Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If their commitment and reliability are seen to be less than that of a paid worker then the stereotype will be reinforced and the many totally committed and reliable volunteers will be misjudged . |
| 2 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If the Department of Health are prepared to shell out money to keepers of a vermin-infested tenement then the officials are to blame . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If the answer to the Finished ? message is Y after determination of a vertical strip then the Option 2 dialogue terminates with the message : — |
| 7 | For even if we achieve the objective of a full franchise then the purpose of that full franchise will not work for disabled people if they do n't have full access to polling stations , they only then have the alternative of using postal or proxy votes and not exercising their franchise in the same way that able-bodied people er will do and their full right are part of the measure that I 'm seeking the house to agree that I should pursue . |
| 8 | Yet there are also brief moments of recovery , moments of gratified desire and a coming to life : ‘ on this abandoned divan , I shall inhale for a long while still the earthy , vegetal smell which the faun left behind ; then , in the morning , wakened at dawn , I shall fling myself into the delicious air ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
| 9 | For a long time afterwards the shepherds said they heard his ghost at night , quietly sobbing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If an error or warning occurs for a particular module then an appropriate message is output to this log file , but processing continues until all modules in the steering file have been examined . |
| 12 | In its use as an auxiliary , do has retained from the idea of " performing an activity " signified in its use as a lexical verb only the notion of " something actually taking its place in time " : do auxiliary thus has the effect of discussing the real actualization in time of the lexical event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then we would n't have this nonsense of having to get our meat through a Christian butcher twice a week . |
| 16 | He 'd like one with a spare bedroom so the children can come and stop . |
| 17 | We could clinch a play-off place with a good run yet a lot of fans appear to have written off our season . |
| 18 | If the orthogonal geometric domain condition is assumed then the additional attribute would be described as follows : A3 , = five boundary touching condition with a second domain Thus the sets describing the attributes of the various parts are given as : unc The geometric and functional domains are thus generated as shown in Figure 2.6 . |
| 19 | With a little training both the congregation and the soloist can produce good results , and thus provide a welcome supplement to the singing of hymns . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Kurt , 25 , says : ‘ I 've fallen asleep in a live show quite a few times . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The council should not agree to standing orders being ‘ suspended ’ except in a real emergency otherwise the conduct of the council 's business will be unnecessarily prolonged and the standard of debate lowered . |
| 26 | IF you 're travelling in a dirty car today the chances are it 's being driven by a woman . |
| 27 | The most promising way of achieving this might be to take more seriously Dworkin 's own master principle of equal concern and respect , for , as has been seen , this does appear capable of generating a right of equality which transcends that of equality of opportunity , and a right of effective participation in the decision-making process which would go far beyond the right to vote in a general election once every five years . |
| 28 | This section also covers the Policyholder in a personal capacity e.g. the Policyholder 's pet dog may attack and kill some sheep in a field . |
| 29 | In a joint statement afterwards the two sides called for the immediate resumption of the GATT global trade talks in Geneva . |
| 30 | Paul Mukasa , 34 , who works as an electrician , added : ‘ I personally think the economy is in a worse state then the Government has been letting on . ’ |