Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any mother knows that it takes more than one adult to cope properly with even a single child . |
| 2 | Such a move was clearly designed only to better a bad situation rather than remedy it completely , since it would be expected that the availability of refined sugar would be subject to the same seasonal fluctuations as availability of gur , and there is little reason to suspect that refined sugar was more readily available than the ( unrefined ) gur . |
| 3 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 4 | A series of short pitches , to avoid rope drag , zigzagged upwards to below a huge overhang , where a traverse left teetered to a safe , sunless stance overlooking the north face . |
| 5 | Initial domiciliary assessments are carried out by either a medical or a non-medical team member by using a semistructured schedule that guides them through the various clinical , functional , social , and other components of the assessment . |
| 6 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
| 7 | After purification treatment , the process water can be stored in elevated tanks and fed by gravity to the machine , or it can be pumped directly with only a small balancing tank overhead . |
| 8 | By 1660 , the mill had been built up to quite a substantial and sophisticated concern , now housing three pairs of fulling stocks , dye houses and shearing and warping rooms . |
| 9 | Them drama people came up with quite a good id couple of good ideas . |
| 10 | And it is a big let-down when they fizzle out with only a snap , crackle and pop . |
| 11 | The story of how such a principle was accepted by a war-time coalition government and why it was implemented in the form that it was in advance of all the other social security changes , is a useful illustration of the ways in which particular problems gain the attention of governments and how one social policy can be seen and adopted as at least a partial solution to those problems . |
| 12 | Although set up fairly soon after the coordinating committee , the Inservice Panel got off to rather a slow start , with its early meetings being characterised by fairly unstructured discussion of how it might function and what it might aim to achieve . |
| 13 | She wondered at her own weakness in craving for a man who had professed his love for her and made her with child , only to walk away without even a backward glance . |
| 14 | But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes . |
| 15 | We have , we have had that form kicking around for quite a long time and it 's never really been |
| 16 | Yes , your conclusion is based surely on rather a small sample — two classes from one school ? |
| 17 | The lateral extensions of its body enable it to remain aloft with only a small expenditure of energy using the water for support as gliders use air . |
| 18 | Have you ever looked at a coke fire ? the coke fire has been banked up with only a limited supply of air . |
| 19 | Like many staunch , working class families , the Gedges were keen on discipline and Gedge was brought up in quite a rigid environment . |
| 20 | Short , bespectacled Mansell scrambled out with only a slight head injury . |
| 21 | That went on for quite a long time |
| 22 | The door was solid and would hold up for quite a long time . |
| 23 | A cheer went up with only a single shout of ‘ Shame ! ’ — and recognizing defeat , Will turned and fled without carrying out his threat . |
| 24 | Now if we put these two parameters on here , we end up with only a small proportion of patients who actually have high pressure and low flow . |
| 25 | As the paper is wet the colour merges and falls and sometimes I end up with quite a nice fusion of colours which I then leave to dry thoroughly . |
| 26 | So then you know , you 've you end up with quite a nice er lawn oh right ! |
| 27 | It is still worthwhile building up a stock of components though , and most electronics hobbyists end up with quite a large store of components after a few years . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the Communist Party , driven by the furious pace of events , brought forward to tomorrow a crucial party congress to debate its future . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the Communist Party , driven by the furious pace of events , brought forward to tomorrow a crucial party congress to debate its future . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the Communist Party , driven by the furious pace of events , brought forward to tomorrow a crucial party congress to debate its future . |