Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight owned only a morning Paper ( such as the Liverpool Daily Post ) and a ninth , Outram 's , owned two in the same town ( Glasgow ) . |
| 2 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 3 | By 1922 only 232 households owned a plough , whilst 278 lacked even a primitive wooden plough with which to turn over their new earth , if indeed they possessed any . |
| 4 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 5 | Cos that looks quite a nice one . |
| 6 | In the years between his father 's death and the outbreak of the First War , this became quite a grand establishment . |
| 7 | Parents have ( or should have ) authority over their children and this constitutes both a responsibility and a burden . |
| 8 | This statement paved the way for and was indeed reiterated in Roberts in which the Court of Appeal held that consent had on the facts been terminated where there was a formal deed of separation , even though this lacked both a non-cohabitation and a non-molestation clause . |
| 9 | This represents perhaps a quarter of the true figure . |
| 10 | This represents perhaps an indication of the forced nature of the experience — forced by the combination of the sensation of immobility of REM sleep in association with the rich visual experience offered by the overactive hindbrain . |
| 11 | All mountain rescue medical equipment is paid for by government funding , but this represents only a small percentage of our total costs . |
| 12 | This represents only a small proportion of the structure . |
| 13 | This represents quite a significant change because it signals that the authorities were inclined to let market forces have a greater influence on the volume of credit ( and therefore the stock of money ; see Chapter 5 ) as well as the recipients of credit . |
| 14 | This has both a short-term and a long-term objective . |
| 15 | A smaller 9.6 volt model is also offered , but this has only a 330mm ( 13in ) cutting capacity , and takes 12 hours to recharge . |
| 16 | Actually , with the exception of Oldham , and 4 home and only 2 away matches , this looks quite a tricky fixture list for them . |
| 17 | Slightly better is to use the test followed by study of the words spelled incorrectly ; but this causes only a marginal improvement . |
| 18 | After volume 45 comes a volume entitled ‘ Tables of Statutes and Index for Vols. 1–45 ; ’ this contains both an alphabetical and a chronological list . |
| 19 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 20 | This reinforced both a legalistic approach , conscious of conflicts of interest , and pessimism about the results of welfare-orientated admissions to care . |
| 21 | This seemed clearly a case of the patient needing the medicine more frequently so I suggested she take it at least 4 times daily . |
| 22 | This comprised quite a large industrial site and in later years became an important iron and tinplate rolling works . |
| 23 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 24 | This happened about a dozen times . |
| 25 | ‘ All this happened about a thousand years ago , ’ she said . |
| 26 | All of this costs just a fiver . |
| 27 | Erm now given , what less than five months er before this May the fourth directive , Mao is still saying that , this marks quite an important shift in policy . |
| 28 | Some language learners also find it easier to hear e.g. a word initial sound at a predictable point in a frame . |
| 29 | Of these , nearly half produced only a single related paper . |
| 30 | This varies quite a bit , depending on the training and experience of the practitioner . |