Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data General Corp is finding the transition to open systems at a time of recession extremely painful with a second quarter loss of $55m after a $48m charge for another 1,000 lay-offs : turnover was down 14% at $274m , in part because the sale of the Japanese subsidiary cut volume by $19m ; the company blamed the disappointing results on competitive pricing pressures , which have cut profits , as well as the weak worldwide economy ; the company says it continues to be very cautious about the remainder of 1992 ; AViiON sales continue to grow , but ‘ we are not satisfied with overall revenues , ’ the company declared Electronic Data Systems Corp says its graphical design system now supports Hewlett-Packard 's series 700 workstations : first deliveries are scheduled for May . |
| 2 | By late March only seven of a reported 571 oil well fires had been capped and it was estimated that it might take a further three years to extinguish all the fires . |
| 3 | Make sex discussions much less of a trial with the Family Planning Association 's new Growing Up series of leaflets : Answering Your Child 's Questions , for parents ; How Your Body Changes , for teenagers . |
| 4 | There was much protest from the anti-nuclear movements , and more unease because the Americans insisted on a base so near to a densely populated region with Glasgow at its heart . |
| 5 | I have found all these meetings extremely valuable as a means of keeping in touch with UK and international developments in the environment field , and as a way of feeding in views from Wales . |
| 6 | There is no experience so uncomfortable for a nation as to run headon unawares into an axiom . |
| 7 | Such drastic tactics are of course only justifiable against a violent attack . |
| 8 | To keep prisoners so near to a frontier on the far side of which they would be free , could seem a casual or risky policy , but it is hard to imagine anyone actually escaping from Le Portalet , whose grated windows you can see from the road , with a nasty drop of a good 100 feet straight on to the rocks beneath them . |
| 9 | What makes a new action relevantly similar to an old one ? |
| 10 | In a smaller way after 1987 the emergence of a Scottish electorate overwhelmingly hostile to a Conservative government in power on the basis of English electoral success can sustain nationalist arguments for the general illegitimacy of the constitutional arrangements of the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | " I do n't find these little oriental chariots altogether unpleasant as a mode of transport , Joey , " he said , affecting an exaggerated Harvard drawl . |
| 12 | The intuitions most relevant to a study of meaning would seem at first sight to be intuitions about what things mean . |
| 13 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
| 14 | We have undergone in the last year a major refurbishment of all our guest and public rooms and now offer the comforts so necessary for a mini-break . |
| 15 | On the evidence of his prolific plundering over the opening furlongs only those with a penchant for an eggy face would do so with any lack of compunction . |
| 16 | The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises . |
| 17 | It includes structures that ( according to some observers ) have facilitated policy discontinuity — a discontinuity not incompatible with an empirical orientation to change — yet comprises such an interdependent complex of political bodies that it has become increasingly difficult for government to govern and to initiate radical and comprehensive change . |
| 18 | e.g. to generalize about the significance of an event : " The basic weakness of the Treaty ( of Versailles ) lay in the fact that it left the German people in a frame of mind not conducive to a lasting peace . |
| 19 | faulty design of a seal unacceptably sensitive to a number of in–service factors . |
| 20 | Data already available from a national longitudinal survey of 12,000 children from birth to 10 years will be used to test the hypothesis that having a job outside the home can reduce the risk of maternal depression — particularly in socially disadvantaged mothers . |
| 21 | In bed he was further surprised to discover that a person capable of such mental sophistication could retain a physical side more typical of a child of eight . |
| 22 | It may not necessarily impair the reliability of data in the computer that you feed in something which will produce a result more favourable to a customer than the store holder intended . |
| 23 | But they were a good deal more important at a symbolic level . |
| 24 | In the long term , all West Germany 's Western neighbours and partners would feel a great deal more relaxed about a coming-together of the two Germanies if her immediate neighbours to the East were capitalist democracies , themselves gradually integrating into a larger Western European community . |
| 25 | Two recent reports from UBS Phillips & Drew and Midland Montagu both plump for an early election , largely on economic grounds . |
| 26 | The fish made little leaps and flips , as if it could feel the sea along its flank , its mouth wide open in a frantic dumb-show of breathing ; all the time , its eyes were growing dull and yellowed as old tinfoil . |
| 27 | Like many women , I find scrupulous attention to personal hygiene slightly sinister in a man . |
| 28 | She 'd gone to bed with Rune willingly , with both eyes wide open in a metaphorical sense , knowing his background and aware that , in the natural , uncomplicated atmosphere of Scandinavia , perhaps more than anywhere else in Europe there were fewer taboos regarding physical relationships between couples . |
| 29 | Anderson then put the Scots seemingly safe with a nine-point lead , but a burst by Dawson brought an England try converted by Maddocks . |
| 30 | Wally Watmough was the loud-mouthed fat boy who had once beaten Frankie almost senseless in a fist-fight behind the old air-raid shelter in a corner of the boys ' playground . |