Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid I know rather a lot of people who wanted to kill Mr Phipps . ’ |
| 2 | The evening before last I watched your father proceeding very slowly towards the dining room with his tray , and I am afraid I observed clearly a large drop on the end of his nose dangling over the soup bowls . |
| 3 | This one meant either a crawl on my belly beneath a boulder , hoping to be able to escape out of the hole on the other side , or a wide sloping ledge on the right . |
| 4 | Like all his most important decisions , this one had both a long and a short history . |
| 5 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
| 6 | At times one does not know what to think : Balin goes off to Moria and disaster after ‘ a shadow of disquiet ’ fell upon the dwarves , and when Glóin says this it appears only a metaphor for mundane discontent . |
| 7 | The first season I fished it I caught a solitary barbel , during the second I caught about a dozen and in the third well over fifty . |
| 8 | It became a favourite book of the Evangelicals , whose influence was rising in the Church of England ; by the 1840s there seemed hardly a Christian nursery in England and Scotland , including that of the Queen , without a copy . |
| 9 | When the last de Burgh Earl of Ulster died in 1333 he left only a daughter , Elizabeth Countess of Ulster in her own right , whom the king married to his second son , Lionel of Antwerp , created Duke of Clarence in 1362 . |
| 10 | In 1963 he called together a representative meeting to discuss plans to move forward from the Curriculum Steering Group and create a new and ( of course ) co-operative body which would assume responsibility for the national examination system , for giving advice on the school curriculum , and for relating the two . |
| 11 | Now , we do n't know how long the interview went on , it 's quite likely we have only a snippet of the conversation . |
| 12 | Hartlepool chairman Garry Gibson said : ‘ I 'm glad he cost only a train fare and not a plane fare . |
| 13 | And that that one holds quite a lot |
| 14 | A few things remained in the bureau drawer ; the odds and ends that accumulate in drawers : an engagement diary for 1981 which had only a few entries ; an old wallet , empty except for an out-of-date RAC membership card . |
| 15 | And remember , make sure you take home a copy for the young environmentalists in your family . |
| 16 | I even made sure we got there an hour early in order to take everything in . |
| 17 | In 1990/91 we carried forward a substantial reserve which allowed us to meet greater than expected demands . |
| 18 | At the time he did n't make any comment , though I 'm sure he thought quite a lot ! |
| 19 | Out of that 4,000 I saw maybe a dozen or so women . |
| 20 | Between the forms which accommodate features diagnostic of an individual workshop and those which show only a structural similarity to other mosaics in the region , a picture of the developments of patterns in the wider context of south-western England emerges . |
| 21 | The best questions to ask in a survey are those which require only a single word/phrase or a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ answer . |
| 22 | The first structures to be considered must be the defences themselves , especially those which protected only an essential core , even though it may extend beyond the government installations . |
| 23 | Sjahrir and his colleague Amir Sjarifuddin were designated formateurs ; in Dutch constitutional terms , those who put together a new government . |
| 24 | And you were then told that he was the great propagandist of those who went around a dozen years or so later breaking down these storeyed windows , richly dykes , because it was of course profane and idolatrous to have that dim religious light in your churches . |
| 25 | This is due to the fact that if there is no insider dealing ‘ those who transact only a few moments apart may get very different prices and will view the market as performing unfairly ’ . |
| 26 | In addition , wider family loyalties are intense , extending even to those who share only a very remote common ancestor . |
| 27 | A deep black dado below the white walls surrounds the room in order to provide an enhanced sense of perspective to those who see only a blur and have to find their way using very little visual data . |
| 28 | As you read you will probably be aware of a character 's potential as a role for the actor — particularly with those who have already an established place in theatrical tradition ( Dickens is full of such characters ) . |
| 29 | Voters with above the minimum of education are more likely than those who have only a minimum of education to vote Conservative . |
| 30 | On the other hand , there are those who have only an imperfect formal competence in a language but who by a combination of guesswork and intuition can somehow make contact with the aesthetic qualities of a foreign poem . |