Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity . |
| 2 | But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’ |
| 3 | Therefore , I would see from a public point of view a substantial expenditure on this subject and I do n't think necessarily a level cuts from county planners . |
| 4 | Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment . |
| 5 | In this new lab of his he can knock together a human being out of the unlikeliest odds and ends . |
| 6 | should think so an all |
| 7 | In the South Midlands and a few other areas where farm labourers could earn only a pittance crafts that employed mothers and daughters provided welcome extra income . |
| 8 | From this month on , junkies need make only a telephone call to exchange their used , possibly-AIDS bearing , needles for new clean ones , delivered free of charge . |
| 9 | But it will make only a marginal difference to the stagnant housing market . |
| 10 | But specialist services can make only a fairly modest contribution to an overall plan for services in a multiracial society unless mainstream services are also radically overhauled in those areas with substantial ethnic populations . |
| 11 | I know that I shall make only a small start before Christmas , so perhaps I can take the opportunity afforded by this Newsletter to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a good New Year . |
| 12 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 13 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 14 | Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power . |
| 15 | Schemes for the unemployed , such as community work , might be helpful for those involved but would cover only a fraction of the three million people out of work , he said . |
| 16 | You know like , if I 'm really thirsty , I could just gulp down a glass of water or a glass of orange , just like that , but with fizzy drinks , I do n't know , I ca n't swallow them very easily , just sort of er , |
| 17 | It must remain entirely a matter for the discretion of the prosecuting authorities as to whether they are in a position to and are prepared to give an assurance . |
| 18 | ACTORS will abseil down a quarry as part of an unusual open-air performance of Shakespeare 's Macbeth this summer . |
| 19 | The change of context can influence only an excitatory association and thus the result of Fig. 4.6 , a loss of the CR , can be expected . |
| 20 | ‘ Could n't I stay down a bit longer , please ? ’ |
| 21 | Their frustration that they would always remain only a mummy could be challenged . |
| 22 | The regulations will sometimes affect only a manufacturer ( e.g. where they govern design or composition ) . |
| 23 | The sand grains themselves are confined to a layer very near to the surface and thus their erosive effect is very limited in vertical extent , while surface creep can obviously affect only an extremely limited vertical range . |
| 24 | Organizations can absorb only a small number of people with these work goals . |
| 25 | Planes of soap solution have the property that only three can intersect along an edge at an angle between them of 120° . |
| 26 | The defence could always allege only a constructive possession and that there was no actual possession in the absence of a witness stating positive actual possession . |
| 27 | Eventually they become quite large , reaching six inches or more , so you will need rather a large tank for them . |
| 28 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 29 | A successful tour is the priority — the icing on the cake would come if wife , Wendy , could hang on a week or so for the birth of their second child due a month before the end of the tour . ‘ |
| 30 | Do you , do you wish to , hang on a minute Hughie . |