Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |
| 32 | I have given only a very rough and general indication of how the model of teacher mediation I have presented and argued for in this chapter might itself be made operational . |
| 33 | The listener was given only a limited picture of life outside the capital and one which was seen through urban eyes . |
| 34 | Fourthly , the field workers were given only a few packets of ORS for distribution among the villagers . |
| 35 | He was given only a 50–50 chance of surviving . |
| 36 | He was given only a 50–50 chance of surviving . |
| 37 | Once more , we are given only a masculine point of view . |
| 38 | First , there is the prison itself , as a physical entity — apparently given only a very minor role in the classical model . |
| 39 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 40 | Dadda he had told , though even to him he had given only a vague location , but he had n't said a word to his grandmother and he was sure Peter would n't have told Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge . |
| 41 | Government proposals to solve the unrelieved surplus advance corporation tax problem suffered by companies with overseas operations were given only a guarded welcome . |
| 42 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 43 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 44 | It will be in everyone 's interest that the precise arrangements are specified , eg whether the partnership has a tenancy or contractual licence to occupy and in consideration of what payments , or whether the property is to be enjoyed rent free , or whether the firm is given only a non-exclusive personal licence which will determine on the death or retirement of the partner who grants the same . |
| 45 | ‘ But we are lucky to have her — she was given only a 50:50 chance of survival when she was born . ’ |
| 46 | Church-state law experts said a role for the Pope in the Anglican church was unlikely to provoke a constitutional crisis , if he was given only an honorary position . |
| 47 | This tough process , it was realised , did not accord with their own equal-opportunities policy , in that candidates for paid advice workers ' posts were given only an oral interview , even though their job description may have been identical to that of a voluntary advice worker . |
| 48 | The dividing wall was placed so a well established laburnum remained in one corner of their garden . |
| 49 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
| 50 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 51 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 52 | Now , one end is joined so a bit . |
| 53 | In the weeks before Christmas , the agent was starting to sack staff , some of whom had joined only a week before the order was issued . |
| 54 | In 1956 the Marlboro cigarette , formerly considered rather a ladylike thing to smoke , acquired its cowboy , with a tattoo on the back of his hand and the message : ‘ A man 's cigarette that women like too ’ . |
| 55 | John Ambrose should be well known to visitors to recent Woodworker Shows , as he has won rather a lot of medals in the turning competitions . |
| 56 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 57 | The survey briefing had included only a verbal specification . |
| 58 | The 1900 Secession exhibition was significantly international , but still included only a minority of avant-garde paintings . |
| 59 | This is especially true of those , often identified as burgi , which protected only a very small part of the settlement ( p. 35 below ) ; but even where larger areas were enclosed , most included only a fraction of the total , as for example at Catterick , Ilchester and Water Newton , where the inhabited extra-mural areas extended for considerable distances . |
| 60 | A group of us hastily slung together a plan and went back into the concert hall in an effort to oust the ruling junta . |