Example sentences of "[pron] and [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being , a soul , an inner mind , and inner life , an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities , more plastic , more powerful , more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind , life or body ; especially , it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces , movements , objects of the cosmos , a direct feeling and opening to them , a direct action of them and even a widening of itself beyond the limit of the personal mind , the personal life , the body , so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of out too narrow mental , vital , physical existence . |
| 2 | It is great to be around friends who have never had a weight problem and find that I have a lot more energy than them and certainly a lot more breath ! |
| 3 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds conservation officer for Lothian and Borders , Peter Gordon , said : ‘ The wanton killing of this beautiful bird is sickening in itself and also a setback to the peregrine 's attempts to recolonise this part of Scotland . ’ |
| 4 | Leadership involves a concern for the task itself and also a concern for people . |
| 5 | ‘ Camblet ’ , a word as old as Marco polo , or even springing from earlier Arabic associations , connects into ‘ Camelot ’ , fine cloth , finer than camelhair with which it became commonly associated , finer than wool , as fine as silk itself and perhaps a combination of camel and wool and silk . |
| 6 | We got the words up there and timed it right and everything and then a rehearsal was done . |
| 7 | Captain Freddie 's position in Punta Arenas was an unusual one and largely a result of the Falklands war . |
| 8 | In order to keep pace with growing demand for services , by the end of the 60's hardware has been upgraded to include first one and then a second ICL 1900 series processor . |
| 9 | The did n't reserve anybody and quite a lot of their men at forty was taken away to the army . |
| 10 | Wilson saw Henry Barrett in him and even a flash of his Grandfather Barrett . |
| 11 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 12 | When the fins of fossil specimens are carefully dissected , the lobes at the base are found to be supported by one stout bone close to the body , two bones joined to it and finally a group of small bones — the pattern that is found in the limbs of all land vertebrates . |
| 13 | Only someone like her would be able to receive it and only a figure like that could understand the pain of it and yet also discern , beneath the scum of the surface , the beauties and longings which eddied in a clearer or cleaner current within him . |
| 14 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 15 | and then that was it and then a bit later on , that was all they said about me haircut and then during the break somebody else said , there 's something else gone as well and they could n't make out what it what done mine in , my musical director he come , he says you know what will look nice now with that haircut do n't you ? |
| 16 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 17 | The performance of a skill is dependent on practising it and so a pupil 's success will be crucially dependent on how recently it has been practised . |
| 18 | yeah , to see if that car 's been sold , stolen or whatever and yet a solicitor come he said your solicitor will be able to pick up the phone , take you through the right channels , see if he 's sold that car , he has n't sold the car , who 's he sold it |
| 19 | The national companies such as Mexico and Venezuela are still re-organizing themselves and obviously a lot of time , effort and nervous energy is being spent by people on figuring out what to do in the C I S , where there are obviously great opportunities , but great risks as well . |
| 20 | The majority of present-day carers are married , although many in this bracket are living alone and supporting themselves and possibly a family too . |
| 21 | Microprocessors for real-time control applications ( e.g. Motorola 6800 , Intel 8080 ) have instruction cycle times of 1 — 2 us and therefore a software.based closed.loop control would be limited to 25–50 instructions per motor step at high speeds , which would restrict control to simple functions , such as step timing , step counting and phase sequencing . |
| 22 | We had some more Marshalls that some friends lent us and maybe a Roland JC120 — I do n't know whether those ever made it to the final edit , though . ’ |
| 23 | But our own food supply is being decimated around us and hardly a hand is being raised . |