Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I think that in many ways erm I understand what two men are saying , er to of the in as an extremist is things to a very large extent still you never know . |
| 2 | If on the other hand the video is to be a record of a once in a lifetime trip , you are more likely to accept the need to go fully equipped and ready for all eventualities . |
| 3 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 4 | On the London stage , the great roles will be plucked like plums , in the Welsh valleys his fame will swell like the fortissimo of a chapel organ and his acts of generosity , recklessness , coarseness and excellent manners tossed on to the fiery legend like dry logs . |
| 5 | But the moment she closed her eyes , the severed hand flashed onto her eyelids like a still from a Hammer film and she moaned and twisted about . |
| 6 | In contrast , the photograph the artist took of herself is more like a still from a film where paradoxically the subject appears to be caught off-guard , indeed caught in the act . |
| 7 | Then , like a still from a Leni Riefenstahl documentary , Sibylle herself , the only dark-haired girl in a group of Aryan blondes , joyfully doing their ‘ work duty ’ in the middle of the Austrian countryside . |
| 8 | But it 's sort of thick and chewy it 's not , you know it 's not flaky like fish , it 's like a almost like a meat . |
| 9 | On the other hand , for a little under a third of respondents the courses were highly successful , capturing their interest and provoking major changes in their thinking and classroom practice . |
| 10 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
| 11 | It 's very unusual for a even in a , a suburban er |
| 12 | Ed , — In March , I went to New Zealand for a once in a life-time holiday with my family . |
| 13 | Just as a just as a sales pitch for that . |
| 14 | let me ask you one final question and its a cheeky one and er , I want to know whether you drink and drive , I 'm not going to , we have n't got any time for debate , I 'm just interested to know would you say that you drink and drive ? , this is not policy any more , button one for yes , button two for no , your told it as a simply for a , a kind of statistical er oh , er some of you are being rather coy and not voting |
| 15 | The State authorities did not need much convincing ; with the world believing that Shangri-La was at hand courtesy of Utah , State politicians seized on this as a once in a lifetime opportunity to revitalise Utah 's economy . |
| 16 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 17 | Like Mr Evans 's eyes , Carrie thought , but apart from her eyes she did n't look in the least like a shopkeeper 's sister . |
| 18 | A ghost-fleet sails by , but not in the least like a fleet of phantoms ; for on such an evening I feel its presence homely and vivacious all around me ; thronging those waters still with colour . |
| 19 | Joe was taken in the back of a police van to the Divisional Headquarters on Vine Street . |
| 20 | For him , it resided in the philosophy of history he derived , although in an amended form , from Hegel , and which sees history as a dialectical process ; that is , one of perpetual conflict between polarised opposites leading as by a law of nature from a less to a more perfect condition — in short , a trial : thesis , antithesis and synthesis . |
| 21 | He managed to complete the last lap with a flourish in a little under a minute , opening up a 10-metre lead down the back straight . |
| 22 | In a little under a year this insecure High School drop-out had undergone a process of deification by press and public . |
| 23 | Matching the change in the range of qualifications of school-leavers has been a dramatic transformation in the youth labour market in a little over a decade . |
| 24 | The King could legitimately refuse a request to dissolve for the third time in a little over a year . |
| 25 | This establishment of subduction zones results in a change from continental dispersal to continental aggregation which eventually leads to the reassembly of a large land mass . |
| 26 | ‘ We will be pushing to do this locally and writing to the OFT on a regular basis to check on the state of play , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Milwall think they 're on the up after a good midweek win over Forest . |
| 28 | If this is approved , the invitation would well be followed by a firm brief to produce a paper that could , at the BBC approved rate of reading , last anything from seven minutes to a little over an hour , at your discretion . |
| 29 | the they do n't do the same sweets week in week out , I mean the they erm they vary them a on a possibly on a on an eight week basis so it all depends which week you go |
| 30 | This concern could , however , be easily met if it were made clear that fines would only be recommended by the OFT as a matter of course where a company had evidently breached one of the prohibitions . |