Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) ‘ firm ’ means an unincorporated partnership consisting of solicitors or recognised bodies or both , or a multi-national partnership and includes also a solicitor who is a sole practitioner ; |
| 2 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 3 | In this dialogue Masefield offers a brief recapitulation to steady his headlong narrative and offers also a facet of the lad 's character , linking the ebullience of youth to the enforced maturity of the adventure . |
| 4 | As the former Director of WHO Global Programme on AIDS has said : ‘ Denial at personal , social , national and international level has been a constant problem and remains today a grave threat to public health . ’ |
| 5 | In 1976 Rossler [ 23 ] introduced a simpler three-dimensional system that has only a single nonlinear cross-term , zx : ( 2.4 ) unc where a , b and c are constants . |
| 6 | Roughly speaking , the quality is determined by location in the vineyard , which can be divided into bands : the most northerly band , elevated at a height of between 180 and 220 metres , comprises some of the finest grand cru slopes in all Champagne and represents about a third of Bouzy 's hectarage ; below this is a wide strip situated at a height of between 160 and 180 metres which , in my estimation , should hold the rank of a top premier cru ; the lowest band , at about 170 metres , runs around the flat northern edge of the village and produces vines of a markedly inferior quality . |
| 7 | The 40-member National People 's Assembly , " the supreme organ of the state " , is elected for a five-year term and meets twice a year . |
| 8 | My uncle in the evening had read aloud something where the line was quoted The child is father to the man and these words insinuated themselves not into the stony ground and thistles of my mind but into the dark rich soil that brings forth a hundred fold . |
| 9 | The pun challenges models of cognition based on analytic reasoning and proposes instead a conception of language as a force capable of altering its object . |
| 10 | ‘ What you can be sure of , ’ said Thorfinn , eluding the question , ‘ is that the Pope and the Emperor Henry both know , and that one is dying while the other enjoys indifferent health and has only a three-year-old son to succeed him . |
| 11 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 12 | He stayed at the hospital until 1949 , when a Bloomsbury House visitor reported : ‘ He looks extremely well , but unshaven … he is in an open ward and has quite a lot of freedom … |
| 13 | It is usually a facultative characteristic and affects only a proportion of the worm population . |
| 14 | John Retallack is a bright director but keeps only a very light hand on the tiller here ; this is not so much director 's theatre as anonymous the- atre . |