Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits on a little wooden bench , and seems to be engaged in animated conversation with the empty space beside her . |
| 2 | His picture sits on a little wooden cabinet in the lounge , a young man wearing a denim jacket and a hint of a smile . |
| 3 | In this context , too , it is important to realize that law plays only a relatively minor role in regulating the exercise of government functions . |
| 4 | It has annually a very gay season during the days of the Highland games , when balls are held . |
| 5 | If this is indeed the case , he has obviously a very wide range of choices available to him . |
| 6 | In any event , Girobank has only a broadly similar number of private customers to those with the Co-op Bank , and if anything perhaps rather less money available for lending to them . |
| 7 | Unlike industry rivals such as Guinness , Highland has only a relatively small export business — about a third of its sales . |
| 8 | When compared to the surface area of the undergravel filter this type of filter has only a very small , and therefore restricted filtering area , usually made of sponge , and would need very regular attention if employed in the large cichlid community tank . |
| 9 | The tank is unfiltered but contains only a very few fish at any one time . |
| 10 | Although the BPVT is a language test , it covers only a relatively narrow range of strictly linguistic abilities — that is , comprehension of single vocabulary items . |
| 11 | The report which gives such a gloomy view of the state of physics ( Comment , 24 February , p 502 ; This Week , 3 February , p 287 ) covers only a very small part of physics . |
| 12 | Zimbabwe has both a more developed industrial base and a more extensive commercial farming sector . |
| 13 | Street Scene is the climax of this quest , an opera that speaks with the accents of Broadway , but which holds up a typically critical and compassionate mirror to the face of his adopted city . |
| 14 | We read , for instance , that Spalding ‘ has now a very neat and generally modern appearance , having more than doubled its population and buildings since 1811 , and most of its ancient houses and public buildings have been rebuilt ; many of them during the last twenty-five years ’ . |
| 15 | The building industry has today an appreciably larger number of men at work than in the years immediately before 1939 , though probably rather a smaller percentage of the total are building new houses . |
| 16 | Wimsatt 's use of the term ‘ iconic ’ ( and the title of The Verbal Icon ) derives from Morris 's distinction ( 1971 : 37 ) between the ‘ iconic ’ and the ‘ symbolic ’ sign ; the former is that which ‘ characterizes … by exhibiting in itself the properties of an object ’ , the latter that which does not do so , but has instead a purely conventional relationship with the object that it designates . |
| 17 | I mean Neville Brody 's work , I think maybe goes just a little deeper than just a , you know , flourish , but I am not sure where he 's going with it . |
| 18 | How different is this deep breathing from the shallow , uncontrolled breathing which uses only a very small part of the lungs . |
| 19 | Its distinguishing feature is that it uses only a very few basic operators — typically just one , called modus ponens , or some equivalent — which are very well understood and reliable . |
| 20 | It was Fred Wilton who devised the theory that if carp were offered HNV baits over a long enough period , i.e. through extensive pre-baiting , they would eventually recognise that they were good for them , and seek out these baits in preference to low protein types such as bread , worms , potatoes or , indeed , even natural food . |
| 21 | Grammatical change occurs over a much longer time scale than lexical change . |
| 22 | Apparently Tom DiCillo cut his cinematic teeth working with Jim Jarmusch , and his directorial debut Johnny Suede certainly shows signs of the latter 's influence , as it doodles out a familiarly minimal comedy around a cool fool who learns the limits of his own hip moves . |
| 23 | Moreover , it is a ‘ spectre ’ which hangs over a predominantly deprived urban ‘ underclass ’ of unqualified , unskilled and unemployed young adults . |
| 24 | There exists however a very great number of variant routes on the numerous well defined walking paths that make this area a great favourite with Swiss visitors who enjoy walking holidays off the beaten track . |
| 25 | Another 6a is Afin que nul ne meure , which goes up a very dramatic section of cliff to the right of the famous Pichenibule . |
| 26 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 27 | SIR — Your headline ‘ Kohl criticises Turkey ’ ( April 3 ) takes on a rather special meaning for those who realise that kohl in German means cabbage . |
| 28 | Further on , the idea of being a gentleman takes on a very hard and unromantic shape . |
| 29 | Swanning around takes on a very different meaning in the American art and antiques market . |
| 30 | Dasbabu is still the boss in Bhagyanagar but nowadays takes on a more laid-back attitude to village affairs . |