Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent article in the Lancet states that a Dundee Medical School team headed by Prof. Peter Howie ( Obstetrics ) have found that babies who are breastfed for 13 weeks or longer suffer only a third of the stomach infections experienced by bottlefed babies , and have fewer respiratory infections . |
| 2 | So that just made quite a big hole in our money . |
| 3 | This meant that the USA was actually borrowing overseas , although admittedly paying rather a low rate of interest in real terms ( after allowing for inflation , the real rate of interest on US Treasury bills was 1½ per cent per annum over the years 1960–6 ) . |
| 4 | This is established in feline leukaemia , of which the greatly increased incidence in households with many cats is due mainly to exposure of kittens to large doses of a virus that usually causes merely an immunising infection . |
| 5 | It reawakened his curiosity , the fact that Blackbeard had been willing to hand them all over for getting back a wallet that otherwise contained only a letter . |
| 6 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 7 | The Information Technology Sub-Committee has sought to make a contribution , and successfully put forward a reasoned scheme for the amendment of pleadings by non-coloured laserprinter which was subsequently adopted for a trial period within the Commercial Division under . |
| 8 | Nina resumed cracking nuts , adopting exactly the same grip on the hammer her mother had demonstrated , and successfully opened quite a few . |
| 9 | The insect may be 50 yards away , and so make only a tiny image on my retina . |
| 10 | For products that are expensive and only used sporadically an unattractive product may be chosen if it has an exceptional performance as its handling characteristics will ensure that it is only used as a last resort and not used casually when other cheaper products would suffice . |
| 11 | ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 . |
| 12 | An important principle of treatment is that it should control the hypertension to an acceptable degree , be free from side-effects and not cause either an unacceptable deterioration of glycaemic control or have an adverse effect on blood lipids . |
| 13 | Can a company that is the holding company of a small group avail itself of the exemption under ss 248 and 249 of the CA 1985 , and apply s 8(a) of the standard and not prepare either a cash flow statement or a consolidated cash flow statement , whether it prepares group accounts or not ? |
| 14 | In Chalatenango , for example , the FMLN forces maintain that by preference , sexual relations should not occur outside of a matrimony ( understood in a broad sense and not implying either a civil or religious ceremony ) . |
| 15 | He wants to win with goals to spare — and not give away a goal . |
| 16 | Unless you are thinking of doing La Demande , put away your chocks and Friends and just take about a dozen quick-draws . |
| 17 | I stop my crying and just sit there a bit . |
| 18 | And just to put together a way that you can change it from a feature into a benefit , using either of those ways . |
| 19 | As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser . |
| 20 | Two years later he bought the property ‘ out of love ’ from Verger for £280,000 , and promptly set about a £3m renovation that included a new restaurant , spacious kitchens employing 19 staff and 10 luxury bedroom suites affiliated to Relais et Châteaux . |
| 21 | The centres are essentially for advice and usually offer only a limited amount , if any , of further assistance . |
| 22 | There is no satisfactory treatment for herpes simplex infections and the best that can be offered is medication to ease the symptoms and possibly cut short an attack , and advice on how to cope with the problems that recurrent herpes brings . |
| 23 | From 1919 to 1948 she was secretary for social training there , and later published privately a booklet on its history . |
| 24 | She has a good sense of humour and also shares quite a few of my interests . |
| 25 | But last March AMD stole a tenth of this market within months of launching its version of the 386 , and now claims almost a third . |
| 26 | Chris bumped his head again while snorkelling and now has rather an impressive bandage ! |
| 27 | I 'm told that Brian Summers put up some money to get the company started and now has quite a significant slice of the Supersight action . ’ |
| 28 | It soon forced the back door out , and then took away a great part of his furniture . |
| 29 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 30 | That just comes to take away five , and then take away a plus one , take away one . |