Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The fractional-order beams result from interference between scattered waves involving an adatom at least once .
2 Even if it does happen , it does not force the conclusion that speaker 1 has monitored speaker 2 's speech and made an assessment of how often speaker 2 uses that variant .
3 All the quality papers led with an assessment of Too Long a Winter , and marvelled at the astonishing life led by this old lady with the gleaming white hair in that frozen lonely Yorkshire dale .
4 With large areas of water sheltered from waves , safe anchorages within an hour of almost anywhere , tavernas for supper whenever you want , and the guidance of our lead yacht this area proves that sailing can be incredibly easy and great fun .
5 There was another sharp trade for an entry of just under 100 calves , which sold to a top of £312 for a Belgian Blue with Friesian bulls to £215 .
6 It must therefore be recognised that a court which has jurisdiction under article 5(3) over an action in so far as it is based on tort or delict does not have jurisdiction over that action in so far as it is not so based .
7 In the South , the marginality of the third main political party , the Irish Labour Party , is an indication of just how successful the articulation of capitalism to religious and national beliefs is .
8 The Franks Report on the Falklands gives an indication of just how much this goes on .
9 An indication of just how diverse the mobile phone market has become is provided by Lorraine Smith , a director of Network Telecom Communications Ltd , who recently sold a phone to a 92-year-old woman .
10 While never a crucial factor in the political balance during the exceptionally unstable period after the coup , their participation was an indication of just how polarized Salvadorean society had become and was to provide the right-wing with good moral propaganda material .
11 The north was defined as all regions outside the South East , East Anglia and the South West ( the omission of the West Midlands from the south was itself an indication of just how much the geography of manufacturing industry had changed ) .
12 As an indication of just how easy it can be to start using a Macintosh from scratch we have recently installed a network system running PageMaker , MacWrite and MacDraw on a previously PC-only site .
13 In these populated areas , fieldworkers concentrate instead on looking for scatters of finds , such as sherds of pottery and worked stones , because these give an indication of where previously unknown archaeological sites lie buried : the finds are usually brought to the surface as the sites are damaged by ploughing .
14 Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit .
15 Each isotope also has a ‘ half life ’ — an indication of how fast its radioactivity will decay .
16 The mean percentage correct cloze score ( i.e. , the percentage of deleted words correctly replaced by the reader ) appeared to give an indication of how well a passage was understood .
17 If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit .
18 Now , the number of quiffs raised is not an indication of how well that job went through the companies or erm , because quiffs could be raised quite minor things like one person forgetting to put something on a form or a form not being photocopied , or procedure changes or others
19 And can you give an indication of how quickly these things could be ordered in an emergency ?
20 The Washington Post of July 17 described this overwhelming endorsement as " an indication of how far the official Communist majority has had to move in order to keep pace with the pressure from Rukh [ the main nationalist opposition group ] " .
21 But Marion Molteno leaves things in the air , where they belong — perhaps as an indication of how much there still is to do that whispers ‘ whatever you do , do n't do nothing … ’
22 Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ?
23 You should also give your client an indication of how long the appointment is going to take .
24 At least Jeremy Seabrook 's cut-out cardboard teenage figures of abject horror and pity know , as they sit sniffing glue and planning how to knock off a video recorder , that the world owes them something , that they have a right to the earth , an attitude at least as subversive as the endurance " that is the result of not being ever given very much .
25 How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal .
26 Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action .
27 Hardstand number two was so little that we could n't get an airplane on there so we parked the gas trucks there .
28 The implication of this is that any policy proposal for a particular industry can only be made after an investigation of not only the structure of the industry , but also of the objectives and conduct of the firms within it .
29 Once you have decided your policy and put it in place , keep an eye on how well it 's working .
30 Thus when carnal and financial imagery in the tale finally merge in the puns taille and taillynge at the very end , it is an emblem of how much deeper the " " bretherhede " " and " " cosynage " " runs that the monk and the merchant imagine exists between them in the form of play , or as a polite figure of speech , and how concrete it is .
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