Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 2 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 3 | However , in a number of cases the variables on the right-hand side of equation ( 6.5 ) account for rather a small proportion of the variance of the left-hand side variable , suggesting that some important influences on have been omitted from the estimating equation . |
| 4 | Having to stop on every other move to bury one hand at a time in the confines of barely warm armpits made for rather a stilted ascent , but it was worth it . |
| 5 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 6 | Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo . |
| 7 | Indeed , in a publishing environment where there may be a need for perhaps a dozen word processors but just one page makeup system this approach has strong financial advantages . |
| 8 | Most printers would be only too pleased to oblige — for perhaps a modest donation to the tea tin . |
| 9 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
| 10 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 11 | He saw no prospect of avoiding for long a head-on collision . |
| 12 | but there is that level and kind of education provided in the other Colleges of Further Education , and likewise it would not affect them either , so I do n't think we 're talking about necessarily a major part of the sixth form provision in the county . |
| 13 | It can serve as only a rudimentary guide to the experimental set-up if the eventual instrument is based on the radiometer . |
| 14 | Only a single company is allowed to operate in each part of the country but the incumbent is given a licence for only a fixed period of time . |
| 15 | Neither case is concerned at all with the position where a child has been stillborn as a result of a third party 's negligence or has , as a result of such negligence , survived birth for only a minimal period . |
| 16 | The Yasa allowed for only a limited selection of penalties under the law . |
| 17 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 18 | This will be the case where , for example , a minister stays in a government department for only a limited period of time . |
| 19 | Fixed-term appointments are offered by the Board only where the job is expected to be of limited duration or there are exceptional management reasons for appointing someone for only a limited period to an ongoing job . |
| 20 | Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time . |
| 21 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 22 | However , the particles in even the most opaque Cytherean clouds account for only a tiny fraction of the atmospheric volume occupied by the cloud , and therefore the cloud particles , as on the Earth , are minor atmospheric components . |
| 23 | Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand . |
| 24 | Joint ventures account for only a small part of Hungary 's company start-up boom . |
| 25 | Although the Orcs and Goblins were beaten they accounted for only a small part of Skarsnik 's horde . |
| 26 | While this represents an important development in Parliament 's powers of scrutiny , non-departmental bodies account for only a small part of the work of these committees which are quite unable to exercise anything like detailed oversight . |
| 27 | It is true that most foreign investment is for the domestic markets of host countries , and that the ‘ export processing ’ industries that are at the centre of the NIDL thesis account for only a small part of TNC foreign investment in the Third World but , as I have argued for the cases of Mexico and China ( Sklair , 1989 , forthcoming ) , the symbolic significance of export oriented development strategies is extremely important in the contemporary global system . |
| 28 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 29 | Firm mobility usually accounts for only a small proportion of employment growth in any area , with most coming from existing or new indigenous firms ( Cross 1981 ; Watts 1981 ) . |
| 30 | As this provision catered for only a small proportion of part-time further education teachers and , with very few exceptions , led to no formal qualification , it in no way constituted an adequate or unified system of training . |