Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The County defender needlessly gave away a corner with a wild back pass to Cherry and Lineker rose to head home Gray 's place kick through a crowd of players . |
| 2 | The whole episode allegedly lasted about an hour and a half . |
| 3 | The whole episode allegedly lasted about an hour and a half . |
| 4 | This capability never excludes either a sign or a speech coding and with increasing attention results are pointing to a great division in the effects , with deaf people showing greater use of sign-based coding when responses are made in sign . |
| 5 | Edouard looked up in surprise , and the boy eagerly drew forward a chair . |
| 6 | This mild stimulus normally produces only a weak withdrawal ; following conditioning a strong withdrawal is produced by the weak stimulus to the siphon as well . |
| 7 | The emphasis , in other words , is upon good management rather than policy , an approach influenced partly by the need to minimize opposition from policy-conscious Whitehall departments , and partly because in the private sector-from which the managerial approach has largely been adopted — decision-making usually has only a limited policy content . |
| 8 | In fact , Boy quickly became quite a regular at The Bar . |
| 9 | The council also set aside an initial budget of£250,000 to employ a legal team and prepare a case for the public inquiry . |
| 10 | This bomber and its cargo probably weighs over a hundred tons . |
| 11 | However , Glashow himself remarked that the Nobel committee really took rather a gamble , because we do not yet have particle accelerators of high enough energy to test the theory in the regime where unification between the electromagnetic forces , carried by the photon , and the weak forces , carried by the W + , W - , and Z , really occurs . |
| 12 | We do not know whose cottage door is " ours ' , but the pronoun immediately suggests both a shared experience and a familiar discourse . |
| 13 | The Mob immediately moves forward a full normal move towards the nearest visible enemy unit , deducting the usual penalties for terrain . |
| 14 | ‘ The girl fortunately suffered only a very small burn on her forehead , but it could have been an awful lot worse . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Smaointe ’ or ‘ thoughts ’ was inspired by the story of the beach at Margallen , where a great wave once swept away a small church and all that were in it . |
| 16 | Cos if the steamer only came once a week that would n't have been enough . |
| 17 | Eight years later , the group still has neither a title to the 32 hectares , nor a formal guarantee of its right to occupy : its tenure rests on a letter from the National Agrarian Institute which simply acknowledges its presence . |
| 18 | For the year 1982–3 , the Stephen Jones working group also put together a long-term system for the allocation of the pool based on unit costing and the 1982–3 allocation of £539 million was the first one to be determined by it . |
| 19 | However so far , all attempts to bottle this ‘ smell ’ satisfactorily have failed , and how to use this aspect of sexual attraction still remains largely a mystery . |
| 20 | The infamous Berlin Wall now has only a few vestiges remaining . |
| 21 | In the event there remained only a very few clients with a need for care beyond normal services . |
| 22 | No bomb was found after a search of the ground with tracker dogs and when the game eventually started over a hour late , both teams , level at 1–1 after the first leg went at each other in an explosive start . |
| 23 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 24 | With Unix coming down to the desktop and moving into the commercial arena , Adobe feels their two paths are beginning to come together , even if Unix still represents only a tiny piece of its business . |
| 25 | Caroline had never grown used to it but she had learned to ignore it , even here , in Italy , where admiring a woman openly seemed almost a national pastime . |
| 26 | One assumes that a subsiding island originally possessed merely a fringing reef . |
| 27 | Our offer here gives just a glimpse of the outstanding choice available . |
| 28 | Hayek 's theory therefore offers both a critique of contemporary arrangements and a programme for realizing an alternative vision . |
| 29 | The man long-sufferingly tore apart a paper bag for him to autograph , shoved it onto his hand , and said furiously , ’ Have n't you even got anything to write with ? ’ |
| 30 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |