Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Metro does , however , have a few little problems ; the ghastly coloured light with which the dash is illuminated , a sort of blood-shot red ; some quite nasty , outdated body styling which involves add-on , red-striped plastic strips down the sides and a central locking system which emitted a noise rather like a very small horse coughing . |
| 2 | Indeed , in some ways the EDC treaty went beyond the ECSC in that Article 38 , which had been included at the insistence of Italy , required the Common Assembly to study ways of establishing federal institutions along with a popularly elected legislature . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly the ideal solutions would be ( I ) preservation of significant β-cell function by selectively suppressing immunological destruction permitting at least some degree of physiological glucose homeostasis or ( 2 ) a miniature insulin pump that would infuse insulin subcutaneously , regulated by a sensor indicating the tissue fluid glucose level together with a suitably programmed microprocessor system . |
| 4 | That this was a part only of a very much broader problem was cheerfully con-ceded from the beginning ; it happened to be the project 's brief and that was that . |
| 5 | In Out and Such one discourse is brought to bear on another through metaphor ; in Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon the same type of metaphor is used to bring a number of discourses together in an increasingly interrogative conjunction . |
| 6 | It should be sheltered from the wind and should catch the sun and should be easily accessible to the building perhaps by a partially covered or glazed canopy : planting should be simple , bold and easily maintained , with more variable and small scale flowers and herbs being grown and planted so they can be changed seasonally . |
| 7 | People who knocked about the revolutionary left at the time still remember Big Flame fondly as a fundamentally nice organization . |
| 8 | It might be added that when text is input for phonological analysis these problems are if anything magnified , and for these purely practical reasons it was possible in , for example , the Belfast project , to use computers only in a very limited way for text processing ( as opposed to computation , where various statistical packages were extensively used ) . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're aw' the same , ’ Isa lifted her knitting out the carrier together with a badly printed pattern clipped from a copy of The People 's Friend that she had found on the train to Wemyss Bay . |
| 10 | The only bright spot was when Diana decided to give one of her presents away to a rather irascible nightwatchman . |
| 11 | Because we want to take as many voluntary redundancies and early retirements as possible , and with employee turnover still at a relatively high six per cent per year , we can not say at present just where and when the jobs will go . |
| 12 | It has a thirty-five-foot living-room , with — mouth open — ’ Vitor ordered , and gave her another piece of chocolate ‘ — a flight of three steps up to a generously sized dining area . |
| 13 | If an employee trades up to a more expensive model and the employer makes a charge , an output tax liability arises on the value of that charge , except where the employee pays by way of deduction from gross salary . |
| 14 | One research scientist , a friend of mine said that the setting up of a particularly apt experiment has lead him to a sense of the beautiful . |
| 15 | The proposal , unveiled in April , was initially investigated by the Office of Fair Trading and then referred to the MMC three months later for a more detailed probe . |
| 16 | His report came six months later in an altogether typical form . |
| 17 | That would probably do little to bring so-called advances on royalties back to a more sensible level , but it might give the publisher some added stability , and therefore a greater incentive to put sustained effort into an author 's career . |
| 18 | You talk about the inevitable ; as I see it , the inevitable is that you will have to move your mainly large-animal practice out into a more rural area , say , ten or twelve miles away . |
| 19 | At last , in an effort to bring her mind back to an even keel , she went to the office , where she discovered a pile of farm accounts had been left on the desk . |
| 20 | But at least it had the effect of setting Lucy 's mind back on a more even keel , and she worked steadily until she was disturbed by Doreen sweeping into the office . |
| 21 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 22 | In education such a policy would improve performance indicators immediately as a much higher percentage of youngsters would then achieve three or more Highers and gain entrance to university ; success all round ! |
| 23 | First , that any attempt to implement a Marxist economic programme even on a relatively modest scale in a country which still has a large degree of freedom is doomed to catastrophe . |
| 24 | In addition to these direct effects , InsP 3 may stimulate calcium entry indirectly through a more complex mechanism involving the ER . |
| 25 | The Satellite itself proved to be the most successful British circuit for some time and was the clearest indication yet of an ever strengthening base of players beginning to make international progress . |
| 26 | On a wind and rain lashed Rifle Park , Wray put the home side ahead with a well struck penalty into the wind . |
| 27 | Thanks again for a really useful publication , M. |
| 28 | Nobody trusts the Trusts , it seems , except the Conservatives and I fear that we 're only a General Election away from a fully privatised Health Service . |
| 29 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
| 30 | Rachaela turned the chicken on to a very low light . |