Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if you make a cup very deep and turn the sides over , you eventually make a lensless pinhole camera . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the research process was to be used to train locals in obtaining the information they needed , and thereby develop a network of individuals and groups who would express their concern for the land issues of the region by an ongoing commitment to further action at local and National level using the results obtained from the study . |
| 3 | Through the emergence of the arts and crafts movement , Morris succeeded in establishing a craft tradition in which the individual could retain some control over every stage of manufacture from design to execution , and thereby gain a far more satisfactory relationship with the product . |
| 4 | In formulating the original agreement with Fields , Branson had ensured a clause be written in stipulating that , under the Articles , Virgin as the majority shareholder had the right to appoint more than two ‘ A ’ directors , and thereby gain a majority of the board , if it was ‘ not satisfied with the financial position , or the management position of the company ’ . |
| 5 | People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another . |
| 6 | It fails to see the complex ( and often hidden ) relational aspects of power which effectively make a nonsense of simple statements about who has power . |
| 7 | This would give greater predictability to litigants and presumably effect a reduction in the amount of judicial time devoted to these matters . |
| 8 | Further research is required if we are to understand better the process of early retirement in a variety of circumstances and thereby build a sounder basis for policy . |
| 9 | Center Parcs have done their market research — they know that their target market want the healthy Nineties lifestyle and duly provide a huge sports hall . |
| 10 | Battles are rare , and mostly involve a stallion in his prime making a determined effort to wrest the harem from an older stallion . |
| 11 | For example , hire purchase will generally be fixed-sum , restricted-use , debtor-creditor-supplier ; credit card use will generally be running-account , restricted-use , debtor-creditor-supplier , and additionally involve a credit token . |
| 12 | MINIS , when properly developed , could identify and measure the performance of departmental cost centres , and thereby provide a potential for the comprehensive reorganization of departments based upon the principle of decentralization to managerially autonomous accountable units . |
| 13 | Assuming that a target company is confined to an authority of 10 per cent it will be seen that the directors of the target and their concert parties will need to hold at least 27 per cent before the buy-in to hold 30 per cent afterwards and thereby trigger a Rule 9 obligation . |
| 14 | Festive food should be fun as well as tasty , so pick a few items of specialist kitchen equipment and tableware to add the finishing touches to your yuletide table spread . |
| 15 | So pick a corner , |
| 16 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 17 | Inside lay a green woollen balaclava , a green sleeveless pullover and a pair of navy blue corduroy shorts . |
| 18 | The door was flung wide , and inside lay a dark cave . |
| 19 | The walk is expected to last all day so bring a packed lunch . |
| 20 | But because parents bring up girls in a different way to boys in most cultures , women experience life quite differently and so bring a uniquely female perspective to many issues of local as well as global importance . |
| 21 | Debasement of the coinage led Wriothesley to call the Mint ‘ our holy anchor ’ ; its profits were such that he told Paget to keep its operations secret , ‘ for if it should come out that men 's things coming thither be thus employed , it would make them withdraw and so bring a lack ’ . |
| 22 | The evidence he has collected shows that working people of the last century were able to hold an image of society from their own experience and so articulate a political consciousness . |
| 23 | Undoubtedly , the fact that both mothers and daughters are able to have babies and so enact a continuing cycle makes their dilemma of finding a harmonious balance difficult . |
| 24 | The experiments just mentioned not only introduce a much-needed control procedure but they also extend the generality of the effect . |
| 25 | This will , of course , only introduce a new level of complexity . |
| 26 | Backing up your data is vital , so book a lunch date if you choose level two , because it takes about one minute per megabyte of hard disk space to set up . |
| 27 | And then there are some musicians who merely make a living . |
| 28 | Flour beetles do not need water but breed best in a damp atmosphere , so push a test tube or small jar containing water down into the flour . |
| 29 | That analysis is so well understood in North America that their discrimination statutes merely enact a general prohibition on employment discrimination on account of disability . |
| 30 | Though an electric car itself may be an inefficient machine , with a battery , electric motor and transmission system , all of which are individually efficient , the car requires electricity from a plug in the garage to charge up its batteries and the Electricity Generating Board and Power Stations are themselves inherently inefficient and they perhaps introduce a fact of only thirty percent into the overall conversion of primary fuel , that is coal , oil , gas , or nuclear , into electricity . |