Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE second law of thermodynamics always arouses interest because it is the only widely applicable law of physics that is not symmetric under time reversal , and so singles out a particular direction of time . |
| 2 | Even according to that it only brings about a slight improvement and yet , the new road causes b in in the words of the County Planning Officer , erm the Borough Council 's own officers and the County Council 's own environmental consultants , causes severe environmental damage . |
| 3 | This mild stimulus normally produces only a weak withdrawal ; following conditioning a strong withdrawal is produced by the weak stimulus to the siphon as well . |
| 4 | The annual summer event , held in Castle Park , normally takes on a Victorian theme but organisers decided to change it to coincide with July 4 . |
| 5 | The airport already takes up a significant proportion of the island 's land area , and lengthening the runway will be difficult and expensive for the fragile economy . |
| 6 | The good news for NeXT Computer Inc is that WordPerfect Corp plans to include support for NeXTstep for Intel Corp processors in the upcoming interim release of WordPerfect 1.0.1 for NeXT , the bad news is that Cable & Wireless Plc alumnus Peter van Cuylenburg is resigning as president and chief operating officer of NeXT , just one year after he joined the company — ‘ Now that NeXT is becoming a software company , NeXT and van Cuylenburg mutually agreed that the restructured 200-person company no longer requires both a chief executive and a president and chief operating officer , ’ NeXT said in a statement . |
| 7 | Easy moves up a short arête lead off , and with the cliff being plumb vertical for 120ft at this point , the exposure is soon felt in both mind and arms . |
| 8 | This source observes that although demilitarisation generally extends over a limited zone with the goal of separating potentially hostile parties it may also cover regions and even continents , such as the Åland and Spitzbergen archipelagos and Antarctica . |
| 9 | Psychologism thus brings about a strange reversal of the disenchantment and demythologization of modern consciousness . |
| 10 | With Unix coming down to the desktop and moving into the commercial arena , Adobe feels their two paths are beginning to come together , even if Unix still represents only a tiny piece of its business . |
| 11 | Even if we adjust this figure downwards to say 20 per cent for the pre-1914 period , this still represents quite a large number of women ( 160 out of 800 ) who were in the trade for life , which usually meant until well over 60 . |
| 12 | D. Although jobs in light industry are increasing , with a few in each town , the region still has only a small proportion of its workers in manufacturing . |
| 13 | The emphasis , in other words , is upon good management rather than policy , an approach influenced partly by the need to minimize opposition from policy-conscious Whitehall departments , and partly because in the private sector-from which the managerial approach has largely been adopted — decision-making usually has only a limited policy content . |
| 14 | This at once opens up a huge field of enquiry , but since our concern here is with literary theory , I shall restrict my discussion to structuralism 's contribution to the study of literature and , in doing so , unfortunately run the risk of understating the effects of the new pluridisciplinarity on the approach to literature . |
| 15 | This operation usually requires only a short stay in hospital of 3 or 4 days . |
| 16 | It rapidly becomes merely a human love . |
| 17 | International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business . |
| 18 | Most people applying to drama school will be seeking to enrol on the full-time diploma course , which usually runs over a three-year period . |
| 19 | In deciding whether to make a reference to the MMC the Secretary of State may ask for advice from the Director General of Fair Trading , as the OFT usually carries out a preliminary examination of the merger . |
| 20 | Artificial appearance thereby takes on a sexual overtone which Porter detects in the expression ‘ making faces ’ , meaning to have sex Keith Thomas observes that by the eighteenth century bodily control became a symbol of social hierarchy An elegant person would not pass wind audibly , or expose teeth while laughing . |
| 21 | Equally , a significantly higher concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 in malignant ascites confirms previous work , but as it is a weaker inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator and is present in much lower concentrations than plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , it probably plays only a small part in the overall inhibition of fibrinolytic activity . |
| 22 | Brighton four-piece Sleep have produced a mighty fine debut which is obviously predominantly influenced by US hardcore but also owes quite a large debt to our own Snuff . |
| 23 | Brighton four-piece Sleep have produced a mighty fine debut which is obviously predominantly influenced by US hardcore but also owes quite a large debt to our own Snuff . |
| 24 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 25 | To me , the smell is not unlike fresh human ‘ BO ’ , but a bit sweeter ; it also has quite a peppery hint to it and a touch of wood smoke . |
| 26 | I 'm not really sure how I became friends with the boy , but he also has quite a good personality , + I can have a good laugh with him . |
| 27 | In doing so , she also shows how a literary education took on this curious status in India before the state took any role in popular education in England and before literary studies had been institutionalized as ‘ English ’ . |
| 28 | The analysis so far constitutes only a partial account of science . |
| 29 | I 'm told that Brian Summers put up some money to get the company started and now has quite a significant slice of the Supersight action . ’ |
| 30 | Seven years after losing her sight Philippa now holds down a full-time job . |