Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footballers are seen simultaneously as representatives of a club and its traditions , of a community and its collective sensibility and most importantly of a sport beloved by young and impressionable people . |
| 2 | Sir I will take this on board , but I think it comes rather badly from an authority in fact both authorities which have so shown so many confusing changes of mind about this area in the whole process since the first plan was issued , that the er details of the consideration by one of the constituent bodies of this erm objection er should be er examined er in such detail . |
| 3 | This view has been expressed most effectively in an article by Fleay and Sanders . |
| 4 | The buildings were transformed rather successfully into a gallery for Bohemian art by František Cubr and Josef Pilar , in the 1960s . |
| 5 | The 44-year-old star watched little Christina battle for life thankfully successfully after an operation for a hole in her heart . |
| 6 | He had never been able to lose himself in a crowd , or dash off somewhere suddenly on a whim . |
| 7 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 8 | when the business of the partnership can be carried on only at a loss ; |
| 9 | He may be mistaken in his choice of means , but it is against nature that he should wish harm to his kingdom ’ A unified and consistent policy , it was often contended , could be carried on only by a monarch , not by a group of ministers each of whom had his own axe to grind ( this was a favourite argument of Frederick II in particular ) . |
| 10 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 11 | Rose walked on thoughtfully for a bit , then she turned to Hilary and said : ‘ You went to see your mother last week , did n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | In terms of the use of multimedia generally , the visual impact of HDTV may heighten interest in using multimedia across a broad range of applications , most obviously as a component of HDTV-based POS and POI terminals . |
| 13 | The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade . |
| 14 | Inspector Ghote , I once remarked a little pretentiously to an interviewer , c'est moi . |
| 15 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 16 | Which brings us on nicely to a discussion of pyroclastic rocks themselves . |
| 17 | Athenagoras , the Syracusan demagogue , is made by Thucydides ( vi.38 ) to say that Syracuse ‘ is only rarely in a state of internal peace ’ . |
| 18 | Therefore if during this first shopping trip of your preparation phase you want to pop in somewhere for a drink and a snack ( assuming that this is fairly usual for you ) , go ahead and do it . |
| 19 | At any rate , their bishoprics could not equal the territorial wealth , and so presumably to an extent the political influence , of some of their southern brethren . |
| 20 | forty miles an hour in a forty zone and he just got , right up my arse , he was obviously somewhere in a hurry somewhere in a hurry , you know ? |
| 21 | On the fourth day , England hardly surprisingly , bowled extremely slowly in an effort to delay the declaration . |
| 22 | ‘ You can do that all right with a stew , ’ said Penelope . |
| 23 | Polo was all right as a hobby , but for a living , as Angel 's father , who prided himself on his English had pointed out , it was distinctly ‘ Non-U ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been all right as a weed for years . |
| 25 | You 're you 're all right for a hair brush then are you ? |
| 26 | It 's all right for a man ; men are used to smutty books and vulgar jokes — women do n't go for things like that . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd also got an injunction against him because he became violent , and that was all right for a bit . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm all right for a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 29 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |
| 30 | The Stage Manager would give him the line , he 'd be all right for a couple more sentences , then , ‘ Sorry , it 's gone again . ’ |