Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 2 | IBM Corp duly announced a whole string of speech recognition products , ranging from basic personal computer applications to leading-edge speech technology , developed at the Thomas J Watson Research Center . |
| 3 | Intel Corp duly launched a new copyright infringement case against Advanced Micro Devices Inc over the latter 's just-announced Am486 parts that include Intel microcode . |
| 4 | I knew Mum rarely read a newspaper so she would n't hear of the killing that way . |
| 5 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 6 | Later Jed had lost all sense of time as the external heart slowly pumped a solution of formaldehyde into the dead woman 's body , as the dead woman 's body began to blush . |
| 7 | The long-term asymptotic rise eventually adds a further increase of 2.1x10 -6 Hz to the rotation rate . |
| 8 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 9 | Moreover , an ant under the sway of a dope-peddling caterpillar eventually enters a state called ‘ binding ’ , in which it becomes inseparable from its caterpillar for a period of many days . |
| 10 | The rising thereby received a new impetus — and , once begun , aid from Italy and Germany continued to arrive . |
| 11 | From her first class in Morden nine members went on to train as teachers , with Jean Parmiter eventually becoming a Senior Trainer . |
| 12 | However , since the grant only purchased a few hundred books , these tended to " disappear once distributed around the shelves . |
| 13 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 14 | Susan had come up to them , and stood still in horror at the sight of her sister apparently embracing a total stranger . |
| 15 | Experience of being in the pew naturally plays an important part in forming perceptions of how to plan and conduct worship , and the place of music within it . |
| 16 | Father-of-two Patch wears his hair long to hide a hearing aid and lip-reads when filming . |
| 17 | In a public or university library which does not have subject specialists on its staff — or even in those that do — this places an intolerably heavy burden of responsibility on the individual 's judgement , and it is unlikely that any one person called upon to make weeding decisions over a spectrum of subject fields will on the basis of judgement alone achieve a consistent rate of ‘ correct ’ decision making . |
| 18 | Taking a tent obviously gives a lot more flexibility , freeing you from the near necessity of booking accommodation in advance . |
| 19 | Rather than ending the discussion this decision merely began a period of three years during which the issue of " Unity " was rarely off the agendas of local Labour parties , trade unions and other sections of the labour movement . |
| 20 | This applies even if the change only affects a user manual . |
| 21 | A retailer only makes a profit if he sells goods — and if customers think products are too expensive , they will go elsewhere . |
| 22 | After all , the retailer only makes a profit on the items he sells : if the prices he charges are too high , the customers will go elsewhere and he wo n't make any profit at all ! |
| 23 | For example , the private sector at present only provides a limited range of services and therefore no one would be able to opt out entirely from the NHS . |
| 24 | The water treatment polymers will open up new markets for FMC , which at present only has a small business in this field based on commodity chemicals . |
| 25 | As mentioned above , income support only has an ordinary , and not a long-term rate . |
| 26 | You can turn down a fire hose to water a garden , but you can not turn up a garden hose sufficiently to tackle a fire . |
| 27 | The 1947 variety merely boasted a modest Lion Rampant and was superseded by the classical Jean Cocteau motif in 1961 . |
| 28 | The story basically surrounds an ambitious clerk , and his strange home life , and private life , and work life basically . |
| 29 | In past years you have been kind enough to allow a skip to be sited on the Mill Yard for the collection of large items of household rubbish . |
| 30 | Higher spending need not of course necessarily imply an improvement in the standard of health care provided . |