Example sentences of "a thorough " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has the added value of being firmly rooted in a thorough understanding of technique . |
| 2 | Ensure that cutlery which has been cleaned using chemicals gets a thorough washing before going back into the dining room . |
| 3 | Also try to receive a thorough briefing from an experienced instructor or pilot who has flown the type in question . |
| 4 | The doctor will also give you a thorough health check , and talk to you about where to have your baby , and how to look after yourself until the birth . |
| 5 | Kent Coast travellers saw their Mark 1 based Class 41 1 4-CEPS taken to BREL Swindon ( the last major coach contract before the works closed ) for a thorough facelift that also included new windows and double glazing . |
| 6 | The programme might have said more about technique — what , at plectrum level , made him tangibly different from the folk-group strummer - but was a thorough biography and survived the expressive limitations of rock anecdotage : ‘ His attack to a guitar was , oh , something else … ‘ |
| 7 | Peter Brooke , the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , said no major changes would be made to the UDR , in spite of the demands from the Irish government for a thorough review of its role . |
| 8 | A lot of the points discussed had also been considered by the cricket committee and we shall now make a thorough investigation . ’ |
| 9 | Henry Cecil 's colt proved himself a thorough stayer when running on strongly at the end of the 1 ¾ miles of the St Leger on rain-softened ground at Ayr , but the Champion is run over half a mile less . |
| 10 | If he or she does n't act for a number of successful bands , he or she is unlikely to have a thorough understanding of accounting in the music business . |
| 11 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 12 | A thorough and detailed biography of Arthur Henderson is also badly needed ; the recent short studies by F. M. Leventhal and Chris Wrigley add little , at least in so far as the events of 1931 are concerned . |
| 13 | The German Ideology , 1846 The first book where Marx and Engels include in their political writings a thorough analysis of the evolution of society and of pre-capitalist social formations is The German Ideology . |
| 14 | The advantage of employing a specialist firm is that its tradesmen are more likely to be well trained and experienced in this field of building preservation , with a thorough and successful job being a more certain result . |
| 15 | His decision to purchase the mill heralded the start of a thorough and extensive process of restoration . |
| 16 | There are complex legal matters involved which need the experienced guiding hand of a good solicitor who will do a thorough job and we are able to recommend excellent local ones experienced in the area . |
| 17 | Scores of other nonsenses would come to light if the Bush administration demanded a thorough overhaul of the country 's anti-competitive laws and practices . |
| 18 | This courageous book , written in Russia a year after the accident and now published in English , is a thorough and passionate condemnation of the Soviet way of doing things . |
| 19 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 20 | Although they constitute a thorough attack on Descartes 's rationalism , Gassendi 's empiricism is developed elsewhere . |
| 21 | Significantly , although this train is named after a bard who loved the towns and villages of East Anglia , a thorough search of his complete oeuvre fails to come up with a single reference to Lowestoft . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I 'll go out with the next patrol and give these marshalling yards a thorough going over . ’ |
| 23 | If he hurried he could easily cycle to the barrow , make a thorough search , and be back in his bed before the household started to stir at 7 . |
| 24 | He was impressed by the variety , originality and eclecticism of Nonconformist architecture : ‘ The grateful lesson , which , as the preceding [ discussion ] obviously shows , English Nonconformist architecture has given architects , serves as a means of liberation which , from the architectural point of view , deserves a thorough consideration . ’ |
| 25 | Since then , Robert and his wife Nicola have carried out a thorough and sympathetic restoration . |
| 26 | It is obvious ( or should be ) that an influx of hungry , semi-strangled and homeless urban foxes into a rural area will make a thorough mess of the local ecosystem . |
| 27 | The row overshadowed the second day of Russia 's Congress of People 's Deputies , where Mr Yeltsin escaped the rough ride that hard-liners had threatened as he delivered a thorough , if lacklustre , report on economic reform . |
| 28 | The row overshadowed the second day of Russia 's Congress of People 's Deputies where Mr Yeltsin escaped the rough ride that hardliners had threatened as he delivered a thorough , if lacklustre , report on economic reform . |
| 29 | The row overshadowed the second day of Russia 's Congress of People 's Deputies , where Mr Yeltsin escaped the rough ride that hardliners had threatened as he delivered a thorough , if lacklustre , report on economic reform . |
| 30 | Braun has also overseen a thorough examination of all the corporate processes and product lines . |