Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applicants must satisfy the general entry requirements for admission to a first degree course ( see page 51 ) , and will normally have completed successfully a Foundation Course in Art and Design . |
| 2 | The various fusion machines that a had been built were producing neutrons-supposedly a sign that fusion was taking place but the neutrons had nothing to do with thermonuclear reactions . |
| 3 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 4 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 5 | You got rather a lot of beans . |
| 6 | As she glared at him , he continued , ‘ So get used to the fact that , if you plan on staying on here , you will unfortunately be seeing rather a lot of me . |
| 7 | Huh , he 's a good , good lad , but he 's er he drinks rather a lot and suffers quite a lot from hangovers , he comes in dries up and goes |
| 8 | ‘ You 're presuming rather a lot , ’ the Doctor pointed out , ‘ from a heap of crumbled ruins . ’ |
| 9 | Dissenters normally formed only a minority of townsmen but they were often an influential one . |
| 10 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 11 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This represents perhaps a quarter of the true figure . |
| 14 | This represents perhaps an indication of the forced nature of the experience — forced by the combination of the sensation of immobility of REM sleep in association with the rich visual experience offered by the overactive hindbrain . |
| 15 | Is a house being erected only a building when its roof is on ? |
| 16 | I CAN IMAGINE THE INDIGNANT HOWLS OF protest as collectors all over the country now run to their shelves to gather together a clutch of beloved performances . |
| 17 | Far from being a conclusion of the ‘ consumer-led ’ revolution beloved of propagandists , the change is the child of a retail revolution which , for the consumer , constitutes only a re-arrangement of his or her individual powerlessness . ’ |
| 18 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
| 19 | Eight owned only a morning Paper ( such as the Liverpool Daily Post ) and a ninth , Outram 's , owned two in the same town ( Glasgow ) . |
| 20 | But Kraal only shook his head and stared mournfully out on to the lovely morning , seeing only a memory of an old eagle he had argued with but always loved and who would never come back . |
| 21 | Few people were about , owing to the lateness of the hour , and the guards around the entrance of each tower she passed , glanced briefly at her and turned away , seeing only a woman of indeterminate age , muffled in a hooded cloak such as was worn by serving-women everywhere . |
| 22 | Here , truly , is a place to sense freedom , to be away from the crowds and the pressures of the world , to wander for miles seeing only a handful of people enjoying the same leisurely activity , or maybe no-one at all . |
| 23 | you make an arrangement to have a game of tennis but the weather , you know i it 's snowing or it 's raining so a lot of them get rained off which is er quite sad . |
| 24 | Ben eased forward until his face was pressed against the glass , watching Gosse slow his breathing and focus his whole being upon the blade resting only a hand 's length from his stomach . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | While he was doing a little more manipulation of the bones before the plaster set , she got ready an injection of antibiotic and he took it from her with a nod of approval . |
| 27 | The bronze and heavy sky — ; I have heard suddenly a blackbird sing |
| 28 | The source of meaningfulness of these ideas lies in the logical relationships that bind together a cluster of basic ideas into a coherent pattern Thus if the idea of numerical diversity presupposes the possibility of irreducible relations , the idea of irreducible relations , in its turn , presupposes the possibility of an objective order , and the idea of an objective order ( I shall argue ) is unintelligible without the idea of a plurality of points of view occupied by different selves . |
| 29 | 6 Bind together a group of cinnamon sticks with Christmas ribbon and secure with a pin . |
| 30 | Mann tries to combine the desperation of their plight with a more lyrical look at Indian respect for struggle and death , all of which sits together a smidgeon uneasily until the final reel . |