Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little goes that way and then a very small amount goes that way . |
| 2 | He was subsequently appointed director , Reprocessing Engineering Division , and became technical director and also a main board member in 1984 . |
| 3 | Councillor Sandra Plummer from Camden and the Socialist Lesbian Group , speaking in one of the plenary sessions , argued that socialists have got to stop seeing lesbian liberation as just a civil liberties issue . |
| 4 | I 'll probably buy some sweets and probably a , a a paperback horror or something . |
| 5 | About four in 10 companies provide rented accommodation but only a fifth provide a housing allowance . |
| 6 | The reports have attracted considerable publicity although only a tiny proportion of the reports have been debated in the House . |
| 7 | ‘ I want more waterfalls and perhaps a bridge . ’ |
| 8 | Already the Society has 29 priests and over a hundred seminarians . |
| 9 | There are very pressured days , says Jackie , when she has several visits as well a clinic , when she goes up every front path praying both mum and babe will be problem-free . |
| 10 | Their transnational linkages created new problems but also a new role and function for government ( 1987 : p. 193 ) . |
| 11 | In fact it soon found out , since by the end of July 1922 the ARA was having to feed 822,000 children and over a million adults in the Ukraine . |
| 12 | They changed to a strategy-management mode in which each of the business heads met with the entire executive board once a year to define strategic objectives and once a year to establish a budget . |
| 13 | I 'd seen premature babies but never a baby that small . |
| 14 | If there was not much coherent intellectual opposition to the left 's proposals , this by no means signified tacit support but rather a belief that the pressure of ‘ realities ’ in government would soon dispel the fancies of opposition . |
| 15 | FISH THE ISLANDS AND BACKWATERS , FISH THOSE INACCESSIBLE SPOTS , ENJOY THAT MOBILITY THAT ONLY A CRUISER AND DINGHIES CAN GIVE YOU . |
| 16 | I 've got odd days and then a six week block . |
| 17 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 18 | You 've got the situation where you 've got remote gears , and you 've got a situation where you , sorry , remote valves , and you 've got a situation when you 've got standard valves and also a small |
| 19 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 20 | Faye had had two miscarriages and now a threat hung over this pregnancy as well . |
| 21 | The principle of deduction is incorporated by seeing empirical investigation as primarily a procedure for testing theories through hypotheses deduced from the theory itself . |
| 22 | The Labour councils sought to use low fares as both a part of their overall planning policies and a means of redistributing income in favour of lower income groups . |
| 23 | Although the responses were generally supportive , ‘ practically everybody expressed some reservations and about a third expressed serious reservations about particular features ’ . |
| 24 | There are ( thankfully ) fewer ‘ guitar ’ sounds this time and quite a few spacey ‘ pads ’ . |
| 25 | He gets annual increases but never a big salary jump , which he would if he were promoted . |
| 26 | She stopped and listened , and heard first laughter and then a voice shouting , ‘ For God 's sake . ’ |
| 27 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 28 | Greenstein has reminded us of Marshall McLuhan 's distinction between " hot " and " cool " media , " hot " media presenting a complete pattern of stimuli , " cool " presenting an incomplete pattern and therefore requiring greater processing and hence a higher level of engagement on the reader 's part . |
| 29 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 30 | But the National government was locked on course for appeasement and , with the parliamentary majority which it enjoyed , there seems little doubt that even a powerful political campaign by the Labour Party , in league with other anti-fascist groups , could have changed its policies . |