Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that [ J. ] could inhale vomit during either a nasogastric feed or an epileptic fit . |
| 2 | It is possible that [ J. ] could inhale vomit during either a nasogastric feed or an epileptic fit . |
| 3 | This type of sampling has given rise to quite a lot of criticism when used for political poll surveys . |
| 4 | This is true even when those sites which provide evidence for only a small number of mosaics are included . |
| 5 | Had no such provision been made , and had it merely been left to the initiative of backbenchers to keep an eye on instruments tabled , it is highly probable that many instruments would become or remain law with never a critical eye being cast over them . |
| 6 | As he pointed out to me , the port and other government officials , also the navy and military personnel , came and went , generally posted south for only a short period , whereas he was a permanent fixture . |
| 7 | Breach of any of the provisions of the Factories Act 1961 may give rise to either a civil action which may be initiated by an employee for breach of statutory duty , or criminal proceedings in the magistrate 's court initiated by the Factory Inspectorate . |
| 8 | In certain situations a single set of facts and circumstances may give rise to both a civil claim and a criminal prosecution . |
| 9 | Roman sculptors appear to have made use of only a few set measuring points , which sometimes survive , raised off the surface like pimples . |
| 10 | This is in contrast with its predecessor ( Logogen Theory ) which assumes activation of only a single lexical item . |
| 11 | If you have made cloth with quite a coarsely textured yarn then the resulting quality is possibly rather stiff . |
| 12 | The exception had become the rule ; nearly half the counties had lost their largest urban centres ; the division between rural and urban local government had hardened in a form which caused controversy for nearly a century , and which is still reflected in the current structure ( Hampton 1966:464 — 5 ) . |
| 13 | Usually they 're silly things were you have n't quite clipped in correctly to the rope and suddenly , zap , you realise you 've missed death by only a hair 's breadth . |
| 14 | you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . |
| 15 | Thus the Baileys ' garden was L-shaped , and the remaining portion of Tullivers ' land , a mere quarter of an acre , allowed room for only a lawn , a few mature lilac and may trees and the flower border which had been the Admiral 's particular pride . |
| 16 | Some such processes can be found by trial and error or by simply paying attention to only a few pieces . |
| 17 | According to government estimates , the Soufriere geothermal project could potentially provide electricity for around a quarter of the island 's population and saved about US$250 million in foreign exchange over a 30-year period . |
| 18 | For example , to increase working and manoeuvring space in an existing work triangle you could set up a second food preparation or cooking area with perhaps a microwave oven outside your main work area . |
| 19 | First , in the classroom the teacher is giving recognition to only a part of themselves , and a failing one at that when he concentrates on schoolwork . |
| 20 | And provided work for quite a lot of men . |
| 21 | Mark Little is Joe Mangle 's alter ego , the real-life actor who was doing comedy for nearly a decade before Neighbours . |
| 22 | The Study Group at one stage con-templated the inclusion of a provision by which the lessor 's title would have priority against even a bona fide purchaser from the lessee . |
| 23 | Neither case is concerned at all with the position where a child has been stillborn as a result of a third party 's negligence or has , as a result of such negligence , survived birth for only a minimal period . |
| 24 | If you are equally worried about giving birth in both a hospital and at home you might prefer something in the middle : Some hospitals allow women to use water pools in the labour ward and you can arrange for your GP to help with the birth rather than hospital doctors . |
| 25 | At Debenham there was a lot of extra curricular activities on offer like inter house competitions , Sports days , I took part in quite a few activities like Sports days , assemblies and some of the interhouse competitions like design a Christmas card and basket ball , I also went to a club on Friday lunch times . |
| 26 | He took advantage of both a feudal and a monarchical position , treating Frederick as a vassal of the papacy as well as emphasizing his papal rights of protecting a minor . |
| 27 | They also acknowledged that operators had initially delayed taking action for nearly an hour , in the belief that a gauge which showed an increase in radioactivity in the secondary system might be giving false readings . |
| 28 | Only the Labour party could plan to cripple industry with both a national minimum wage and substantial tax increases when trading conditions are so difficult . |
| 29 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 30 | From our Cowley office proceed East for approx. a quarter of a mile taking the second right into Howard Street . |