Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Budget speeches once consisted mainly of a very detailed and technical discussion of taxation and borrowing , they now also contain a review of the progress of the British economy against the world economic background and a description of government economic policies . |
| 2 | Before and after this period , subjects also pointed either at an auditory target or using a non-preferred hand in order to identify the mechanism by which this adaptation occurred . |
| 3 | Mr Yeltsin , meanwhile , asked the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies not to go ahead with a planned impeachment vote . |
| 4 | As this was an art movement which America embraced with unprecedented enthusiasm and unrivalled breadth of vision , and as we specialise so much in American art objects ( we showed at the Modernism Fair in New York last year ) , the theme has provided a vehicle to address the famously discriminating audience of Grosvenor House with objects normally found only in a handful of the most forward looking museums . |
| 5 | I do n't think two youngsters ever get together without a battle . |
| 6 | Julie 's high-achieving life seemed as if it would continue on its upward curve with her two companies both doing well in a time of recession . |
| 7 | Though the possibility of hazard should never be ignored , however remote it may seem , the ethical position in prevention trials often stems mainly from a balance between the extent of benefit ( if any ) , and the cost of the intervention . |
| 8 | ‘ Musicals always do well in a recession because people want escapism , ’ says Patrick O'Connor of the New Grove Dictionary Of Opera . |
| 9 | BELVILLE : I have had the mortification for some weeks past to come home to a very different Pamela than I used to . |
| 10 | Sublime grace and accuracy , a ballet of two blades almost dancing together in an aerial pas de deux was the aesthetic of the duel — for a minute , two minutes , three , till a single quicksilver cheek wound decided the contest . |
| 11 | The sources also reacted favourably to a statement published yesterday by the erstwhile Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to around a third of a new cabinet . |
| 12 | The thatched houses often consisted only of a roof of pandanus or coconut leaves on four poles , with rolled-up slats of interwoven pandanus leaves which could be lowered in case of rain . |
| 13 | Reduced to helpless laughter when the young man a few yards away fell headlong into a gulley , forgetting to look where she was putting her own feet , she trod on something hard — and , to her utter astonishment , found a leprechaun . |
| 14 | They 're trying to revolutionise the way gliding is taught in this country , aiming to teach novices how to fly solo in a week . |
| 15 | Vocals sometimes come across like a throaty Andrew Eldritch and if this was a new Sisters Of Mercy single they really would be worth talking about again and again . |
| 16 | Vocals sometimes come across like a throaty Andrew Eldritch and if this was a new Sisters Of Mercy single they really would be worth talking about again and again . |
| 17 | There , however , the spontaneous currents which reason navigates are not inclinations but those analogizing processes already discussed briefly in an earlier chapter , with particular reference to simulation . |
| 18 | The vehicle and its two occupants now stood silently in a children 's playground . |
| 19 | But the approach itself is never questioned , so the abuses simply resurface later in a new guise . |
| 20 | During World War I , attitudes towards ‘ war babies ’ and their mothers briefly relaxed largely as a result of the efforts of the Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child ( founded in 1917 ) , and greater concern was expressed about the high infant mortality rate amongst illegitimate children . |
| 21 | The deeper excavations produced the first complete fossil Bradyodont ( broadtoothed ) Ratfish to be found in Britain and for the fist time it was possible to see how five separately named fossil fragments previously supposed to belong to five different creatures actually fitted together like a jigsaw to form one . |
| 22 | The calling of the elections also followed immediately on a period of disarray within the Liberal-National Party opposition coalition , which included an embarrassing climb-down over its alternative health policy in February because of financial miscalculations . |
| 23 | Young children probably work best to a more ‘ integrated model ’ ; older children may get something from some more sustained subject focus . |
| 24 | Environmental issues now contribute much to an ever-increasing awareness of the overwork of the land and the pollution of the countryside . |
| 25 | Pupils often respond positively to a challenge , and there is the advantage of something completely new . |
| 26 | Women bore children late ; widowed men commonly remarried quickly to a younger woman so that there was another batch of younger children in the family ; and most children married late . |
| 27 | It seems to be a very deep-seated tradition , the need to add another stone to an existing pile , and many who climb hills today do so with a stone in their pocket to add to the cairn on the summit . |
| 28 | Proper potterers never travel anywhere without a botanising field guide in their rucksacks . |