Example sentences of "[adv] an [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To refrain from an action is as much an act as actually performing it because , in both cases , the nervous system is employed . |
| 2 | In many cases , this loads down an essay with so many notes that it becomes difficult to read . |
| 3 | Vaguely she wondered why the daily woman who had been with them for years had not put in an appearance before now , and listened in vain for the cheerful clatter of tea-cups in the passage outside . |
| 4 | But that is only an expression of how the lioness is feeling within herself . |
| 5 | At first the libretto is only an outline of how the story unfolds and what part each member of the cast is supposed to play . |
| 6 | The times are only an indication of when results are due . |
| 7 | The frequency of fluent restorations is thus an indication of whether mispronunciations occurred before or after the recognition point of a word , and thus an indication of where in a word the recognition point actually occurred . |
| 8 | Steve Kay , the friend he 'd been out with , says it 's just an example of how Swindon 's becoming a dangerous place to live in . |
| 9 | Brown algae is generally an indication of quite low lighting levels and increasing the amount of light will overcome this problem . |
| 10 | This is obviously not an argument for not equalising the use of schooling . |
| 11 | Now , the number of quiffs raised is not an indication of how well that job went through the companies or erm , because quiffs could be raised quite minor things like one person forgetting to put something on a form or a form not being photocopied , or procedure changes or others |
| 12 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 13 | Not an interest in perhaps , bit more depth of thought i in surviving while they 're driving . |
| 14 | To say that the reproduction of the capitalist mode of production requires a number of conditions to be met is not an explanation of how they are met , of what happens if they are not met , of whether they can be met in ‘ functionally equivalent ways ’ , or of why these needs are met . |
| 15 | Is it not an option at least worthy of some sort of comparative retrial ? |
| 16 | Designers ' Saturday is not an exhibition of how to furnish your home , but concerns itself with interior design as a whole . |
| 17 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally . |
| 18 | Here belief in such portents is presented as being highly suspect , and possibly an excuse for more sordid political ends . |
| 19 | It 's not an obvious cumulative line through O level , it 's more an impression of probably things that they will come across over the next seven years just to transmit the fun and the excitement . |
| 20 | It is quite remarkable that from so early an age with so short a track record he should have inspired such an industry of interest . |
| 21 | ‘ This is excellent , lad , and I do believe that this exercise is having a beneficial side-effect , namely an improvement in both your grammar and the general ordering of your still-immature intellect . |
| 22 | As a youngster Kylie had proved to be a wizard with a needle — amazing friends by being able to run up an outfit in under two hours . |
| 23 | To build up an impression of how metal use developed , many and various artefacts covering a long time span need to be examined . |
| 24 | Then using cheque books and cheque cards he began a ‘ sting ’ on the bank running up an overdraft of just under £6,500 . |
| 25 | It seems to have formed through the successive accretion of continental and island arc fragments ( see Section 3.6 ) from then until the middle Cretaceous and at the time of its collision with the Indian Plate it was probably an area of relatively warm and weak lithosphere . |
| 26 | This is more evidence for the claim that you get a verb phrase in a sentence erm , but it introduces , er it 's also an example of how you can account for grammatical phenomena in terms of er structural relations in sentences and large expressions . |
| 27 | It gives us also an indication of where those flows went . |
| 28 | To make a contribution towards this end requires not only knowledge of alternatives and commitment to putting them into practice but also an understanding of how social policy is made and implemented . |
| 29 | If similar figures were applied to man , then clearly an increase of only 43% in liver protein synthesis would not account for the reported increases in whole body protein synthesis . |
| 30 | Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action . |