Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By and large , the cached IDE host adaptor made only a marginal difference to my benchmarks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I think centenary park has quite a ring to it . |
| 11 | Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene . |
| 12 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 13 | IBM Corp was also absent , while Hewlett-Packard Co contributed only a lukewarm endorsement , with no precise commitment to implement the technology . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen . |
| 17 | Whatever its internal opinions , in responding to the House of Commons Select Committee 's report Acid Rain , the DoE peddled the Forestry Commission line that British tree damage bore only a ‘ superficial resemblance ’ to ‘ that associated with air pollution in West Germany ’ . |
| 18 | The highest level contains only a single location point for each occurrence of the item in the assembly . |
| 19 | We have finally come to realise that the fine texture of a beautiful English rose skin needs only a translucent wash of colour to promote its much-envied natural radiance . |
| 20 | HALF the world is starving , Britain is reeling with unemployment and crime , yet a race horse receives over a thousand get-well cards . |
| 21 | University lecturers , politicians , trade unionists and showbusiness figures rubbed shoulders with the citizens of Dublin in an attempt to drive home a message of peace to the men of violence . |
| 22 | Peter Slater , of Sussex University , used a sonograph to compare exactly a recording of the new song as sung by a wild song thrush with the sound of a trimphone ( Animal Behaviour , vol 31 , p 308 ) . |
| 23 | The same car registered just a week or two later in January will be worth several hundred pounds more when it 's time to trade it in . |
| 24 | ‘ The album made quite a lot in royalties , but it 's not like anyone 's bagging vast amounts of money , ’ says Neneh . |
| 25 | Wilson points out that the designer side represents only a fraction of the fashion industry 's £6.5 billion turnover . |
| 26 | Symptoms of anxiety may be controlled with practice using only a mild sensation of pain such as that created by digging your fingernails lightly into the palm of your hands , or pinching your earlobe , or gently biting your tongue or cheek . |
| 27 | What he thereby misses is that post-modernism represents simply a new façade or twist to architectural style as ideology discussed earlier . |
| 28 | The tenant may wish to limit its liability to the state and condition of the premises at the commencement of the term , in which case it would need to include a provision that it will keep the Premises in no worse condition than they are in at the commencement of the Term as evidenced by the Schedule of condition annexed hereto A schedule of condition would then of course have to be settled including , if possible , a portfolio of photographs . |
| 29 | A pianist plays twice a week in the small , genteel bar and the large lounge . |
| 30 | This outlay represents around a fifth of what it would cost to dispose of the waste locally . |