Example sentences of "[adv] brief [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond a few exceedingly brief encounters at dances attended by soldiers stationed around Barnard Castle , she apparently never had a romantic association . |
| 2 | Most impervious of all has been the news , making only brief reference to items such as the 1967 Sexual Offences Act or the more recent Local Government Act . |
| 3 | By skilful use of reversions the Osborne family controlled the office of Treasurer 's Remembrancer from 1552 to 1674 , with only a single complete break , while the Fanshawes established a hereditary regime in the post of King 's Remembrancer from 1561 to 1675 with only brief appearances from other families . |
| 4 | It gives only brief descriptions of the basic services as there is more information in the following booklets : |
| 5 | The sharper increase in relief expenditure once the boom of the early 1790s gave way to the food crises of the mid 1790s , with only brief respite before the hyper-crisis of 1800 – 1 , is unmistakable even if the wartime inflation from 1793 is taken account of . |
| 6 | 1.23 In our first Report we made only brief comments on equal opportunities . |
| 7 | Of necessity , the foregoing provides only brief details about the range of ground equipment available . |
| 8 | Miller and Dollard make only brief mention of the idea ( on which James concentrates ) of acquired distinctiveness ; but Miller ( 1948 ) explicitly acknowledges both possibilities , expressing them in terms of S-R theory . |
| 9 | There were only brief occasions at Skeldale House when we did not eat like kings and one of those was when Tristan was installed as temporary cook . |
| 10 | There may be only brief glimpses of the rabbit and it must be shot quickly and accurately or the opportunity is lost . |
| 11 | We had only brief glimpses of the parrot as it flew across gaps in the canopy , and with that I had to be content . |
| 12 | Extremely brief reply from the bridegroom |
| 13 | She begins with a tantalisingly brief resume of the resurgence of Murano glassmaking in the mid-nineteenth century , that fascinating period , full of pioneers in the re-discovery and re-invention of ancient techniques from both Roman and Renaissance glass . |
| 14 | While this necessarily brief look at the IDB support for export development will give an overview of the services we offer , it can not hope to provide a detailed catalogue of the full range of support schemes which are available . |
| 15 | TNC was given an astonishingly brief period of consultation while teachers were on their summer holidays in 1987 ; ISS was the subject of a year 's consultation in 1984–85 — perhaps too long . |
| 16 | Without engaging in the details of this debate , and having presented what is an admittedly brief over-simplification of Bernstein 's work , I would nevertheless venture to say that the different response patterns of working-class and middle-class women in the present sample do seem to fit into the broad outlines of Bernstein 's scheme . |
| 17 | Yet it seems hardly less lacking in vitality , and manages to make its commendably brief duration of 86 minutes feel like a great many more as it toils though a youthful crisis of conscience . |
| 18 | Before embarking on a rather brief description of the theoretical interpretations of the glass transition a word of caution should be given . |
| 19 | The separate spatial patternings of male and female reveal an absence of close intersexual bonding , and this impression is supported by the casual sexual arrangements and rather brief courtships of these animals . |
| 20 | Since what was , in fact , a remarkably brief reign as the seeming Generalmusikdirektor of Europe ( in the late 1950s Karajan held important posts simultaneously in Vienna , Berlin , Salzburg , Milan , and London ) , he was to some extent suspect in English-speaking countries , where there is a naturally healthy distrust of cultural super-heroes , of the idea of the conductor as Übermensch . |
| 21 | This new paradigm has enabled the development of highly structured and usually brief interventions in many areas of individual emotional problems . |
| 22 | 1101.3 Specimen letter confirming terms of engagement for the sale of a company ( more brief letter for a more experienced client ) |
| 23 | Yet there are also brief moments of recovery , moments of gratified desire and a coming to life : ‘ on this abandoned divan , I shall inhale for a long while still the earthy , vegetal smell which the faun left behind ; then , in the morning , wakened at dawn , I shall fling myself into the delicious air ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
| 24 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 25 | The comparatively brief use of stop-motion animation ( combined with rear projection ) in RoboCop , notably for the violently ineffective mechanical law-enforcement droid ED 209 , and the amiable parody of an O'Brien/Harryhausen dinosaur in the car commercial for the SUX 6000 , is a different case , or rather two . |
| 26 | For example , we now brief recruits on their rights and tell them and encourage them to actually come forward with their complaints , we very carefully brief and select our N C Os , we have open days for parents , we bring parents in so that they can feel part of the set up right from the start and so that their sons join the army and they tell their other friends to make sure they do to . |
| 27 | Another writer with a far briefer experience of life under sail , John Masefield , stands by contrast right in the centre of the convention of action and narrative in which the glory of adventure-story lies ; for at least one period of his life Masefield would have agreed , as Conrad would not , that he was a ‘ writer of sea-stories ’ . |
| 28 | With others , the operator may , for example , simply brief details of debtor 's name , date of judgement , and amount of money involved . |
| 29 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 30 | Section 3.4 provides a rather briefer coverage of internal relationships , whilst section 3.5 contains some concluding remarks . |