Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to accommodate both a sensitivity to difference and a commitment to the universalistic claims of post-Enlightenment liberalism became increasingly convoluted and forlorn . |
| 2 | French doctors have treated dozens of patients in minutes using only a local anaesthetic . |
| 3 | Attempts to provide even a general set of labels for the principal functions of language have resulted in vague , and often confusing , terminology . |
| 4 | Under Edward VI the war cost a further £1,387,000 , to which parliamentary taxes contributed only a small fraction . |
| 5 | From the conference of Berchtesgaden in November 1937 to the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938 , from the increasingly threatening noises over Czechoslovakia in March 1938 to the abdication of Munich in September 1938 , from the last-ditch , desperate attempts to cobble together a tripartite agreement in May 1939 to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact in August 1939 , there was a sense of deathly inevitability compared to which Nizan 's repeated calls for collective security appear as no more than the efforts of a man crying in the wilderness . |
| 6 | The network news programmes provide only a ‘ headline service ’ , nothing can be dealt with in any depth and everything that is covered has to be supported by good televisuals . |
| 7 | In contrast , it took me months and umpteen phone calls to obtain even a brochure from a well-known American vintage manufacturer . |
| 8 | Schedule 4 to the rules contains both an application and an affidavit ( Forms 6.4 and 6.5 ) , see Appendix C , forms 9 and 10 . |
| 9 | There must be very few bird reserves situated only a few minutes ' walk from the centre of a town which turn out to be as rewarding as Radipole Lake , another RSPB reserve . |
| 10 | Donchin , Kutas and McCarthy , ( 1977 ) asked subjects to perform either a " functional " match or a " structural " match between items presented tachistoscopically . |
| 11 | But opera , whether their texts are well-written in the conventional literary sense or not , have almost no value as plays , and their librettos make only a shadowy sense away from their music . |
| 12 | Thus our chosen methods involved both a careful observation and recording of firsthand experience and the development of second-order models . |
| 13 | Or maybe her shoulders trembled just a little also . |
| 14 | Second-year units involve both a treatment of general theories and concepts , and discussions of more concrete and practical issues such as Women . |
| 15 | The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon . |
| 16 | Though fascist candidates put forward a strong campaign in the London County Council elections of March 1937 , their six candidates for the three two-member divisions of Bethnal Green North East , Shoreditch and Limehouse were defeated and they received less than 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 17 | Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green . |
| 18 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 19 | By 1524 , thirty-eight Frenchmen comprised almost a third of the taxpayers and well over half the labourers of Hartfield hundred . |
| 20 | DES Circular 8/83 requested information on these efforts and preliminary results reported in Better Schools showed almost a complete reversal of the situation found in the first survey . |
| 21 | Table 6.4 shows that there appears to be a turning point around 1960 : before then manufacturing employment , and the broader ‘ industrial ’ employment , had been growing faster than overall employment , whereas over the period 1960–64 ( which , taken as a whole , shows a rapid growth of overall employment ) the manufacturing and industrial sectors showed only a marginal growth of employment , therefore accounting for a declining share of the total . |
| 22 | In mud wrestling both fighters wear only a jockstrap . |
| 23 | Most New Zealand rugs get quite a hammering ’ |
| 24 | Many schools devote almost a third of the allotted time for each lesson to these exercises . |
| 25 | No freehold property is mentioned in his will , but his goods , chattels and savings constituted quite a nice little nest-egg for his sons and his daughter — and was not ambition for one 's children one of the marks of a Victorian middle-class man ? |
| 26 | In this case the animals get quite a good deal , but in neither case do they contribute much to wealth . |
| 27 | If the cost is higher than your budget will stand it is possible to collaborate with one , two or even three other manufacturers to put together a bumper bundle . |
| 28 | As the atoms are introduced lesson by lesson , pupils use the cubes and dowel rods to predict about a dozen molecules . |
| 29 | Text and images handled separately A combination of the above but not a particularly helpful treatment . |
| 30 | Text and images linked Currently a common method of combining text and images in a range of database types , including CD-ROM . |