Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these commentators Wilde represents both a cultural ‘ decay ’ and a resurrection of ‘ pagan viciousness ’ and ‘ primal errors ’ ( pp. 98 , 134 ) . |
| 2 | Attempts to accommodate both a sensitivity to difference and a commitment to the universalistic claims of post-Enlightenment liberalism became increasingly convoluted and forlorn . |
| 3 | To provide people with the opportunity to acquire even a tiny stake in the land is a daunting task calling for wisdom , courage , and political integrity almost unheard of in modern times . |
| 4 | In its most basic form the technique involves merely an outline , or when it is filled in , a silhouette ; but of course it can be much more elaborate than that . |
| 5 | French doctors have treated dozens of patients in minutes using only a local anaesthetic . |
| 6 | By public demand their split became merely a brief sabbatical , and since being reunited the Blues Band have been playing their cocktail of traditional blues and original material around the globe . |
| 7 | Peggy made quite a good joke . |
| 8 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 9 | Germany receives about a quarter of Russia 's annual gas exports of about 100 billion cubic metres . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The polymorphism that is found within white clover populations in the field represents therefore a subtle ( or ? random ) variety of unique associations of apparently selectively important properties . |
| 12 | He recognized that the manyattas were ‘ an indigenous school ’ , an integral part of the process whereby a Masai became distinctively a Masai , and recommended that their character-building qualities be respected and adapted . |
| 13 | By and large , the cached IDE host adaptor made only a marginal difference to my benchmarks . |
| 14 | Unlike her major competitors , however , Germany lacked both a well-developed economic hinterland for agricultural and commercial support , and helpful overseas colonies . |
| 15 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Attempts to provide even a general set of labels for the principal functions of language have resulted in vague , and often confusing , terminology . |
| 18 | ‘ Ian looks quite a good keeper all-round . |
| 19 | I think centenary park has quite a ring to it . |
| 20 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 21 | Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene . |
| 22 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 23 | So is Viasa , a Venezuelan airline in which Iberia has both a 45% stake and management control . |
| 24 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 25 | Under Edward VI the war cost a further £1,387,000 , to which parliamentary taxes contributed only a small fraction . |
| 26 | Ellis found only a moderate rate ( about 4 per cent ) of frank insanity among his subjects ; a figure , incidentally , that included some examples of brain disease . |
| 27 | IBM Corp was also absent , while Hewlett-Packard Co contributed only a lukewarm endorsement , with no precise commitment to implement the technology . |
| 28 | Because they are mouthbrooders it does not matter if a male holds only a small or temporary territory , as the eggs are safe in the female 's mouth . |
| 29 | From the conference of Berchtesgaden in November 1937 to the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938 , from the increasingly threatening noises over Czechoslovakia in March 1938 to the abdication of Munich in September 1938 , from the last-ditch , desperate attempts to cobble together a tripartite agreement in May 1939 to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact in August 1939 , there was a sense of deathly inevitability compared to which Nizan 's repeated calls for collective security appear as no more than the efforts of a man crying in the wilderness . |
| 30 | In response to this development some teachers of English began to justify the value of their discipline on the grounds that it offered " an opportunity to discover both an individual identity and social role without premature commitment to a profession " . |