Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 2 | Supposing , against the odds , the Tories scrape home , or cobble together a working majority , the day-after rally could be spectacular . |
| 3 | Brian knows Brian knew everything more or less or arranged quite a few things anyway |
| 4 | In the auction room discretion must be used in bidding and the developer must have a clearly defined policy if the price exceeds the value calculated : he should either withdraw or bid only a marginal percentage above the calculated value . |
| 5 | Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days . |
| 6 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 7 | ‘ Or does even a temporary steward open no chests ; fold no linen away ? ’ |
| 8 | Basically , water passes through a coarse strainer which needs a weekly rinse ; through foam that needs a weekly rinse and changing every four months ; through carbon that has only a two week life ; through two ceramic sponges that need rotating and one discarding every six months ; through the reusable Hex-Nodes and through a final polishing screen . |
| 9 | The SRP60N ribber can be set like this , but you can also use the autoset lever to produce a fabric that has only a single colour on the reverse . |
| 10 | Quite by chance he heard that they had another depôt off Mitcham Road , West Croydon and on visiting that found quite a different state of affairs . |
| 11 | The kind that cost about a hundred dollars on the black market . |
| 12 | It can not serve as a term that describes objectively a specific set of conditions . |
| 13 | A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time . |
| 14 | As Taylor began planning an improbable revival in Washington on Sunday against a Brazilian side that threw away a three-goal lead in a 3–3 draw with Germany last night , FA chairman Sir Bert Millichip emerged as a key figure . |
| 15 | A glance through the catalogues soon brings the realisation that the choice is much greater than existed even a few years ago . |
| 16 | Here was the partial and still nuanced defiance of their respective Alliance masters that indicated both a German refusal of the role of victims in the superpower struggle and a sense in both German states that the room for manoeuvre was growing . |
| 17 | Measurement , and the reason why Lazarsfeld was so insistent on developing a social research format that permitted even a modest level of quantification , is one of the procedures that facilitates the mathematisation of theory , a feature which is the hallmark of the most advanced of the natural sciences , such as physics . |
| 18 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 19 | Decisions or plans that went awry a few weeks ago may now right themselves and the momentum of life steps up markedly . |
| 20 | Ireland led 48-39 at the half-way point but had no answer to a late Welsh rally that gave then a 92-82 win . |
| 21 | Knill said that he was satisfied with NERC 's allocation from the Science Vote for 1992–3 ( see above ) , which although showing only a small percentage rise will allow the council to set up two new community projects : LOIS ( the Land-Ocean Interaction Study ) and Bridge ( the HEI-led British Mid-Atlantic Ridge project ) . |
| 22 | There can be baby universes that contain only a few particles . |
| 23 | My uncle in the evening had read aloud something where the line was quoted The child is father to the man and these words insinuated themselves not into the stony ground and thistles of my mind but into the dark rich soil that brings forth a hundred fold . |
| 24 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
| 25 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 26 | The political anger created by economic fears was diverted by nationalism away from the only course that stood even a small chance of success . |
| 27 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 28 | SIR , — Harding and colleagues ( April 17 , p 999 ) confirm our observation that patients with malignant germ cell tumours treated in specialist units have better survival than those treated in hospitals that see only a few patients a year with this malignant disorder . |
| 29 | Here too the distinction was not absolute , and hides many other differences ; but the bulk of the lower clergy were half educated at best , and led quite a different life from their superiors . |
| 30 | She lifted a hand to her face and wiped away a greasy sheen of sweat . |