Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The techniques of display , enhancement , filtering and transformation of remotely-sensed images that have been described in this chapter represent only a selection of those available . |
| 2 | I am firmly of the belief that most people in this world achieve only a fraction of what they are capable . |
| 3 | More importantly , the different types of phonetic , metrical , syntactic and semantic parallelism in poetic language indicate iconically a connection of meaning between the terms involved , and thus point to or reinforce the analogies between disparate elements from which , in his opinion , so much of the effect of poetry derives . |
| 4 | The theories in this section represent only a selection from the range of sociological theories . |
| 5 | When self-regard is so shatteringly undermined , the symbols of a former shaky greatness become almost an affront . |
| 6 | Thus the descriptions of a language which are the output of a first-order application of linguistic theory represent only an inventory from which a selection must be made in order to draw up the syllabus for any particular teaching operation . |
| 7 | Few pilots are in this game for the glory or so — called glamour , but because we are inextricably dedicated to the sport of aerobatics , and we have an insatiable desire to one day bring home a Gold , Silver or even a Bronze . |
| 8 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 9 | Modern English have quite a history . |
| 10 | The profits won by the producer , which in the short-run view seem clearly a monopoly rent attributable to the monopolized resource , turn out to be , in the long-run view , the profits of competitive entrepreneurship . |