Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data General Corp is finding the transition to open systems at a time of recession extremely painful with a second quarter loss of $55m after a $48m charge for another 1,000 lay-offs : turnover was down 14% at $274m , in part because the sale of the Japanese subsidiary cut volume by $19m ; the company blamed the disappointing results on competitive pricing pressures , which have cut profits , as well as the weak worldwide economy ; the company says it continues to be very cautious about the remainder of 1992 ; AViiON sales continue to grow , but ‘ we are not satisfied with overall revenues , ’ the company declared Electronic Data Systems Corp says its graphical design system now supports Hewlett-Packard 's series 700 workstations : first deliveries are scheduled for May . |
| 2 | There was much protest from the anti-nuclear movements , and more unease because the Americans insisted on a base so near to a densely populated region with Glasgow at its heart . |
| 3 | There is no experience so uncomfortable for a nation as to run headon unawares into an axiom . |
| 4 | Such drastic tactics are of course only justifiable against a violent attack . |
| 5 | What makes a new action relevantly similar to an old one ? |
| 6 | In a smaller way after 1987 the emergence of a Scottish electorate overwhelmingly hostile to a Conservative government in power on the basis of English electoral success can sustain nationalist arguments for the general illegitimacy of the constitutional arrangements of the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | I would n't say there was much between the two teams apart from the first half here this afternoon when United , I have n't seen United dominate a side so much for a very long time , and really , I mean you were here Peter , three or four nil at half time would not have been a bad reflection on United 's performance in any way at all . |
| 8 | faulty design of a seal unacceptably sensitive to a number of in–service factors . |
| 9 | In bed he was further surprised to discover that a person capable of such mental sophistication could retain a physical side more typical of a child of eight . |
| 10 | It may not necessarily impair the reliability of data in the computer that you feed in something which will produce a result more favourable to a customer than the store holder intended . |
| 11 | But they were a good deal more important at a symbolic level . |
| 12 | In the long term , all West Germany 's Western neighbours and partners would feel a great deal more relaxed about a coming-together of the two Germanies if her immediate neighbours to the East were capitalist democracies , themselves gradually integrating into a larger Western European community . |
| 13 | The fish made little leaps and flips , as if it could feel the sea along its flank , its mouth wide open in a frantic dumb-show of breathing ; all the time , its eyes were growing dull and yellowed as old tinfoil . |
| 14 | Like many women , I find scrupulous attention to personal hygiene slightly sinister in a man . |
| 15 | The feeling that something special was about to happen spilled over into an exhibition of appreciation then unparalleled on an English racecourse : the crowd applauded the rivals as they made their way on to the track and burst into cheering as they reached it . |
| 16 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind too that as a non-taxpayer you can open an account in just your name and so enable all the interest to be declared gross . |
| 18 | I see the piece very much as a seamless , flowing whole , with very little division between its 11 sections . ’ |
| 19 | Some teas are now available with the caffeine removed and these appeal to people who find ordinary tea too much of a stimulant , perhaps disturbing their sleep at night or generally upsetting their metabolism . |
| 20 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |
| 21 | There are , of course , many factors which would operate to make insider dealing and other conflict abuse less attractive to a company and its directors . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it leaves a number of important questions unanswered : ( 1 ) Why was the early universe so hot ? ( 2 ) Why is the universe so uniform on a large scale ? |
| 23 | It is purely graphic , as are his subsequent posters , for Eureka Stockade ( 1949 ) , a turbulent scene entirely suitable for a ‘ spectacular drama of Australia 's Gold Rush ’ with its clash between miners and the colonial government , and for Where No Vultures Fly ( 1951 ) which was one of Ealing 's big box-office successes . |
| 24 | We stopped in Thimi , a village obscurely famous for a type of papier mache mask . |
| 25 | Nor is the dragon entirely inappropriate in a story relating to a king supposedly descended from a sea-monster . |
| 26 | It is nearly always female and her voice is usually heard wailing near the family 's ancestral home just prior to a person 's death . |
| 27 | The horizon was a dark terracotta colour , the top of the dying sun just visible for a few seconds before it dropped out of sight and the sky doused the remaining light like a heavy black blanket . |
| 28 | Lynn Evans says we need to make rugby more attractive as a game and get away from its beer swillinmg image . |
| 29 | Attempts to make this cost reflection more sophisticated at a later date were , however , jeopardised by internal BEA politics , which reduced initiatives to the lowest common denominator acceptable to the Area Boards . |
| 30 | There was never much conviction in the way Biggs fought , his attitude more that of a man boxing from memory rather than one attempting to resurrect a shattered career , and Mason was never persuaded that genuine peril might result from exchanges in the middle of the ring . |