Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the new system to be introduced properly involves a change of constitution and a further vote . |
| 2 | erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same . |
| 3 | It amounts to an agreement by Member States not to employ their veto to prevent a majority decision , and effectively represents a reversal of the Luxembourg Compromise . |
| 4 | The Bavarian position appears untenable , as the matter is surely a civil one and Article 13 expressly prohibits a refusal based on the ground that the internal law of the state of destination would not permit the action on which the application was based . |
| 5 | Forget the old adage about non-stop bicycling ; the growing Community badly needs a decade of constitutional calm . |
| 6 | — Andrew Crisp from Winchester , during economic policy debate ‘ Any party that has Dennis Skinner as its chairman and Neil Kinnock as leader , badly needs a hero . ’ |
| 7 | Aid policy badly needs a rethink |
| 8 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 9 | Management control thereby has a tendency to become more centralized . |
| 10 | For that investment the member gets a stake in the club and in the freehold , and thereby has a say in how it is run . |
| 11 | He deftly drops a charge next to it and returns the vehicle . |
| 12 | Rarely has a film given me such a warm glow . |
| 13 | Rarely has a government been so hard-put to explain why a bill will benefit Britain . |
| 14 | Weeell , to our knowledge , no-one else quite sums up the paper over the past ten or so years — rarely has a pop personage and his relationship with a music paper produced so many sparks , so much debate , so much excellent copy , and ( ahem ) so many yards of Angst . |
| 15 | And herein lies a problem . |
| 16 | Herein lies a problem . |
| 17 | Herein lies a paradox for the classical view . |
| 18 | Herein lies a paradox : for in examining " micro " variables ( for example , two variant pronunciations of the vowel sound of house ) , variationists draw conclusions about the social stratification of a whole speech community ; whereas by focusing on the " macro " parameters of language choice and sequentiality in turn-taking , researchers like Auer draw conclusions about the motivation for an individual linguistic event — a particular code switch in a particular conversation . |
| 19 | somewhere wants a card from you . |
| 20 | Unless the solicitor is prepared to act without charge , at the point at which the client most needs a lawyer , the lawyer apparently abandons the case . |
| 21 | They follow two lines : either my child commands me to do something , and if I do n't , she insists , and eventually has a tantrum ; |
| 22 | The passengers were saddened by the thought that they were unlikely to see their native land again but probably neither before nor since has a group of people set out with more determination to establish a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education . |
| 23 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 24 | No , because right has a tummy bug this week and she did n't phone or nothing like to say I do n't wan na phone Margaret she do n't wan na know so I do n't know why you 're bugging her for ! |
| 25 | Once detected , the bird swiftly chisels a hole and then unreels its enormously long tongue . |
| 26 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 27 | The user merely supplies a title for the product and LIFESPAN allocates a product identifier to it . |
| 28 | Once bitten twice shy , and a man only tackles a hell-cat once in his life . ’ |
| 29 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 30 | But , as Heydon says , judges attach little significance to the point and it really only plays a part if , as in Dickson 's case , one side refuses to adduce any evidence of reasonableness at all . |