Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New brands , of course , will keep coming our way : there are plenty more classic labels from middle-of-nowhere towns out there , each with their own distinctive symbol . |
| 2 | This picture , the third in Faye 's series , focused more fully on her face and the likeness of features and form was very good , but it showed her with such a yearning , wistful expression that everyone who saw it and knew her would think her life had been one long secret sorrow . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there has been one almost universal factor behind the emergence of the extreme right . |
| 4 | The first priority for most unemployed people is obtaining a job : and training or retraining courses are one seemingly obvious route to this end . |
| 5 | Or it could be something pretty trivial like who smokes where in the staffroom , or colleagues ' standards of dress . |
| 6 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 7 | It was the Gulf last year , Yugoslavia this year and there will be something else next year . |
| 8 | There were n't many weighing machines in Baldersdale , but then a friend had to get one because of health problems and I turned out to be something around ten stones . |
| 9 | Most of this housing took the form of Tyneside flats , an unusual type of construction in which what appears to be one reasonably large terrace house of a kind very commonly built in industrial cities in Northern England in the late nineteenth century , is in fact two flats . |
| 10 | Also , if Rough Trade went under , there 'd only be one really big indie distributor left — and one result would be that many less commercial records would never find an outlet . |
| 11 | You will find that there will be one less old person 's home , but that |
| 12 | The longer experience of some other countries , such as France and Sweden , of both early retirement and labour market policies encouraging it , would be one potentially fruitful source of information ( Walker and Laczko 1982:Laczko and Walker 1985 ) . |
| 13 | It would be one more damaging admission of cracks in his programme , and Dr Tariq was a vain man , his vanity complicated certainly by fear . |
| 14 | There will be lots more coloured pages and a brand new section for Rainbow Guides ! |
| 15 | An ancient snobbery perhaps lingers , whispering that good bread , being something only poor people care about , is out of place here . |
| 16 | There 's nothing more soul- destroying ( and I speak as a seasoned dieter here ! ) than those inflexible diet regimes : no meals out , no dinner parties , no treats . |
| 17 | There 's nothing like forward planning . |
| 18 | U unless there 's somebody else wanting serving is n't it . |
| 19 | Now there 's somebody else next door selling off , se se there is a surplus |
| 20 | I gained seven and then , with Mr Broadhurst 's none too gentle prodding , I opted for economics , maths and business studies as A level courses . |
| 21 | All was cleared up later when the hotel manager came to investigate but our sympathies must go to the hapless Security Gorilla , as recent photographic evidence proves that mistaking Bob Dylan for a tramp with salubrious lodgings in Cardboard City is something even hardened celeb watchers like ourselves have done at some point or another . |
| 22 | There is one exceptionally fine scagliola globe . |
| 23 | For the pupils ( to keep to the same example ) , it is one gloriously stimulating hour in which they have the chance to pour out all that they have felt and discovered about The Prelude . |
| 24 | There is one particularly hilarious moment when three people meet in an alley and one tries to sell the other two a cervical smear in a bottle allegedly from the great Madonna herself . |
| 25 | While the bottom-dwelling or burrowing bivalves mostly have a pair of strong muscles to pull the valves together , in the swimming forms the muscles have become modified so that there is one particularly powerful muscle , centrally placed , to produce the powerful clapping movement that propels the animal through the water . |
| 26 | Cantril Farm in Knowsley , 8 miles from Liverpool , is one particularly notorious example . |
| 27 | And there is one particularly prescient episode , where a group of weavers attacks his house under the impression that he has invented a ‘ steam loom ’ that will rob them of their livelihood . |
| 28 | There is one particularly notable exception to the proposition that the laws of war proved inadequate in limiting combat in the Second World War — the 1925 Geneva Protocol . |
| 29 | But there is one enormously important difference between the two . |
| 30 | But there is one relatively new job the caddie has today : working out yardages from tee to green . |