Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A verb form , especially a finite of to be , that connects a subject and the complement or the nominal part of the predicate : His brother was a sailor . |
| 2 | As Horton Davies , who has explored this subject deeply , wrote : ‘ More worshipful churches proved incentives to , if not a deeper , yet a better ordered and more dignified worship among congregations that had previously regarded worship as merely a preliminary to preaching . ’ |
| 3 | In a Labour Monthly article , " The United Front and Revolutionary Unity " , Palme Dutt developed the theme that the United Front created on 17 March 1933 was merely a preliminary to the creation of a new Left party . " |
| 4 | Then again , perhaps a scaled down 5-series would have been too predictable . |
| 5 | I 'd like us to ask another question this week , it 's slightly different , perhaps a strange on the surface and it 's how much faith does God have in you ? |
| 6 | So a chopped off finger 's not good enough . |
| 7 | Victor sucks in a Hooverful of cigar smoke , then strains it out through tight lips . |
| 8 | Alternatives to this usually provide only a palliative for the rural transport problem . |
| 9 | But it was only a temporary in there , like the floor and everything just a , a brown carpet because of Honey |
| 10 | Ruth heard Gran talking to her in the office — which was only a partitioned off slice of the kitchen , so Ruth could hear every word as she stacked the dishwasher . |
| 11 | So much for being only a blown up light-heavy ! |
| 12 | Nevertheless a fair of sorts had taken place . |
| 13 | no , no , it was just a bound to be a cos you see , let me explain something to you until you gave evidence today , certainly I did n't and maybe others did n't realize in this court room that what were looking at is that one edition of the brochure which may of had several editions , do you understand ? |
| 14 | But the three-minute song is just a left-over from when that was all you could fit on to one side of a 78 record . |
| 15 | For maybe just a momentary at this moment Mr chairman at this time of day , it 's rather like the carpet salesman saying to the lady , which one do you want , red , blue or green , not whether you want one or not . |
| 16 | I 'll believe he loved me just a little at least , thought Fenella , sitting quite still on her horse and looking about her . |
| 17 | Just a supplementary on that . |
| 18 | Leek and potato soup ( £1.55 ) came with excellent bread but would have been less bland with a few spices thrown around ; conversely a fresh off the bone chicken curry ( £3.50 ) could have been enhanced by some fruit . |
| 19 | Poles — originally upright poles which restricted access , not A shaped for ease of entry . |
| 20 | In fact , he 's not a chappy at all , he 's a rather aggrieved demon ! |
| 21 | Oh so it 's not a straightforward round the outside , and up the middle ? |
| 22 | An Anglo-Catholic priest helped me accept the desert experiences of prayer — no-one had ever told me , after an experience of personal renewal , to expect the stripping and refining that was not a falling from grace but a growth in it . |
| 23 | Members believe that anyone outside their particular way of looking at things is not a Christian at all — and this applies to groups such as Quakers . |
| 24 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 25 | What is not a secret at all are the wages , the things to be bought , the amount that can be saved , the variety of cars , the ways women dress , what there is to eat and drink , the hours worked , the arguments won … |
| 26 | Not a falling-away from faith , but a falling-away from faith in Christianity . |
| 27 | Yellow Pages everybody gets a free entry so there 's already a warm up situation . |
| 28 | Gundobad had contemplated conversion to catholicism , and Sigismund was already a catholic by 515 , when he founded one of the most prestigious of early medieval monasteries , that of St Maurice at Agaune . |
| 29 | Despite this territorial expansion Theodoric was still technically a federate of the Roman Empire , working in the service first of Severus and then of Anthemius . |
| 30 | Which MP was once a farmhand in The Archers ? |