Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a process is essential to help a team to mature because it is only through reflection that a team can emerge from the forming and storming stages . |
| 2 | Length is stored as exact length ±1 , so for example if a word has 5 letters , then bits 4 , 5 and 6 will be set . |
| 3 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 4 | Instead of facing some fierce wild animal alone and killing it armed only with courage and a spear , he now channels his competitive instinct into his job , or sport . ’ |
| 5 | Twilight and mystery were woven into the words — along with fear and a reluctance to accept the inevitable . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , we 'll be trotting them along to probation or a solicitor or whatever and getting that side of things dealt with , etc. etc. , so we try to stitch together some sorts of packages for people who otherwise fall through . |
| 7 | 1.3 However , RSC Ord 38 and CCR Ord 20 are expressed to be subject to the Civil Evidence Act 1968 ( see Appendix B ) under which hearsay evidence in documents can be put in at trial if a party can not call the witness . |
| 8 | Blood relatives in some sense are bound together by genetic material , but relations by marriage are bound together by law and a code of conduct which accompanies this ( Schneider , 1968 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Pop-ins ’ are just for tea and a chat . |
| 10 | Proudly holding his RFC logbook , in which is a section headed ‘ Rendcomb ’ — here was a man who had flown from the aerodrome not for recreation and a sense of history , but to ready himself and others for war . |
| 11 | Cells in the tumour seem to resemble the body 's own cells soon after conception when a baby is still developing . |
| 12 | THE QUALITY press and television programmes are guilty of ‘ a falling away of accuracy and a sloppiness in dealing with facts and quotations ’ , the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , claimed yesterday . |
| 13 | Normally an ‘ A ’ or ‘ AS ’ level pass in French at grade C or better , and GCSE/GCE ‘ O ’ level passes at grade C or above in Mathematics and a language other than French are required . |
| 14 | Normally GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE passes at grade C or above in Mathematics and a science subject ( and , as part of the general entry requirements , English Language ) are required . |
| 15 | Normally GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE passes at grade C or above in Mathematics and a science subject ( and , as part of the general entry requirements , English Language ) are required for admission to the Sport and Leisure Studies programmes . |
| 16 | " Finally , " she said , bringing her head up , shaking her head not in negation but a sort of defiance , so that the tangled black hair bobbed once . |
| 17 | Unknown to the pilot the runway was not in use and a ditch ( left ) ran across it . |
| 18 | The four-part series includes a king crowned late in life , a PM who took over in mid-term and a princess snubbed after being pictured on holiday with another man . |
| 19 | Established companies , concentrating on defending what they already have , tend not to counter-attack when a newcomer challenges them . |
| 20 | Then they had done a short walk along the Lagan , the mood teetering precariously between rapprochement and a set-to . |
| 21 | Daylight colour film ( around 5500 K colour temperature ) can only be used directly with daylight and a substage mirror . |
| 22 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 23 | Close-coupled double-symphonic suites are quieter still in operation and a change over to a modern suite may be well worth considering . |
| 24 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 25 | With a post officer close to retirement and a garage owner struggling with ill health , Parnell was desperate not to let the quality of village life plummet . |
| 26 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 27 | To say this is not to play with words but to assert there is more to peace than a word with five letters . |
| 28 | ‘ She obviously decided there was more to life than a ship 's doctor had to offer . ’ |
| 29 | Retail outlets in towns and busy shopping centres , which face tougher competition , spend more on advertising than a village shop , which may have no competitors nearby . |
| 30 | Eileen was home on leave when a letter came from Terry to tell them that he was off to France . |