Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She was drunk , but it was not a prophesy or even a sexual invitation , it was an expression of delight .
2 My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey .
3 Michael Meacher and Frank Field have stressed that only a limited circle of people were actively involved in formulating the industrial policy proposals , and that beyond this circle , understanding of the proposals was rather minimal .
4 The hon. Member for Ogmore said that the opinion polls demonstrated that only a limited number of people would be interested in total deregulation .
5 If the function of the leave requirement is to weed out unarguable or vexatious cases it might be expected that only a small proportion of cases would fail at this stage .
6 While their opponents in 1830 believed that a considerable measure of parliamentary reform would lead to national catastrophe , the Whigs maintained that only a considerable measure could prevent a catastrophe …
7 We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson .
8 I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me .
9 The Canadians , more experienced than most in these matters , say that only a modest amount of special training is needed to turn a good soldier into a good peacekeeper .
10 Experts have forecast that even a partial ban will be a blow to Taiwan 's fishing companies , which are already facing recession and rely on driftnetting as the most profitable method .
11 He prepared vaccines from these bacteria and found that frequently a marked improvement occurred in the health of the patient after treatment by injection of the appropriate killed vaccine .
12 Jaques ( the ‘ Glacier investigations ’ ) found that even a well-defined role in the organisation posed problems for the person expected to fill it with regard to the exercise of authority .
13 I found that quite a hard time erm and especially if you do n't have any family near .
14 This is probably one of the most difficult factors for the young diabetic to accept and undoubtedly a great advantage of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is that it permits the patient greater flexibility in relation to the timing of meals with manual boluses of insulin 30 minutes beforehand .
15 Asthma was defined as discrete episodes of wheezing and either a previous diagnosis of asthma or documented reversible airway obstruction as determined by a 20% improvement in forced expiratory volume in one second ( FEV 1 ) after bronchodilator administration or a 20% decrease in FEV 1 after methacholine bronchoprovocation , performed in accordance with the American Thoracic Society guidelines .
16 Although few patients under investigation for iron deficiency anaemia will be found to have bleeding from the small intestine , these lesions can be difficult to find and therefore a disproportionate amount of time is spent in investigating these patients .
17 There 's nothing worse to come but just a different perspective which will probably put this whole thing into a new light . ’
18 Now , imply that there is no stretch , as would be expected because only a pure rotation of axes has been involved .
19 The more he thought about it , the more he realized that only a slight change would need to be made to his own plans .
20 But Greenpeace insist that only a small percentage of the fish caught by the seals are of interest to the fishermen , and that over-fishing remains the main threat to North Sea fish stocks .
21 I mean that rather a nice Chinese restaurant in the high street does take away .
22 During the last years of the war it was noticed that rather a high proportion of soldiers were failing to be cured by the standard doses of M & B 693 , as the sulphonamide was called , and this was the first clue to the potential in the gonococcus for developing resistance to antibiotics .
23 It was simply a question , Fred declared , of having ‘ a nose for news ’ and added that only a competent reporter could make a good story out of unlikely ingredients .
24 Studies at King 's College School of Medicine show that even a short period of hard pedalling on an exercise bike diverts blood flow from the uterus to the legs , ‘ stealing ’ oxygen from the foetus .
25 This was ginger brown in colour and so badly fitting that only a blind man would not realise that it was a hairpiece .
26 It was felt that maybe a stronger emphasis should be put on the need for ecumenical and inter-faith dialogue .
27 But I personally , certainly hope that quite a substantial money will come from the local businesses .
28 North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary has revealed that nearly a thousand cancer patients have been wrongly treated there in the past nine years .
29 Although studies have revealed that only a small subgroup of such diabetics have reduced plasma renin , in those with nephropathy both plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone tend to be decreased ( Christlieb , 1978 ) .
30 You may feel that only a major record company can offer your band the right level of investment and promotion .
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