Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a prospective study of general practice prescribing involving more than 40 000 people over a 2-year period , Skegg et al. ( 1983 ) found that only three in a thousand of those who had received psychotropics went on to take an overdose of the drugs within the following 12 months . |
| 2 | Oh yeah I suppose it will be much too early Left home at er today come in , I thought I so I 'd only gone about half a mile down the road filled up my car , paid the money the car would n't start I kept turning nothing was happening and then all of a sudden after a couple of minutes it erm like the way I 've button up my coat ? |
| 3 | Trowark style is large , enveloping and extremely cosy with an almost indestructible quality — one five-year-old jumper seen by The Independent is only just beginning to look ‘ broken in ’ after years of frequent machine washing and hard wear . |
| 4 | Offshore wind farms would be more expensive to establish but far less of an eyesore . |
| 5 | Baudrillard perceives this as the product of multi-national capitalism , but on reflection this principle is not so different from the utility of relations enhanced by the object which was stressed as socially cohesive in a non-industrial society . |
| 6 | But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar . |
| 7 | Douglas hoped to surprise the castle sufficiently to gain access ; but he recognised that however much of a surprise , this might not be possible , for it was a fairly strong place , not a major fortalice but moated and walled , with drawbridge , gatehouse , portcullis and the rest . |
| 8 | A clause , such as is commonly found in standard terms , providing that the whole of the parties ' obligations are defined by the written agreement may also be caught by s3(2) ( b ) if , in fact , the contract is partly written and partly oral as a result of oral undertakings given alongside the written contract . |
| 9 | In this theory , money is seen as just one of a number of ways in which wealth can be held , along with all kinds of financial assets , consumer durables , property and ‘ human wealth ’ . |
| 10 | What is certain is that Oakland start their second consecutive World Series as firm favourites , their combination of power ( Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire ) , pitching ( Dave Stewart and Mike Moore ) , defence ( Mike Gallego and Carney Lansford ) and speed commonly seen as too strong for a San Francisco side carrying several half-fit pitchers and vulnerable defensively to Henderson 's base stealing . |
| 11 | Work itself with its complicated fluctuation of task was seen as too complicated for a worker to understand and the belief was that only management could do so . |
| 12 | Moreover , it was seen as too generous at a time when those parties had become more extreme . |
| 13 | This area is seen as only one of a number of possible future points of development , for plans are being discussed for setting up a linked structure of subject panels from national down to district and location level to give all teachers the opportunity to comment on materials and raise suggestions for new approaches . |
| 14 | The extent to which it could have been foreseen and thus pre-empted by a more alert administration , which tried to foresee coming trends , seems to be a matter of disagreement among prison administrators , critics and researchers in many jurisdictions . |
| 15 | 18.1 Any notice required or permitted under the terms of this Agreement or required by statute , law or regulation shall , unless otherwise provided for , be in writing , and shall be delivered in person , sent by registered mail or air mail as appropriate , properly posted and fully pre-paid in an envelope properly addressed , or sent by telefax or by telex to the respective Parties as specified above or to such other address , telefax or telex number as may from time to time be designated by notice hereunder . |
| 16 | Its state regiments are well equipped and lavishly uniformed in a mixture of red and blue . |
| 17 | The invading army was evidently homeward bound and perhaps disinclined for a renewed engagement , which may explain why Cadafael ( HB ch. 65 ) and Oethelwald ( HE 111 , 24 ) withdrew before battle was joined . |
| 18 | Perhaps I am being unnecessarily cynical but it seems that too much of a designer maker 's time is spent on public relations and maintaining the image and there is less willingness to share the things learned from technical and creative nightmares . |
| 19 | I find that totally objectionable from a Government who are shaping up to borrow and spend to save their necks . |
| 20 | ‘ People do like knowing how they 're performing and so much in an insurance company was considered ‘ immeasurable ’ . |
| 21 | He suggested a better test would be whether the material would be judged as grossly offensive to an ordinary citizen . |
| 22 | That government is legitimate which is viewed as morally proper for a society . |
| 23 | too small to eat and too big for a key ring . |
| 24 | Transport organizations predict that only the three main lines to London will be left and only those with a peak service . |
| 25 | Here the incoherence has been identified as probably resolvable by a metaphoric reading , but the respondent obviously feels it is too invisible for her to be able , as yet , to resolve it successfully . |
| 26 | for example , the earlier work of the E C Commission appeared to proceed on the untested assumption that any differences in national laws of member States within the field identified as potentially suitable for a Directive distorted the Common Market and justified the proposed Directive , without any fieldwork being undertaken to see whether there was in fact a problem . |
| 27 | She said and then all of a sudden she 'll come back and her friends waiting around so they |
| 28 | A pass in the Leaving Certificate awarded up to and including 1976 is regarded as approximately equivalent to a Northern Ireland GCE ‘ O ’ level pass . |
| 29 | A pass in the Leaving Certificate awarded up to and including 1976 is regarded as approximately equivalent to a Northern Ireland GCE ‘ O ’ level pass . |
| 30 | The combination of these factors establishes a pattern of work to be regarded as normally appropriate for a solicitor and , arguably , a definition of legal problems . |