Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Second-year units involve both a treatment of general theories and concepts , and discussions of more concrete and practical issues such as Women . |
| 4 | The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In mud wrestling both fighters wear only a jockstrap . |
| 7 | Most New Zealand rugs get quite a hammering ’ |
| 8 | Many schools devote almost a third of the allotted time for each lesson to these exercises . |
| 9 | In this case the animals get quite a good deal , but in neither case do they contribute much to wealth . |
| 10 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 11 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 12 | If such doubts exist then an investigation is carried out over a maximum of four months to determine whether the merger should be prohibited or not . |
| 13 | Strapping lads cast away a problem |
| 14 | A Commission survey has shown that walkers have only a one-in-3 chance of being able to complete any 2 mile walk . |
| 15 | But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them . |
| 16 | I 'm afraid she has a most irreverent attitude — and some of our gentlemen have quite a wide circle of acquaintances , so of course we must be able to offer complete discretion … ’ |
| 17 | This heading comprises the vast majority of commercial contracts , where the parties have presumably an equality of bargaining power and have freely entered into properly negotiated contracts . |
| 18 | Real travellers will have discovered that most taxi drivers have only a cursory grasp of English so it may come as a surprise to learn that foreign cabbies ‘ drive at breakneck speed ’ while talking eloquently of ‘ local proverbs and giving handy hints about what to buy in the local market . ’ |
| 19 | Unfortunately it may not be this World Cup , for the Scots have just a minuscule chance of qualifying . |
| 20 | To take the barbel in the Hampshire Avon as an example , some Middle Avon fisheries contain a small population of big fish and others like the Severals have quite a number to go for . |
| 21 | Although Serb lines are within range of Bosnian artillery on nearby Igman mountain , the Bosnians have only a few tanks and not much ammunition . |
| 22 | Their maps show clearly an increased propensity for landsliding in the north and west of the UK . |
| 23 | However , too often , their attitudes reveal only a narrowness of mind and a sad lack of common humanity , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Will all members with unpaid subscriptions please forward a remittance in the very near future . |
| 25 | All the uses of need and dare as full modal auxiliaries involve therefore a non-assertive quality whereby the needing or daring are not asserted but denied , questioned , conceded , represented as mere possibilities rather than as real events . |
| 26 | Pluralists provide only a partial perspective on the inactivity of certain interests and groups . |
| 27 | The Defendants put forward a two part argument : |
| 28 | In the broadest terms , it has been concerned with one aspect of youth history : how and why , and with what consequences for age relations , middle-class reformers put together a number of images of working-class adolescents . |
| 29 | As children grow up , and the pedal bike becomes the motorbike , they have areas to test their skills , where tumbles cause only a bruise or a tear . |
| 30 | Texts put forth a gospel of real manhood and real womanhood . |