Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A place is private and this offence can not be committed where only a minority group of the public are admitted . |
| 2 | Michael Meacher and Frank Field have stressed that only a limited circle of people were actively involved in formulating the industrial policy proposals , and that beyond this circle , understanding of the proposals was rather minimal . |
| 3 | If the function of the leave requirement is to weed out unarguable or vexatious cases it might be expected that only a small proportion of cases would fail at this stage . |
| 4 | Experts have forecast that even a partial ban will be a blow to Taiwan 's fishing companies , which are already facing recession and rely on driftnetting as the most profitable method . |
| 5 | It is considered that only a solicitor can act Mr reward as an agent , as was thought was the position under the 1959 Act . |
| 6 | After the medical , you are interviewed and then a series of group activities follow . |
| 7 | The Law Commission in their Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) , recommended that s15(2) ( b ) should be deleted and instead a reference to the buyer having a reasonable opportunity to compare the bulk with the sample should be inserted into s34 . |
| 8 | A muddy substratum is recommended and therefore a mixture of clay and peat is satisfactory . |
| 9 | Danny confirmed that a room had already been booked and soon a porter , who wore a badge saying , ‘ Hello my name is Peter ’ conveyed the rucksack of Mr Cornelius Murphy and his companion , Mr Howard Hughes , up to their room . |
| 10 | For example , given the heterogeneous nature of cereal production in the UK , a uniform response is not expected but rather a range of opinion amongst producers , largely dependent on the degree to which producers are committed to intensive cereal production . |
| 11 | Not as hopeless as expected but still a million miles from anything approaching relevance or interest . |
| 12 | Not as hopeless as expected but still a million miles from anything approaching relevance or interest . |
| 13 | There 's always a risk it may be hijacked but even a minimal military force accompanying it would warn the Serbs that the West meant business . |
| 14 | Now , imply that there is no stretch , as would be expected because only a pure rotation of axes has been involved . |
| 15 | ‘ Lieutenant Denholm is miscast as either a classicist or electronics officer . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a very expensive clear-out and must have come as quite a shock when the penny dropped . |
| 17 | It had come as quite a surprise to discover he was charming , very generous , and enormous fun to be with . |
| 18 | It supports conventional , XMS and EMS memory for its buffers and can be installed as either a device driver or TSR program . |
| 19 | But if the moment of performance is considered as potentially an act of composition , a different perspective can emerge . |
| 20 | The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’ |
| 21 | When it was first mooted that maybe a team of Tropical Plants staff would make for good television on Busman 's Holiday , several folk were keen to take part . |
| 22 | Solihull teachers were strongly so , but it should be recalled that only a relatively small proportion of them had had any direct experience of the process . |
| 23 | During the last years of the war it was noticed that rather a high proportion of soldiers were failing to be cured by the standard doses of M & B 693 , as the sulphonamide was called , and this was the first clue to the potential in the gonococcus for developing resistance to antibiotics . |
| 24 | It was decided that only a CPIS would meet the requirements imposed by these key issues . |
| 25 | Certainly , voluntary anonymised seroprevalence studies are discouraged because it is felt that even a 5% refusal rate may invalidate the results . |
| 26 | It was felt that maybe a stronger emphasis should be put on the need for ecumenical and inter-faith dialogue . |
| 27 | North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary has revealed that nearly a thousand cancer patients have been wrongly treated there in the past nine years . |
| 28 | Although studies have revealed that only a small subgroup of such diabetics have reduced plasma renin , in those with nephropathy both plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone tend to be decreased ( Christlieb , 1978 ) . |
| 29 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 30 | As the Conservatives themselves hesitantly took up the theme of citizenship in response to opposition challenge , it was argued that only a more flexible , compassionate style of Toryism could be their route to safety . |