lot of time so I just sort of ran round and collected whatever I got . |
| 18 | Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time |
| 19 | You 're not , you 've not got your councillors coming forward and er you know that , which , which I would like because the , the only way you 'll get your , get anything is by sort of working for it and erm we are very proud you know , I do n't know whether you 've , you must 've seen the book you know erm the , the was brought out the centenary , the eighty-three and er , I mean er , er there 's an awful lot of information there . |
| 20 | There are an awful lot of Luddites out there with computer dyslexia , including Yours Truly . |
| 21 | Well from when you first had the operation and you was frightened keep bumping into you , and it 's , I mean that 's taken an awful lot of confidence away and you still got |
| 22 | It 's an awful lot of trees already there and you 're going to add another four thousand , it 's going to be a big area . |
| 23 | There are an awful lot of opportunities around if you can only sniff them out . |
| 24 | One carried his dark jacket in an odd kind of bundle under one arm . |
| 25 | His words made her feel an odd glow of warmth deep inside her , and her tears dried up . |
| 26 | HMIP pointed out that an enforcement role for such an agency would be an unnecessary duplication of work already carried out in the UK . |
| 27 | Cardinal evidence comes from the halkieriids ( Fig. 4 c ) , which had an articulated armour of sclerites together with prominent anterior and posterior shells . |
| 28 | When Connery was playing the ultimate English officer , James Bond ( an old boy of Fettes where Connery once delivered the milk ) , he could sound raw . |
| 29 | An enterprising firm of potters anywhere in the Province could supply batches of their wares , so crates of vessels arriving at the quartermasters ' stores could have come from any available source . |
| 30 | From Poolewe , a private road may be followed to the isolated croft of Kernsary ( cars may be taken thus far with permission ) , whence a track used by anglers leads up to Fionn Loch ; from it , branches the wilderness route to Dundonnell , entering a vast basin with an exciting array of mountains ahead , Beinn Lair and A' Mhaighdean being prominent . |