Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |
| 2 | A writer in an edition of the Manchester City News of 1908 recorded that such a vast hive of industry could overpower even a worldly-wise observer : |
| 3 | But no amount of determination could wipe away a strong feeling of apprehension . |
| 4 | As it rose Edward said thoughtfully , ‘ One gets the impression that this sort of place must cost rather a lot of money . ’ |
| 5 | A piece of handicraft may cost just a few pence in our terms , so where is the virtue in knocking it down any further ? ’ |
| 6 | Unless this question is taken seriously then the acquisition of literacy can become simply a more subtle means of social control and cultural denial . |
| 7 | ‘ They say , ’ Eloise went on , ‘ that the value of the Russian works of art could make quite a difference to the total outcome , after taxes . |
| 8 | While , for the reasons just explored , raising the standard of care may have only a limited impact on the courts ' willingness to categorise a decision as negligent rather than as a mere ‘ error of judgment ’ , it may still nevertheless lead to the courts playing a greater role as monitors of business efficiency . |
| 9 | It 's hoped the building and ten acres of land could fetch over a million pounds so the creditors can be paid off . |
| 10 | It 's hoped the building and ten acres of land could fetch over a million pounds so the creditors can be paid off . |
| 11 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 12 | When we recalculated the activity of Ca 2 + at the same pH ( pH 7.7 ) using the formula for changes in PCO 2 , however , the difference between the two groups was still apparent , indicating that the difference in pH may have only a minor influence on the observed difference in the Ca 2 + activity when the pH changes are caused by variations in pCO 2 ( recalculating the actual activity in gall bladder bile from patients with gall stone disease and controls to a pH 7.7 gives an activity of 0.407 and 0.315 mmol/kg , respectively ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 13 | If corporations merely promoted or recruited new personnel to replace the faint-hearted or imprisoned , then frightening and removing executives to prison may have only a minimal impact on corporate crime . |