Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is natural that a mother should regard her child 's health as a matter of the highest importance ; but Judith Holt believed that the Almighty should also keep a watchful eye on a bank of which her husband had become a director . |
| 2 | The latter must also have a fully equipped showroom on their premises , and should be able to provide a full design , supply and installation service . |
| 3 | Plainly , there will be a very close connexion between the rules of change and the rules of recognition : for where the former exists the latter will necessarily incorporate a reference to legislation as an identifying feature of the rules , though it need not refer to all the details of procedure involved in legislation . |
| 4 | This curricular boundary is sometimes embodied in the fine institutional distinction between a ‘ department ’ and a ‘ centre ’ , though the latter can also indicate a specialized research centre . |
| 5 | Looking back from the eclectic seventies , the essentially post-sixties seventies , these youngsters of the fifties might well appear a deeply conventional , timid , duffle-jacketed wasp-waisted narrow-based crew , but to Alix , newly emerging from the all-too-personal matrix or patrix of The Heights , they had seemed richly various . |
| 6 | Consequently , as Aristotle puts it in his account , ‘ the slower will always have a lead ’ , in contradiction with experience , that is , the world of appearance . |
| 7 | But , who knows , the 1990s may yet see a synthesis of the two . |
| 8 | Ultimately , the 1990s will doubtless see a synthesis of different platforms and types of delivery . |
| 9 | But the not-so-bright can sometimes secure a place if the parents stump up a large entrance fee . |
| 10 | ‘ Eleven races might not be the optimum number , but a compromise between the two would probably produce a better system . |
| 11 | But the two must still pass a late fitness test and Griffiths admitted : ‘ Our injury problems have hit us hard , but the team spirit is tremendous . |
| 12 | The 440 will later take a 20Mb and the 880 a 64Mb disk , not yet priced . |
| 13 | A subordinate might therefore make a well-informed decision to win a short-term advantage when a different decision would have been preferable in the longer-term view . |
| 14 | Erm , as I said it was n't me that phoned originally , my guess is that there may be somebody else at the school who is trying to contact you , but while you 're on the line , let's just make a little let's just make a little date . |