Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically a look at surviving Spitfires , it is an interesting work marred slightly by some incorrect photo captions . |
| 2 | At the time the name seemed just too obviously a snipe at relational database rival Oracle Corp , which began rolling out its delayed Release 7 over the course of 1992 : Sybase 's current release name is 4.9 , and there seemed no logical reason to start calling anything out of the fast-growing system software supplier 's warehouses ‘ System 10 ’ . |
| 3 | But only a hiatus at National Carriers caused by the closure of British Rail 's door-to-door parcels service in 1980 stopped NFC going the way of other privatisations — into the pockets of disinterested individuals and institutions . |
| 4 | Schemes that work in well-ordered German or American suburbs , whose honest burghers would never dream of squeezing their junk into a neighbour 's bin or chucking it over a fence at dead of night , may be less successful in city centres . |
| 5 | A narrow view would be that if contributory negligence was not a defence at common law , then it will not be available under the Act . |
| 6 | ‘ The days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline from The Sun and get him to sign an injunction , ’ Mr Todd said . |
| 7 | THE days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline in The Sun , and get him to sign an injunction . |
| 8 | Even in the mid-afternoon there were still copies of most of the morning 's newspapers , and Carson picked up a couple at random . |
| 9 | Smokers and ex-smokers make up a subgroup at increased risk for development of adenocarcinoma in Barrett 's oesophagus ; those patients with specialised type metaplasia and who may benefit from surgical intervention warrant regular endoscopy and biopsy whereas non-smokers are at low risk . |
| 10 | He put out his hands almost against his will , took up one of the mallets and swung it testingly to get the feel of its balance , picked up a punch at random and applied its point , none too deftly because his hands were tremulous , to a half-defined fold of drapery in the nearest block of stone . |
| 11 | He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random . |
| 12 | I pull out a handful at random … |
| 13 | We all smiled at that , because there was already a young man who was often a visitor at New Place . |
| 14 | He folded back a page at random and read the chapter heading . |
| 15 | Erm can you think of a one metal which is n't a solid at normal temperatures ? |
| 16 | Now all we have is the island , and that 's pretty small , and hardly even an island at low tide . |
| 17 | One was David Robins , then a student at nearby University College , from a leftist Jewish London background . |
| 18 | Officials expect them to show that there is indeed an obstacle at middle-management level . |
| 19 | Only within the Parliamentary Labour Party was there an attempt at collective discipline and that was so loose that the Independent Labour Party was to maintain its right to direct its own members within the PLP as late as 1931 . |
| 20 | He threw his dressing gown casually on the chair and — with never a glance at Arty — jumped between the sheets , picked up the newspaper from the floor beside the bed , opened it out and peered over the top , his ears tuned to the conversation . |