Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 2,000 programmes were referred to by our sample , ranging from specific short courses to six or twelve month programmes , which altogether represents a quite considerable commitment of resources to training on the part of public librarianship as a whole . |
| 2 | Essential oils are not always cheap , especially rose and neroli , but because they are highly concentrated , in use a little goes a very long way . |
| 3 | It causes sores on the lips , face , eyes , and mouth , on the genitalia , occasionally elsewhere on the skin , and rarely causes a very serious infection in the central nervous system of the newborn . |
| 4 | The law on school attendance acts as a rather crude instrument in this regard , although the child-centred philosophy of the Children Act 1989 extends into the area of school attendance and perhaps offers a more appropriate method of enforcing parental responsibility . |
| 5 | With such a tool it only needs a little extra pressure to severely weaken the main trace line . |
| 6 | It only needs a slightly increased tempo to be the great national anthem our country maybe does n't deserve , but will surely grow into when we have cast off childish things and grasped the thistle of independence . |
| 7 | This diagram necessarily oversimplifies a very complicated set of operations . |
| 8 | The interesting point is that , that I feel is , that this is , this , this , this all has a very heavy bearing on the regulatory system , because I think that really we 're now being financial services is a global village and you know whether somebody picks up a phone and di I think in fact did n't you have somebody gave evidence here and said that they could not investigate one of Maxwell 's transactions , because it had gone through the New York office . |
| 9 | Jack Hayden obviously has a very close affinity with William Terris ' ghost because when he made a purposeful visit to Covent Garden Station recently he saw him ‘ as large as life ’ , as if waiting to welcome him back . |
| 10 | The Executive obviously has a very serious problem when it comes to looking after these areas , ’ said Mr Wilson . |
| 11 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |
| 12 | America not only has a largely privatized nuclear industry but is the home of the Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 13 | Erm , I mean I think if we 're wishing to analyse the application , I I think we must consider what it does n't do for the village , and I think there are a number of aspects that have to be considered , erm , first of all as a village , and I 've heard in this very Parish Council that the reputed view made that there is a need for small village accommodation , this development certainly does not provide that , we 've also expressed a view that it would be nice to retain the existing bungalow , because that is small village accommodation , and although it only has a very limited history , again it would be nice to retain it as an integral part of the village . |
| 14 | This meat has been grazed on the summer grass and herbs and so develops a more complex flavour , darker colour and , while remaining tender , a slightly coarser texture . |
| 15 | The recipes in it ( there are over 100 ) are indeed ideally suited to students ; Sarah Freeman sensibly assumes a fairly restricted range of kitchen equipment , and the ingredients are all basic supermarket supplies . |
| 16 | The managing director who suddenly assumes a very friendly , familiar manner may be regarded with suspicion ; the accountant who turns up to work in his track suit may be ridiculed . |
| 17 | The ‘ self-production ’ of society , involving the mass participation of its members , is a complex and difficult undertaking , which perhaps requires a more buoyant and optimistic mood than now prevails . |
| 18 | One successful type of sponsorship that not only creates a more accurate impression of modern teaching methods but also gives parents something back in the way of entertainment is the sponsored Krypton Factor type event . |
| 19 | Another advantage of small chips with few address lines is that each cell of a chip only stores a very crude fragment of knowledge about the image on the retina . |
| 20 | I was n't so sure I was going to throw up now , but that same irresponsible , destructive part of my brain-just a few neurons probably , but I suppose there are a few in every brain and it only takes a very small hooligan element to give the rest a bad name — kept thinking about those fried eggs and bacon on the cold plate , and each time I almost heaved . |
| 21 | Ian Hislop , Merton 's opposing ‘ captain ’ on Have I Got News For You and editor of Private Eye , co-incidentally tells a very different story . |
| 22 | The most usual indicator is thymol blue ; this changes from amber ( neutral ) to dark blue ( basic ) at a cathode and so gives a clearly visible marker . |
| 23 | They were also less likely to label any type of credit as expensive , or encouraging overspending ( which perhaps implies a more unquestioning and trusting attitude than men 's ) . |
| 24 | The knowing use of the conventions of the detective story to write something that is not quite a detective story not only follows a rather well-established practice in post-war Italian writing , of which the novels of Gadda and Sciascia are the best-known examples ( cf. |
| 25 | Putting all the staff pictures together gives a more clear overall picture of that individual than any -staff member could achieve alone . |
| 26 | In that sense nationalism of course er it perhaps becomes a more dynamic and problematic ideology in nineteenth century Europe . |
| 27 | I mean he only likes a very simple diet himself , so he does n't |
| 28 | Everyone has their own ideas about how it should be done , but if everyone agrees to lift it together , it suddenly becomes a very easy task . |
| 29 | The Hawk gains or discards height so freely he suddenly becomes an almost invisible spot , light grey above the grey sea . |
| 30 | The fact that the research in 18 of the 23 subjects offered for assessment has been rated as reaching a level of national significance or better provides a very satisfactory base on which to building the University 's future as a research university . |