Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position . |
| 2 | If the retailer builds up a good relationship with his customers they will keep coming back — and maybe tell their friends . |
| 3 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 4 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 5 | The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen . |
| 6 | ‘ Your skin has n't a single blemish , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The highest level contains only a single location point for each occurrence of the item in the assembly . |
| 8 | We have finally come to realise that the fine texture of a beautiful English rose skin needs only a translucent wash of colour to promote its much-envied natural radiance . |
| 9 | What he thereby misses is that post-modernism represents simply a new façade or twist to architectural style as ideology discussed earlier . |
| 10 | My dilemma points up a basic dichotomy in the educational aims of the school . |
| 11 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 12 | Lombard North Central plc is one of the country 's largest finance houses and its legal department has about a dozen lawyers , both solicitors and barristers . |
| 13 | Overhead , a great circle of dark azure swirls round a gleaming crescent moon and into it , majestically , in the last light , sails Yr Wyddfa , as if to remind us that her magic lives . |
| 14 | The drawing shows both a real opportunity area and also a false entry . |
| 15 | However , local authorities have no powers to reimburse burial costs where a third party has already arranged a funeral ( but see ( b ) below in relation to deaths occurring in hospitals ) . |
| 16 | The second deterrent is a financial one : course participants do not have to pay fees , since the course itself is financed by the DES , but they do have to fund their living costs over a ten-week period — a not inconsiderable financial commitment . |
| 17 | This album gathers together a cutting edge slice of Detroit ‘ 92 and — if it gets the right profile — could have the same seismic effect as Virgin 's ‘ Techno ’ collection did in the late '80s . |
| 18 | The action revolves around a failed robbery and the attempts of the various hoods involved ( all dressed in black suits and ties and given colour-coded aliases ) to figure out which one of their number is an undercover cop . |
| 19 | This demonstration shows how a dropped match can turn a foam- filled armchair into a death trap in seconds . |
| 20 | Basic research takes up a tiny percentage of that life sciences budget . |
| 21 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 22 | The defender takes up a left fighting stance ( all combinations are best practised from the fighting stance , as this allows a greater amount of protection and freedom of movement ) and faces the attacker , who executes a front kick to the defender 's mid-section . |
| 23 | Yeah that football sounds quite a good idea |
| 24 | But the term takes on a specific meaning in those studies in the sociology of policing which are inspired by ethnomethodology and phenomenology , where it describes a quality of the accomplishment of these tasks — that they are produced in a taken-for-granted , commonsensical , and habitual manner . |
| 25 | Wire wool takes on a new meaning when you see Sophie Ryder 's flock of sheep at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . |
| 26 | An accelerated stability study indicates only a probable shelf-life under given conditions ; the longer the duration of the test the greater the probability . |
| 27 | The drawing suggests how a sub-plan feeds into the mainstream of the over-all plan . |
| 28 | The drawing suggests how a great deal of attention has been paid to one area but other areas have been ignored . |
| 29 | This leap into the future comes only a few months after the dest … ruction by fire of — ’ |
| 30 | The standard problem of judicial review arises over a contested interpretation given to one of the statutory terms which the tribunal has to interpret . |