Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 2 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 3 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
| 4 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 5 | But Gallagher does not decide this and only a House of Lords judgment on the point can resolve the uncertainty . |
| 6 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 7 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 8 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 9 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 10 | Internationalization is the notion that each country 's economy has become less self-contained and more a part of a global process of production and change . |
| 11 | What has to be shown he said , is that by deliberate acts the court order has been defied and broken and accordingly a contempt of court has taken place . |
| 12 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 13 | They were afraid because elsewhere a group of armed cossacks had besieged the ship , threatening to kill anyone who disembarked . |
| 14 | It would , however , be too simple to portray antislavery after the late 1830s as purely a scene of contending sects more concerned with maintaining their own kinds of purity than achieving anything practical . |
| 15 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 16 | He would have liked to have made a run for Mexico but he had work to do , and there was n't a chance of their surviving that long a race against the hurricane . |
| 17 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 18 | It is noticeable that even a writer like J. 5 . |
| 19 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 20 | The plan of the book is related to its overall purpose of demystifying research , making it more accessible and more a part of everyday work and decision making . |
| 21 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 22 | It was not long before we had to try our swords , as the billhooks had become , on something real and so a row of perfectly harmless Brussels Sprouts were decapitated . |
| 23 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 24 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 25 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 26 | Alternatively there may be no marks as such but simply a set of grades to which the quality of pupils ' work may be assigned directly . |
| 27 | Being a forward-thinking ‘ man of science ’ it seems highly probable that our present-day Darwin would be computer-literate and certainly a user of word processors . |
| 28 | At the wedding ceremony , when the usual problem of naming his father had arisen , John put ‘ Lawrence Tiller ( deceased ) ’ but his son was called Lawrence , was still alive and now a man of twenty-nine , working as general manager in the business . |
| 29 | And then it was the cu , we 'd payed that and then a couple of weeks after it was the phone and then it was the gas ! |
| 30 | It is false that only a person in authority is an authority . |