Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he creates the many happy and not so happy incidents that can occur on a skating rink where even a professional can ‘ miss a trick ’ . |
| 2 | Her end product may be a highly decorative seat where once a junk shop kitchen chair stood , but it is also functional art , and the fact that it is three-dimensional gives it an element of involvement that is often missing from a flat canvas . |
| 3 | It has a large garden and a terrace where once a week , instead of dinner , you may enjoy a barbecue . |
| 4 | A Gothic castle on the edge of the cold waters , on treeless cliffs where boats founder , where villages vanish ghostlily in shifting sands , and a reef where once a year appear the ragged bodies of all ever wrecked thereon — it begets legend . |
| 5 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 6 | The purchaser will need to remember that a minimum delay of between 14 and 21 clear days may be needed in between exchange and completion if either an ordinary resolution or special resolution of shareholders is needed . |
| 7 | With this the two of them wall up the entrance until only a tiny slot is left open . |
| 8 | W. R. Hamilton was appointed Astronomer Royal for Ireland and a Professor while still an undergraduate in 1827 . |
| 9 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 10 | On Nov. 1 Kaunda conceded defeat after about a third of the results had been publicly declared . |
| 11 | Attempts to set up a national printers " union in Scotland date from 1836 , but both the General Typographical Association of Scotland and its successor , the Northern District Board of the National Typographical Association , came to grief after only a few years . |
| 12 | When the cat is found hanged in the closet ( the first act of violence after nearly an hour 's build-up ) , his wife reproaches him with being a coward because he will not confront the men she thinks have killed the animal . |
| 13 | The fact that religion wo n't just go away — that it is a phenomenon to be explained — has led those influenced by positivism to explain religion as entirely a matter of social and cultural conditioning and outward show : basically religion is a kind of cultural dressing-up game . |
| 14 | The underlying approach of codification in re-forming the law has stressed the mechanistic nature of legal reasoning as essentially a syllogistic exercise . |
| 15 | We were making our way up a trackway towards the main gate of the manor when suddenly an old hag slipped out of the trees on one side of the path and stood squarely in front of Mandeville . |
| 16 | They see our future as merely an offshore island for foreign investment which guarantees some tenuous future in the European Community . |
| 17 | It would be possible to dismiss the Plus Programme as merely an expression of a different style , without substance or commitment to institutional change . |
| 18 | This was the reason I asked you to return to the house of your childhood : because the places we have loved — or hated — as children remain in the mind as almost a structuring force . |
| 19 | In practice though only a minority actually take the plunge and turn armchair fantasy into reality . |
| 20 | There has , in fact , been a tendency to avoid the issue and view self-esteem as primarily an enduring trait . |
| 21 | Indeed , his view of this independent sovereign as purely a pawn in the French political game was never more clearly seen than in 1556 , when he contemplated marrying her to the English nobleman Edward lord Courtenay , in response to the threat that Philip of Spain , then married to Mary Tudor , would give her sister Elizabeth as a bride to Ferdinand of Austria . |
| 22 | In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Since adherents of this first school regard college as primarily an intellectual training ground , they stress the inherent educational value of such subjects as classical languages ( Greek and Latin ) , political philosophy or English literature , all of which encourage the development of sensitivity , subtle and flexible reasoning , intellectual ingenuity and the willingness to see all sides of an argument . |
| 24 | For David Marquand 's main mistake is to see the policy review as merely an exercise in junking outmoded policies . |
| 25 | As for the avant-garde , we can see the development of modernism as precisely an outraged and deliberately esoteric response to the new drive towards total commodification . |
| 26 | To take the Liberals first , it had been a commonplace of political analysis over previous years to regard the Liberal vote as largely a product of temporary disillusion with the Tories following on periods of Tory government , as a protest vote . |
| 27 | Those were the words he spoke to her as she lay in his arms in the vulnerable moments following his pleasure when only a lout — in his opinion — would turn away from a woman without a word and go to sleep . |
| 28 | Discussion revealed that women 's interests lay very much with lambing , first aid , dairy husbandry and financial management although quite a few were doubtful about their capacity to cope with the last of these subjects . |
| 29 | With this unstable machine and the limited resources of post-war Spain , Ferdinand hoped to recover the American Empire ; his dilemma was that only American silver could stave off bankruptcy while only a solvent state could reconquer America . |
| 30 | He said he had worked out his political philosophy while still a student : a belief in the free market , small business , and individual freedom through expansion of home ownership , and a commitment to the European Community . |