Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The network news programmes provide only a ‘ headline service ’ , nothing can be dealt with in any depth and everything that is covered has to be supported by good televisuals . |
| 2 | But opera , whether their texts are well-written in the conventional literary sense or not , have almost no value as plays , and their librettos make only a shadowy sense away from their music . |
| 3 | Second-year units involve both a treatment of general theories and concepts , and discussions of more concrete and practical issues such as Women . |
| 4 | The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon . |
| 5 | Though fascist candidates put forward a strong campaign in the London County Council elections of March 1937 , their six candidates for the three two-member divisions of Bethnal Green North East , Shoreditch and Limehouse were defeated and they received less than 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 6 | Er the company through the Training Centre and the Personnel Department put together a personal development plan . |
| 7 | In mud wrestling both fighters wear only a jockstrap . |
| 8 | Most New Zealand rugs get quite a hammering ’ |
| 9 | Many schools devote almost a third of the allotted time for each lesson to these exercises . |
| 10 | In this case the animals get quite a good deal , but in neither case do they contribute much to wealth . |
| 11 | Both Goodfellow and Kong Cheuk Kwan v R demand only a risk of physical injury . |
| 12 | Did he imagine it , or did that shapely but rigid mouth tremble just a little ? |
| 13 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 14 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 15 | I believe the Kuwaiti people naturally are a peace loving people and we will never forget that erm good nature of us and we will try to capitalise on that and maintain peace and Kuwait become again a country which has to have peaceful causes everybody . |
| 16 | If such doubts exist then an investigation is carried out over a maximum of four months to determine whether the merger should be prohibited or not . |
| 17 | Strapping lads cast away a problem |
| 18 | Editor , — The alleged beliefs and practices of clinical ecology portrayed by A B Kay bear only a superficial and pejorative resemblance to the actual published positions of the field 's representative organisation , the American Academy of Environmental Medicine , known as the Society For Clinical Ecology until 1985 . |
| 19 | PORTSMOUTH manager Jim Smith was still shell-shocked yesterday after seeing his side throw away a 5–3 lead to draw by conceding two goals in the last minute of a remarkable match at Oxford . |
| 20 | A Commission survey has shown that walkers have only a one-in-3 chance of being able to complete any 2 mile walk . |
| 21 | But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid she has a most irreverent attitude — and some of our gentlemen have quite a wide circle of acquaintances , so of course we must be able to offer complete discretion … ’ |
| 23 | Hallmarks of the research training provided by the department include both a commitment to individual , specialised scholarship and a concern for broader contemporary trends and potentials in the discipline . |
| 24 | Good monoskis have quite a different sidecut to normal skis — the narrowest point is the very back , and not the waist . |
| 25 | This heading comprises the vast majority of commercial contracts , where the parties have presumably an equality of bargaining power and have freely entered into properly negotiated contracts . |
| 26 | Real travellers will have discovered that most taxi drivers have only a cursory grasp of English so it may come as a surprise to learn that foreign cabbies ‘ drive at breakneck speed ’ while talking eloquently of ‘ local proverbs and giving handy hints about what to buy in the local market . ’ |
| 27 | Unfortunately it may not be this World Cup , for the Scots have just a minuscule chance of qualifying . |
| 28 | The techniques of display , enhancement , filtering and transformation of remotely-sensed images that have been described in this chapter represent only a selection of those available . |
| 29 | For them aircraft represent only a small part of their huge engineering and shipbuilding businesses . |
| 30 | To take the barbel in the Hampshire Avon as an example , some Middle Avon fisheries contain a small population of big fish and others like the Severals have quite a number to go for . |