Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some ads will be irrelevant : the viewer or reader is not in the target group , or has just made a purchase in that product group and does not want another just yet . |
| 2 | ( eg. a BTEC First Certificate or Diploma or SCOTVEC National Certificate Modules in relevant studies , such as in Hotel and Catering ) , or have successfully completed a Catering YTS programme or hold appropriate CGLI certificates in catering and/or accommodation subjects ) . |
| 3 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 4 | It is a habit that has historically enjoyed a measure of success in maintaining control over and transmitting limited knowledge to young people in large numbers in the physically restricted space of the school classroom . |
| 5 | In contrast with Bali , the Fipa as described by Willis provide an example of a hierarchical and centralized society that has successfully generalized a norm of peaceful interaction originating at the local community level . |
| 6 | The 5.3-litre engine and 3-speed automatic gearbox have gone replaced by the 6-litre V12 and 4speed gearbox that has already done a lot to transform the XJ saloons . |
| 7 | Keegan refuses to publicly condemn a competition that has already provoked a welter of criticism but has asked the Football League to re-examine the format of using Italian referees in England and vice-versa . |
| 8 | One firm that has recently installed a CAD system is the Somerset shoemaker Clarks Ltd . |
| 9 | This is a severe example of a kind of reviewing that has consistently created a line of demarcation between British and European ( or American ) taste . |
| 10 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 11 | For instance , nothing is more likely than that Prothero , when he said that association with Blast ‘ stamped a man too disadvantageously ’ , had in mind among other things Ford 's connection with the magazine and the scandal of Ford 's relations with Violet Hunt — a scandal that had already made a breach between Violet Hunt and the cruelly timorous Henry James , as told painfully in I Have This to Say . |
| 12 | Charles Augustus Busby of the Busby and Wilds partnership that had already provided a number of distinguished buildings in Brighton laid out a plan on the west side for a new , almost self-contained , estate with its own church and markets , to be called Brunswick Square . |
| 13 | Thus political leaders of lesser developed countries found themselves part of a government that had officially accepted a family planning programme or soil conservation programme ( or both ) , but were aware that there was widespread opposition locally to both . |
| 14 | Bewildered by the holocaust of events , by death that had suddenly changed a world , he began apologising , first to the policemen : ‘ I do n't know what to say , his best man to die like that … ’ and then to his son : ‘ I 'd give my right hand to have things different , Jack . |
| 15 | I have run in more than 30 cities , including places that had never seen a runner before . |
| 16 | He was oddly sluggish and lazy , more like a leery veteran than a horse that had never seen a racecourse . |
| 17 | Across the room she smiled at Rachaela her straight white teeth that had never needed a dentist . |
| 18 | I was holding off buying an away shirt , as I did n't want to wear a shirt that had never won a game . |
| 19 | Linton has developed Fresco with portability in mind and has already tested a version that runs on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , apparently his main target for technology . |
| 20 | Fowler Welch was only founded in 1987 and has already achieved a turnover of more than £5m . |
| 21 | Erin Sloman is Reader in Artificial Intelligence in the University , and has already contributed a programme earlier in this series . |
| 22 | The £10,000-a-day model , above , has had a chain of rosebuds tattooed around her ankle and has also accepted a diamond ring from the Guns 'N Roses singer . |
| 23 | Intel has a pact with Fluent Inc , developer of software used by aerospace , automotive and chemical firms , and has also co-developed a prototype program called LS-DYNA3D to run on its Paragon XP/S supercomputer . |
| 24 | The bureau has been involved in several local residents ' campaigns for improved amenities and has also produced a report on racism in North Tyneside , aimed at persuading the local authority to look at its range of services within the borough . |
| 25 | The Terrence Higgins Trust Advice Centre can offer advice and assistance with all these questions and has also published a leaflet containing advice about life insurance and mortgages . |
| 26 | Chris has worked hard spreading the work and has also started a Class in Newbury , an area completely new to Medau . |
| 27 | From early next year she will be appearing on Channel Four 's Food File programme and has just completed a video about healthy eating the Mediterranean way . |
| 28 | Barbara Renshaw is a production scheduler with ICI Agrochemicals , Surrey , and has just started a career break . |
| 29 | The Minister tabled the statutory instrument when the House was not sitting and has just delivered a speech lasting 40 minutes . |
| 30 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |