Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [subord] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think speaking as another psychiatrist er the medical profession do have to look very carefully and perhaps how a lot of the damage has been done er with how women perceive whether they can ask for help or not because a lot of the women here have raised been giving tranquillizers and my colleague across there has pointed out that tranquillizers are not an appropriate way of treating depression . |
| 2 | She felt Fand grip her arm ; the white face turned , whiter than before as a gust of fire passed . |
| 3 | Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill . |
| 4 | If anything the expensive fiasco at Three Mile Island ( this issue , p 79 ) could be interpreted as showing that even when a bunch of incompetents is let loose on a nuclear power station and does its best to help an accident along , the chances of harming the public are slim . |
| 5 | But only because of the awful calamity of Hillsborough and only because a man of the intellect and vision of Lord Justice Taylor was asked for his opinion . |
| 6 | THERE are always horses at Edelson House in Gainford if only because a part of the garden is a horses ' graveyard . |
| 7 | This challenge can be very threatening to men and to white people , partly because changing your interpretation of the world is an uncomfortable experience , and partly because a change of attitudes inevitably causes social change , and this in turn brings about a shift in power relationships . |
| 8 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 9 | A single currency may come into being in 1997 , but only if a minimum of seven countries meet the convergence conditions , and eight of the Twelve vote in favour . |
| 10 | There were whiffs of controversy in the air as the obsequies were dealt with , but only because a couple of the reporters interrogated retiring manager Micky Stewart over possible suspicion of Pakistan ball-tampering . |
| 11 | Fear against them , I still would n't put it past them , I 'm not saying they will , I 'd be very surprised if they did try to get cos they 're cos they 're on the sort of er the brink of being excepted by the rest of the world again , you know , but up until a couple of years ago , this thing happened , you know conventional warfare were and they only way we can stop them is by nuclear warfare 's |
| 12 | These studies are important not only for recurrent stone disease but also because a knowledge of gall stone recurrence is likely to provide valuable clues about the pathogenesis and treatment of primary gall stone disease . |
| 13 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |
| 14 | We now are setting into motion a new system , whereby the PAs to the Head of Groups/Sectors keep copies of the Christian Aid self-certificate form and should ensure that as soon as a member of staff returns from their sick leave they fill it in . |
| 15 | One reason might be that , as soon as a conglomeration of chemicals becomes complicated enough to become ‘ protolife ’ , something comes along and eats it . |
| 16 | In the two sea-stories it is an important clue to character as well as a way of releasing tension . |
| 17 | An initial fee is payable to the franchisor , as well as a percentage of the annual profits . |
| 18 | This meant that despite Meehan 's pardon , the proceedings to some extent would be a retrial of Meehan as well as a trial of Waddell ; and one of its more lunatic aspects was hearing Mr King-Murray as prosecuting counsel , who for two years had strenuously refused to entertain the notion of Meehan 's innocence and Waddell 's guilt , now deploying arguments to show that very thing ( although unlike Griffith-Jones at Ward 's trial , he did not seem to have his heart in it ) ; and conversely to hear Waddell 's counsel echoing the arguments of the prosecutor at Meehan 's trial to demonstrate Meehan 's guilt and Waddell 's innocence . |
| 19 | As well as a transcription of the Bolero for four hands and two pianos , two of Ravel 's waltzes have been discovered among the documents . |
| 20 | Marschalek ( 1983 ) has noted that children generally attend to only a portion of the information contained within a stimulus whereas adults include more dimensions as well as a consideration of structural aspects . |
| 21 | Laurel , in effect , made two contributions to the partnership : as Hardy was quick to concede , Laurel was the creator and rigorous controller of their comedy , as well as a member of what was widely recognized as the best comic double act of its time . |
| 22 | He apparently wrote a continuation of the unfinished commentary of Aquinas on Aristotle 's Perihermeneias , as well as a continuation of Aquinas 's commentary on Aristotle 's De generatione et corruptione . |
| 23 | Those thirty years span some of the sharpest changes of trend in modern history , from persistent deflation , for instance , to persistent inflation , or from unemployment averaging 10 per cent to unemployment averaging 2 per cent , as well as a rise of at least one-third in national income per head . |
| 24 | On the basis of partly theoretical data for an extensive sheep croft , enlarged to 10 ha by subletting adjacent crofts , with 20 ha of improved grazing as well as a share of common grazing , the net income from sheep farming goes up to £1,598 . |
| 25 | The Government 's thirst for more competition , less regulation and more consumer choice is expected to result in three new national commercial radio networks ( two of which will push the BBC out of some of its existing frequencies ) as well as a plethora of local and ‘ community ’ stations . |
| 26 | We noted earlier that , as well as a shortage of science teachers in schools , there is a shortage of modern language teachers . |
| 27 | Kirkman remains , however , a major force in the market , the owner of a large collection of pictures from all periods of Freud 's career , including masterpieces such as ‘ Large Interior W11 ( After Watteau ) ’ ( 1981–83 ) and ‘ The painter 's mother ’ ( 1982–84 ) , as well as a portfolio of his etchings . |
| 28 | It also meant a 29 per cent cut in textbooks , and severe cuts in materials , supplies and maintenance as well as a reduction of training workshops for teachers . |
| 29 | Use plenty of shrubs for privacy as well as a profusion of blooms , and use rustic features to create a focal point and provide useful extra height … |
| 30 | As well as a suite of connected rooms to serve an integrated team teaching humanities , adjacent to an impressively equipped learning-resources centre , the school boasted a spacious library with office space , a small non-book resources room , and a soft-seated reading area . |