Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Further upstream a cache of rubbish had been washed against the bank .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 ) .
5 For several decades , Panama was juridically a protectorate of the United States , and effectively an American colony .
6 Better a culture in which men have one wife and women need not shroud themselves in black , we 'll say .
7 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 .
8 We did get them better a lot of them at any rate .
9 His wife had died suddenly a couple of years back .
10 Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees .
11 Suddenly a wave of fear washed over her mind and she became tinglingly aware , as if she had n't realized it before , what danger they were in .
12 I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits .
13 All that it takes is a little push , some minor inconvenience , a trifling price to pay for faith , some obligation or embarrassment involved in being a Christian , and suddenly a trail of doubts bubbles to the surface : ‘ Maybe after all …
14 The parent becomes more dependent , and with only small increases in the time and amount of care involved , there is suddenly a multiplicity of tasks until one has progressed unawares to the point of full-time caring . ’
15 Suddenly a voice from behind them said silkily , ‘ How nice to see you again , Miss Ferguson . ’
16 Suddenly a posse of television men with lights , handheld cameras and furry sound-amplifiers like caterpillars on sticks arrived in front of Morris with Amaranth Wilikins in tow .
17 As she felt her way forward , suddenly a knight on horseback galloped past her .
18 The image of the planet receded and Tarvaras was suddenly a component of a larger system .
19 Suddenly a part of you you 've taken for granted all your life gives out , or plays you up .
20 Despite much ‘ hype ’ that there was considerable Japanese interest and the Museum suddenly a centre for former Imperial Japanese airframes ( see page 22 ) , the A6M Zeke restoration package failed to attract interest .
21 A damp warm world inhabited by insects and turtles was suddenly a disguise for horrible terrors with huge teeth .
22 Suddenly a flock of all-dark shearwaters appeared , only the underwing showing a pale smudge .
23 Gosh , suddenly a lot of traffic .
24 As he scanned the laden shelves to left and right , there was suddenly a sound like a hundred ball-bearings being dropped from a height on to the bare floorboards .
25 Suddenly a hail of earth , stones , metal fragments , pieces of exhaust pipe and car door came down on us in a dust-covered mass .
26 Corbett nodded and was going to pursue the matter further when suddenly a commotion at the far end of the table drew all eyes and silenced the clamour in the hall .
27 He was suddenly a doctor before all else , remembering other women he had seen , and tried to examine , victims of a brutal assault , who had been unable to bear a man near them , let alone a man attempting to make love to them , and a score of odd things about her behaviour , hardly noticed at the time , fell into place .
28 ‘ Whispering ’ Ted Lowe was suddenly a celebrity with murmured thoughts about the difficulty of ‘ a long pink against the nap into the top pocket ’ .
29 It does n't say that solitude much a state of freedom as of imprisonment .
30 The 433/L is very much a machine for ‘ 90 ‘ s .
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