Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research on UK quoted companies indicates that over half use either a wrong or an inappropriate technique for evaluating leases ( ‘ The Leasing Decision : A Comparison of Theory and Practice ’ by Colin Drury and Steven Braund , Accounting and Business Research , Vol 20 No 79 , Summer 1990 , pp 179–191 ) . |
| 2 | Okay erm how about a half take away a twelfth ? |
| 3 | So I 'm going to do erm a half add a third okay and a third add a quarter and a half take away a third okay and I 'll give you another one to do How about this one . |
| 4 | MCM provide quite a good assembly instruction leaflet with photographs depicting the 48 stages of the assembly procedure . |
| 5 | These arc just a few examples . |
| 6 | These provide neither an exhaustive listing nor even a wide range of examples , but clearly identify the differences that mark out the South in the contemporary United States . |
| 7 | I have n't seen these look just a minute , please . |
| 8 | Yet a mere glance at the list will reveal the predominance of the I form ( 960 times in my count , taking all first-person forms : I/me/my/myself/mine ) and the You or Thou form ( 890 times , including thou/thee/thy/thine/thyself ; you/ye/your/yours/yourself ) , over the third-person forms , where these imply either a third-person account of the beloved ( He in Sonnets 1–126 : 51 times ; She in Sonnets 127–52 : 31 times ) or a reference to some third party with whom the poet or his beloved is having a relationship ( She in Sonnets 1–126 : 11 instances ; He in Sonnets 127–52 : 22 instances ; total 33 ) . |
| 9 | Ready-finished doors are now among those on offer and these require just an occasional wipe over to keep them looking immaculate . |
| 10 | Both of these require only a qualified majority of the Council . |
| 11 | These occur twice a day and may not , under rules drawn up by the journalists themselves , be mentioned in print . |
| 12 | Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry . |
| 13 | We all owe Solly a deep debt of gratitude for his services to the cause of jazz for so many years . |
| 14 | The latter constitute both a small dictionary of commercial abbreviations and a set of dispositive rules . |
| 15 | Many have only a few hours to spare , but they enjoy helping in this way . |
| 16 | 6 Bind together a group of cinnamon sticks with Christmas ribbon and secure with a pin . |
| 17 | What about a sixth take away a twelfth what would that come to ? |
| 18 | So we do , ten take away a plus nine , that 's just take away nine . |
| 19 | So ten take away , if we did something like ten take away A add B , well that 's the same as ten take away A and then take away B. |
| 20 | So ten take away , if we did something like ten take away A add B , well that 's the same as ten take away A and then take away B. |
| 21 | So you 're okay with that , ten take away A minus , ten take away A add B will be ten take away A and then take away B. But if we do ten take away like we 've been doing here , A minus B and it comes out the same as this , it 'll be ten take away plus A , just take away A , and then take away minus B. Well taking away a minus B is the same as adding B. Erm do you remember the table ? |
| 22 | So you 're okay with that , ten take away A minus , ten take away A add B will be ten take away A and then take away B. But if we do ten take away like we 've been doing here , A minus B and it comes out the same as this , it 'll be ten take away plus A , just take away A , and then take away minus B. Well taking away a minus B is the same as adding B. Erm do you remember the table ? |
| 23 | So you 're okay with that , ten take away A minus , ten take away A add B will be ten take away A and then take away B. But if we do ten take away like we 've been doing here , A minus B and it comes out the same as this , it 'll be ten take away plus A , just take away A , and then take away minus B. Well taking away a minus B is the same as adding B. Erm do you remember the table ? |
| 24 | The system ensures that those who might seem most deserving receive perhaps an Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) — or a British Empire Medal ( BEM ) for those ‘ who do not qualify by rank for the higher awards ’ — while a bureaucrat who has successfully worked his way to the top of the civil service without putting a foot wrong will get a knighthood in the Order of the Bath . |
| 25 | The latter deal primarily in a currency of meaning while the former have still a conflict concerning the appropriate register for the target language . |
| 26 | Like the citizens of other advanced industrial countries , Americans in general have only a slight and spasmodic interest in politics . |
| 27 | Or was the 1980 result merely a personal victory for Reagan ? |
| 28 | If necessary put together a group of people who you know will be sceptical and try the presentation out on them first . |
| 29 | You two think quietly a minute |
| 30 | The value is always equal to , at any point it 's always equal to nine thousand five hundred take away a tenth of the number of miles it 's done . |