Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Turn right where you see a waymark arrow and bear left crossing the stile around 150yds further on .
2 And if you 're working on a spreadsheet , you may be working on a spreadsheet during the day , start in the morning , you 're working several hours , you may find yourself running low of memory , then the memory light comes on or you get a memory full up message at some stage , and you think oh that 's not fair , because I have n't made the spreadsheet any bigger .
3 Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson .
4 A party brought in or who has a notice served under these procedures may make an offer of contribution and file a copy with the court .
5 It matters to me greatly that we have a reputation for taking these big issues and dealing with them with independence and rigour .
6 ’ . Again Douglas ( 1966 : 138 ) has suggested there is a liaison which exists between the physical body and its use as an expression of the social , so that one becomes a paradigm for the other : ‘ the [ human ] body is a model which can stand for any bounded system …
7 The latter is meant for weaving and , if knitted , will make the garment twist so that one knits a parallelogram instead of a square .
8 It is possible that there may be for instance some appalling typographical gremlin er has crept in to something so that something makes a nonsense .
9 parish council meeting early so that we get a committee meeting .
10 But break things down we must so that we get a sense of scale .
11 So that we hold a window open for .
12 There is an urgent need for getting out a newsletter — and finding ways of financing it — so that we have an organ of communication with each other .
13 If the reciprocal roles and activities which occur in a family in the mutual interdependency phase can be sorted out , it enhances the status and well-being of each side , so that we see a grandmother who mends while her daughter does the washing , an old person baby-sits while the young neighbour does shopping .
14 This will demand continuous study of problems and assessment of trends so that we create a future in harmony with the needs and aspirations of future generations .
15 Pound the garlic , coriander seeds and black pepper in a mortar so that they form a paste .
16 The needle and sample are chosen so that they form a thermocouple : a device that produces a voltage if the point at which the two materials meet is hotter than its surroundings .
17 Then , with delicate movements of his webbed hind feet , toes distended so that they form a fan , he gathers up the eggs and gently spreads them over the female 's back .
18 The passages were constructed so that they contained a target clause which in one version of a passage formed a sentence on its own and in another version was part of a longer sentence .
19 ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’
20 The function which modern philosophy seized upon as expressing the vital essence of Mind was that of bringing things together so that they have a bearing upon one another .
21 After describing the first three , involving speech , reading and writing , the fourth aim was described as being : ‘ to teach pupils about language , so that they achieve a working knowledge of its structure and of the variety of ways in which meaning is made , so that they have a vocabulary for discussing it , so that they can use it with greater awareness , and because it is interesting . ’
22 so that they have a sense of ownership of the decisions that they will have to implement .
23 1 Pass round all the stories so that everyone has a chance to read them all .
24 A sense of adventure remained with Sara for the next few days , a sense of adventure tempered with trepidation , so that she had a sensation of flying high .
25 Then he actually made a paper aeroplane so that she had an example in front of her that she can look at to see what she is aiming for .
26 He lay down on her and penetrated her again so that she gave a cry of relief .
27 The more determinedly she hunts for confirmatory details the more the sources and scale of her information multiply , so that she reaches a stage of nervous exhaustion from sheer overload .
28 Widmark had recently joined John Ford 's repertory company and so Wayne , who was producing and directing as well as starring as Davy Crockett , was delighted when Widmark accepted the role of Jim Dowie — so much so that he took an ad in the Hollywood Reporter reading ‘ Welcome aboard , Dick . ’
29 He is likely to be very bright and to find learning easy but in many cases he will be coached and encouraged by a parent ( usually the father ) in that one direction so that he becomes a prodigy or a ‘ genius ’ at mathematics .
30 Each of these was then further subdivided so that he had a total of thirty-eight — each group corresponding to one of the thirty-eight remedies which he subsequently discovered .
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