Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the company through the Training Centre and the Personnel Department put together a personal development plan . |
| 2 | Did he imagine it , or did that shapely but rigid mouth tremble just a little ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Good monoskis have quite a different sidecut to normal skis — the narrowest point is the very back , and not the waist . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | High latitude and frequent cloudiness provide only a short growing season , and a suspended peat limits photosynthesis to shallow photic ( light ) zone of about 6 m . |
| 8 | And figures for the country of birth of heads of household give only a rough estimate of ethnic minority populations , as some members of ethnic minorities live in households whose head was born in the United Kingdom , and some of those living in households whose head was born outside the United Kingdom do not belong to ethnic minorities . |
| 9 | When self-regard is so shatteringly undermined , the symbols of a former shaky greatness become almost an affront . |
| 10 | The extraordinary decadent sensuality of the books and their moral and sexual elusiveness seem nowadays a particularly unpleasing example of social hypocrisy . |
| 11 | I know people who will say it 's not a good idea , and that 's the people in commercial television and commercial radio , who , if the B B C started to take advertising , would see their slice of the cake get just a touch less . |
| 12 | Even if it were true that all of consciousness and only that fell under statements of the three kinds , or related kinds , we would by means of this truth get only a wholly uninformative conception of consciousness . |
| 13 | Found on rocky coastal areas , younger wrasse live only a few metres deep , while larger specimens can be found deeper than 15 metres . |
| 14 | Hickey thinks the group take almost a unique standpoint . |
| 15 | Plans for the evening include just a bit more cake , a few more presents and the simple kind of games that children really enjoy . |
| 16 | Few pilots are in this game for the glory or so — called glamour , but because we are inextricably dedicated to the sport of aerobatics , and we have an insatiable desire to one day bring home a Gold , Silver or even a Bronze . |
| 17 | I mean , we , we used to have , like , we 'd have meat come twice a week , they 're the butchers , and then we 'd have coming , maybe , erm , once a week , and then like the dry goods , er , erm , we 'd have another day , where erm , you know , you have different things , basically coming every day . |
| 18 | What would be a quarter take away a twelfth ? |
| 19 | A quarter take away a twelfth . |
| 20 | When you come to considering ventilation , bear in mind that it is a legal requirement that rooms containing a toilet have either a window that opens , or an extractor fan . |
| 21 | The models proposed for the development of the limb place quite a big burden on the cells ' response to apparently simple signals . |
| 22 | The instructions for folding a piece of paper involve only a few operations like folding and unfolding . |
| 23 | The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards . |
| 24 | Low fat sausages for example contain only a third as much fat as ordinary sausages . |
| 25 | Through what mechanisms will a rise in the unemployment rate have only an evanescent impact on the rate of inflation ? |
| 26 | Thus the descriptions of a language which are the output of a first-order application of linguistic theory represent only an inventory from which a selection must be made in order to draw up the syllabus for any particular teaching operation . |
| 27 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 28 | Windstopper does n't stretch , so garments using the lining need quite a generous cut if you 're going to be active on the hills in them , whether climbing or walking , and the added bulk and weight have to be considered . |
| 29 | This would not be too great a bother if morels could be collected in the wild for a reasonable length of time each year , but the fruiting bodies of the morel make only a brief appearance , sometime between March and May . |
| 30 | Later we take up the case of natural or pure monopoly where huge economies of scale allow only a single producer to survive in an industry . |