Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional electron microscopes , which emit beams of electrons and watch them bounce off the surface , can see much smaller details but their pictures usually give only a poor impression of the relief of the surface . |
| 2 | It does make a sort of sense : everyone must be born and die , but how many general directors nowadays last even a respectable fraction of 20 years ? |
| 3 | In brief , then , EC countries currently enjoy only a limited degree of monetary autonomy and this applies only to the very short run . |
| 4 | Climbers usually need only a light pruning , ( a ) , to build up strong main stems and develop lateral side shoots . |
| 5 | It 's followed 's Road most of the way but it 's it went different routes some places just to take away a steep . |
| 6 | The elaborate songs of male birds clearly fit best a manipulatory interpretation . |
| 7 | Young birds also have quite a small black beak during their first winter . |
| 8 | You 've got no more money but twenty pounds so taking away a negative number is the same as adding , yeah ? |
| 9 | Since rainfall controls plant growth , and plants are the base of the food pyramid , deserts typically have only a short period when food is abundant ; it is during this time that the creatures of the desert must complete their breeding cycle . |
| 10 | The patients then received either a single injection of 6 µg/kg pentagastrin ( peptavlon , ICI Pharmaceuticals , UK ) subcutaneously or an intravenous infusion of 0.6 mg/kg/h over one hour . |
| 11 | Individual service departments usually have quite a clear understanding of their own legal responsibilities , but are often not too sure how their work relates to other parts of the local authority empire . |
| 12 | Whether or not political or administrative accountability is the more desirable depends upon one 's view about the relationships that should exist between State and society , but it is more likely that where decisions are made by political appointees there is greater uncertainty , for such decisions then embody both a political and an economic dimension . |
| 13 | Instead of bilateral employer-union agreements there developed belatedly a protective labour law which , by the very functions it fulfilled , was a hindrance to the emergence of collective bargaining ( Maurice and Sellier , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | Having to take children along imposes both a physical and mental burden ; there is the problem of managing children and shopping simultaneously , and the housewife 's attention is distracted by the need to pacify a crying child or by the knowledge that a baby in a pushchair is parked out of sight . |
| 15 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 16 | Suppose the electrons just fill exactly an integral number N of Landau levels . |
| 17 | Beaked whales generally have only a single pair of teeth protruding from their lower jaw , and instead of teeth they use a ribbed palate to get a firm grasp on their prey . |
| 18 | Reasonably complete and reliable economic statistics of any kind became available only slowly even in many of the more developed European states ; and in any case economic issues usually played only a subordinate role in policy-making . |
| 19 | These diversities and shortcomings in feminist approaches to class may explain why feminists often manage only a half-hearted critique of psychology 's class interests . |
| 20 | Homemade pizzas often lack even a vague hint of authenticity . |
| 21 | The surface of the brain is totally insensitive , and operations on the brain in humans commonly involve only a local anaesthetic . |