Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after four weeks of mass meditation , the rate apparently dropped by nearly a third . |
| 2 | It is apparently done in quite a crude fashion , using a look-up table . |
| 3 | They are particularly concerned about the bobcat which is already under intense pressure — about 100 000 are now trapped annually compared to just a few thousand two decades ago . |
| 4 | Unsecured loan stocks are corporate bonds that are not secured by either a fixed or a floating charge . |
| 5 | ‘ I can cope with even the most difficult calving case , as I 've already proved to quite a few doubtful farmers . ’ |
| 6 | But the situation of working people in political systems where unionization is underdeveloped and is not coupled with even a social democratic form of political mobilization is anomalous for most Marxists . |
| 7 | They have been widely used for over a hundred and fifty years . |
| 8 | This debate , still pursued by only a few specialists , has profound philosophical and theological implications . |
| 9 | This is in contrast to most potential anti-viral agents , whose action is usually restricted to only a few of the many different types of viral agents that cause disease . |
| 10 | Relationship matters , formerly considered in only a limited way as ‘ discipline ’ , Discussing the relationships of the librarian with the users is one way of discussing the role of the librarian , a way that keeps the reader in the forefront of the issue . |
| 11 | Takes its name from the Persian word for crab , but is probably based on either a floral or animal form . |
| 12 | As a result of our involvement , however , it would appear that the NCT is little known at either a national or local level . |
| 13 | Experience of earlier privatisations is that the form of sale is rarely settled until quite a late stage in the exercise . |
| 14 | The easiest and cheapest way of doing this was to excavate an 800 metres long by one metre square trench within a section of the ELR 's former double-track roadbed , now occupied by only a single track . |
| 15 | Each cubicle was a treacherous no man 's land , now braved by only a few passengers seeking out the dozing heat of the restaurant car which , nearing the end of its journey , had little to offer . |
| 16 | Nick Wright of the Photo Co-op also took four or five groups around the exhibition , and some 400 Education Packs were sent to schools around the country , explaining what Magnum is , how it started with a small band of six , and how it has now grown to over a hundred , with offices in New York , Paris and London . |
| 17 | According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) , some 100 million t of nutrient-rich silt were deposited annually in the pre-Aswan period but is now reduced to just a few tomes per year , necessitating extensive fertiliser use at considerable cost and , presumably , inviting long-term eutrophication problems that characterise many developing countries ( section 6.3.1 ) . |
| 18 | One example is the third-century kiln at Godmanchester , which can be related to a building in Pinfold Lane , while a clay-floored structure at Hacheston was interestingly associated with both a third-century kiln producing grey wares and an iron-smithing furnace . |
| 19 | well — there is still some kind of hope ( NOT ! i guess ) — but i still ca n't see why he was not even given at least a whole second-half this season . |
| 20 | So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago . |
| 21 | Mornings had indeed developed into quite a happy routine of little errands and duties for Aunt Emily , the hens and the sea ; and if she felt now , as quite often she did , an incomprehensible longing for something wilder and freer and more satisfying than this domestic round , she put it down to needing to be in the open air more and gave herself , next morning , a longer spell on the smooth buff sands of the bay . |
| 22 | This study has shown that when phonemes are selectively encoded as broad classes ( the mixed sets ) or entirely encoded as mid-classes , utterances are sometimes parsed into over a million word-strings . |
| 23 | Although it was begun in the sixteenth-century the building was not actually completed for over a hundred years , the upper floor being added in the seventeenth-century . |
| 24 | But I think we need to prove that we 've actually communicated with quite a few people to say that if we do n't hear from you in two months then I 'm afraid the scheme will lapse . |
| 25 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |
| 26 | While psychoanalysis itself is very expensive , time-consuming , not available on the National Health Service , and therefore practised on only a small number of people , its influence has been by no means confined to those directly benefiting from treatment . |