Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But maybe he thinks Hollywood is less the big break he needs and more a kind of career prat fall . |
| 2 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 3 | She also assumes that once a woman marries and has children she is financially provided for . |
| 4 | Next the program or event that you are trying to time occurs and then a very similar line records the time when it comes to and end . |
| 5 | This shows that even a single symptom ( regularisation errors in reading aloud ) can arise in different ways in different patients . |
| 6 | The commission says evidence shows that even a modest toll of 1.5 pence a mile for cars and 4.5 pence for lorries could cause one tenth of motorway traffic to divert to other roads . |
| 7 | Research shows that over a third of people in pain get relief from inert tablets that they believe to be painkillers . |
| 8 | Which shows that perhaps a misindica In this situation perhaps the men are seeking agreement rather than the women are , because the women seem to be doing it to actually show concern , rather than to seek agreement , which does n't Turns a lot of the traditional thing about tag questions on it head . |
| 9 | Our survey panel shows that about a quarter of the electorate thought BBC-TV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government , though rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |
| 10 | Data gathered from 300,000 women in 44 developing countries shows that about a third of married women in the developing world are now using modern family planning methods . |
| 11 | ( 1986 ) shows that only an estimated 6 per cent of such offences were reported to the police . |
| 12 | The report shows that almost a quarter of land protected as Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) , home to much of the country 's wildlife , are suffering acidification damage . |
| 13 | Theodore 's career reveals that even a good bishop could be powerless in a city where there were too many other interests . |
| 14 | Concern exists that once a threshold of a certain concentration of chlorine in the Arctic stratosphere has been passed , a large Arctic ozone hole will become a regular spring feature which will grow and deepen annually to affect the highly populated regions of northern Europe . |
| 15 | COMPUTER users , both professional and amateur , dread power cuts because even a short interruption can lose all the data in the machine 's memory . |
| 16 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |
| 17 | But the actual letter survives and only a mind predisposed to suspect the sender could think it pompous : ‘ After the most careful consideration I have decided , if you are willing that I should do so , to recommend your name for the succession to the see of Durham . ’ |
| 18 | Beluga whales emit distress calls when even a conventional icebreaker is 80 k ( 50 miles ) away , and flee when such vessels approach within 40 k ( 25 miles ) . |
| 19 | This ensures that even a detailed discussion of the evidence is selective . |
| 20 | For the authorities , it ensures that only a relatively sanitized version of events gets out ; for the authors , it means that they do not have to perjure themselves , and has the additional benefit that the gaps — and consequently the restraints under which they have had to work — are obvious to their readers . |
| 21 | In one small group Mrs M finds that alcohol helps her forget the noises and is in real danger of ‘ taking to the bottle ’ , whereas Mrs N finds that even a thimbleful of alcohol increases the head noises dramatically . |
| 22 | A National Consumer Council report of a MORI survey of 2,005 consumers in March finds that almost a third of the population is unhappy with local authority services . |
| 23 | Many dreams are so bizarre that they seem inexplicable and it follows that only a medically qualified expert could penetrate the machinations of the subconscious mind which produced them . |
| 24 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |
| 25 | The general nature of the Part XV code indicates that only an individual ( as opposed to a corporate body ) can be a settlor . |
| 26 | So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't |
| 27 | The hot-rod 's flexible definition means that even a car straight from Chrysler 's factory might appeal to the fashion-conscious . |
| 28 | Kelsen further holds , in one of his most mysterious doctrines , that the primacy of the principle of delegation means that even a determination outside the frame is valid and binding unless and until set aside by a higher decision . |
| 29 | This unpalatable but , alas , essentially valid simile means that once an especially vile rumour has been launched there is all too little the wretched victim can do about it . |
| 30 | The view of the Pleiades is much more breathtaking with my 7 × 50 binoculars than with the lowest power I can use on my large reflector , because the small field of view with the telescope means that only a small part of the cluster can be seen at any one time . |