Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when scientific method is employed to keep the work of sociology along the lines of a growing discipline then a close relationship between theory , hypothesis and facts must be maintained . |
| 2 | Mr. Langley submitted that , under the plain terms of the statute , it was the Bank and the Bank alone who were empowered to make the necessary judgment , with no interposition ( as in some other statutes ) of a judicial officer e.g. a commissioner in relation to certain statutory powers of the revenue . |
| 3 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 4 | The ticket office , which has been branded an eyesore , was opened as a temporary measure over a year ago in preparation for the station 's £1m refurbishment . |
| 5 | Meat should not be eaten more than once a day ; and fish is increasingly thought of as healthier — oily fish is useful in the prevention of heart disease and arthritis — and you may feel it is worth substituting fish for meat as a main meal twice a week . |
| 6 | Then we would n't have this nonsense of having to get our meat through a Christian butcher twice a week . |
| 7 | We could clinch a play-off place with a good run yet a lot of fans appear to have written off our season . |
| 8 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 9 | If all context-tables are combined into a single library then a change in the properties of a context can be effected just by changing its context-specification within the library . |
| 10 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 11 | Liz started as an assistant cook just a few months after CCG had won the Grampian contract , but later moved into the office and now bring her experience to bear on a range of tasks . |
| 12 | Cattle stealing provided certain groups in rural areas with an opportunity to benefit from the economic changes along the coast and in the central highlands , but it did not long survive as an organized business once a district was penetrated deeply by plantations . |
| 13 | Kurt , 25 , says : ‘ I 've fallen asleep in a live show quite a few times . |
| 14 | Th this company must be in a bloody sight worse a mess than we thought and the government are not letting us know this is what they 're look for are scapegoats and they they 're . |
| 15 | Although the share of state borrowing in total company finance has recently been relatively small at about 10 per cent , in a qualitative sense even a small loan by a state institution carries a seal of approval that enormously enhances the standing of companies with their banks . |
| 16 | If the ferreting is in a confined space then a 4.10 is a useful weapon . |
| 17 | ‘ In 1809 he won the Society of Arts gold medals , having planted in a single year over a million larches and other forest trees ’ — he planted for posterity . |
| 18 | The Goigama paid their Hena " retainers " in a formal gift-giving once a year . |
| 19 | Our object is to illuminate one of these l.e.d.s in a random manner directly a correct hit has been made by the batsman at the crease . |
| 20 | In 1989 McMurdo attempted to sue the Manchester United striker Brian McClair in an acrimonious dispute over a £5,000 sponsorship deal with the sportswear company Puma . |
| 21 | The problem is that if the organisation is in an unstable environment then a different , more flexible , organisational structure is necessary . |
| 22 | Hair that 's been coloured with a permanent product will benefit from an intensive conditioner once a week . |
| 23 | You may also find your hair benefits from an intensive re-moisturiser once a week . |
| 24 | Isfield itself seems to have shifted from its old site , up near the parish church , to a new site almost a quarter of a mile south-eastwards ; the moated manor near the church was abandoned and replaced by a new separate dwelling . |
| 25 | That question merely illustrates the fact that the Labour party is historically a party of unilateral disarmament and that , by prejudice and policy , it is to a considerable degree still a party of unilateral disarmament . |
| 26 | The commission was paid on a reducing basis so a substantial amount of commission was paid in respect of the premium paid in the first policy year and a lower commission in subsequent years up to the tenth year . |
| 27 | The tunnel cuts through a saddle into the valley of the Stinchar river , so on a calm morning even a heavy train on the bank could hardly be heard from the Pinmore side of the tunnel . |
| 28 | Both sides would further cut stocks to " a very small fraction " of current arsenals over an eight-year period once a worldwide ban ( currently under negotiation at the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva — see p. 37224 ) on the development , production , use and possession of chemical weapons had entered into force . |
| 29 | So , through no fault of my own , I was at a loose end quite a bit . |
| 30 | Wilson , speaking at an Annual Conference almost a quarter of a century later summarised the experience of 1887–1894. " 1887 was a fairly good year . |