Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , our most recent results have shown that ( 1 ) the differential perspective cues described here also affect the perceived absolute distance to the surface ( such that a surface containing perspective cues appropriate for near viewing is perceived to be closer to the observer ) , and ( 2 ) the shape of the apparent fronto-parallel surface systematically varies with the differential vertical perspective cues generated by surfaces at different absolute distances from the observer , as Helmholtz informally demonstrated over a hundred years ago . |
| 2 | Maggie only stopped about an hour this morning , she 's not feeling well . |
| 3 | Why does Elsbeth not bring forth a child ? |
| 4 | Play was end to end in the first half , but catching Bicester cold after a player had been down injured for some time , Wantage took the lead on thirty five minutes , when Andy Cooper brilliantly volleyed home a touch on from Jamie Alexander for a one nil half time lead . |
| 5 | However Lord Denning MR also put forward an alternative test . |
| 6 | The raw data received from Landsat often use only a portion of the 0–255 range available in an eight-plane memory bank , so that the image appearing on the screen is either too dark or too light . |
| 7 | The formation of Nato therefore had only a marginal effect , at first , on the pre-existing Anglo-American defence relationship . |
| 8 | THE MOUNTING death toll from sectarian violence in Ulster yesterday brought forth a chorus of condemnation in Britain and Ireland . |
| 9 | Kennedy immediately called together a special Executive Committee ( the " Ex Comm " ) to advice him on the handling of the crisis . |
| 10 | ICL now has quite an array of Unixes running on its systems , from a Unix System Labs-derived , Sun Microsystems Inc SunOS-compatible Unix SVR4 on its Sparc-based DRS6000 series , to USL Unix SVR4 on the Intel DRS3000 servers , down to this latest shrink-wrapped offering and SCO stuff at the low-end . |
| 11 | But recently , the City of Westminster successfully prosecuted both an owner and builder , who had stripped out large quantities of fine panelling from an early eighteenth-century house in Soho , on a total of no less than fourteen charges . |
| 12 | Noel Wilson 's chance on Flap Jack looked dim with two to jump in the Bramham Moor 's Restricted , with G Derek still going strongly a dozen lengths ahead . |
| 13 | THE doctor who treated Hillsborough coma victim Tony Bland yesterday swept aside a priest 's pledge to bring a private prosecution against him for murder . |
| 14 | Steve O'Shaughnessy weakly headed away a left wing cross to Lee Duxbury who powered a shot goalwards . |
| 15 | Steve O'Shaughnessy weakly headed away a left wing cross to Lee Duxbury who powered a shot goalwards . |
| 16 | Mrs Hellyer only came once a week and though Dad did some of the housework , shuffling round in the mornings and yawning , almost everything had a skin of dust over it and smelt mouldy , like furniture stored in an attic . |
| 17 | Each manufacturing worker in Britain still produces roughly a third less than his rival in America , Japan or West Germany . |
| 18 | Nor is it even very suggestive ; it provides no clues as to why this first phase of class struggle is so much more advanced in Italy ( where the Communist PCI regularly obtains almost a third of the popular vote ) compared with the United States ( where a socialist party hardly exists ) . |
| 19 | Most of the characterization is effected by the recitative , which varies from the driest quick quasi-parlando — Monteverdi sometimes writes only a single sustained note to carry eight or nine syllables — to actual melody , with every nuance between and naturally plenty of scope for his stile concitato . |
| 20 | TOKYO politely turned aside an invitation from Peking for Emperor Akihito to visit China yesterday as hostility from the past continued to complicate bilateral ties . |
| 21 | Angela soon had quite a bright idea . |
| 22 | ‘ I wanted off to Northampton in April and Darlington still had about a third of the season to play . |
| 23 | Yet software house Microsoft recently caused quite a stir in computer circles by announcing that it is using real people , working for real companies , to test its software products . |
| 24 | Whether guilty of an offence or not , could BT lightly sweep aside a from the bench . |
| 25 | In an article called ‘ Woman 's Time ’ , the philosopher and critic Julia Kristeva once put forward a three-stage model of feminism . |
| 26 | ‘ Charlie usually brought home a bit over twenty pounds a week . |
| 27 | The worrying thing was that at no time did Leeds actually put together a great move which tore Sunderland apart . |