Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If rebates are extensive this takes on some aspects of an income tax too . |
| 2 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 3 | Right This interpretation of a wireline log of a borehole in Indonesia was made by means of GS computer software funded by ODA . |
| 4 | She said , " Philip , I know that if you had taken on this job on a business basis you would have had to charge hundreds . |
| 5 | Course I have n't been down that way for a while . |
| 6 | What made it all so difficult was that , though practically no one had had a good word to say for Hereward , no one could or would pin down that dislike into a form which could prime a hatred violent enough to kill him . |
| 7 | So that lead to an increase in the open state probability . |
| 8 | Bull cites one incident in which transmissions from a walkie-talkie caused a thermocouple to indicate — wrongly that part of a process plant supposed to be operating at 10°C had overheated to 200°C . |
| 9 | We must get together some time for a chat . |
| 10 | Whether you prefer to follow Turner , and use the idea of a ‘ liminoid ’ period for those times and situations when only some members of a society pass through the rite of separation , is a matter of personal choice . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's only some rubbish about a puerto Rican mass murderer … ’ she said . |
| 12 | I mean there are obviously some aspects of a school 's policy that are relatively easily changed . |
| 13 | The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC . |
| 14 | In such conditions you can fish the river as if it were a canal , with very little weight either spread equally down the line , or grouped just below half way with a dropper about twelve inches above the hook . |
| 15 | Then you used to chop them down this way with a cleaver . |
| 16 | Does all this sound like a company which , as Anglo-Welsh claim , ‘ will find it difficult to grow and will ultimately decline ’ ? |
| 17 | So this talk of a flood was getting serious … |
| 18 | Six o'clock this morning at a West London newsagent , they 're unpacking the revamped Independent on Sunday . |
| 19 | Yes , it is inhabited again , only this time by an army detachment which monitors the efforts of a missile range in the Hebrides , but it does mean that electric light and other amenities are made available — including a pub called the Puff Inn ! |
| 20 | So some sections of an audience would hear one sound , and others something quite different . |
| 21 | Franklin always resented the Department being saddled with so much debt at a time of falling revenue , but the Coronations dominated most of his time as Manager . |
| 22 | That was the authority that caused so much scandal as a result of the compulsory competitive tendering legislation with such iniquitous dealings in the management buy-outs of the school meals service that the Audit Commission had to issue special guidelines for all future cases . |
| 23 | On the other hand they are criticised for making so much money in a world that pampers them , and for covering themselves in sponsors ' deals to the point that the locker-room at the Players ' Championship sometimes seems like Gasoline Alley at the Indy 500 . |
| 24 | No two prose characters exert so much influence on a play as do Pandarus and Thersites , and only one other play that I can think of ( King Lear ) makes so much use of a simultaneous gap between the two media . |
| 25 | Of course , when communist leaders like Trotsky talked about how , after the revolution , the communist state would move the features of the landscape around like so much furniture in a room , they still stood only on the threshold of the environmental disasters which have ensued throughout the communist world as dams have been built , rivers redirected , forests cut down , and refuse dumped with abandon to meet the requirements of the latest Five Year Plan . |
| 26 | not even go into it , because what happens is they 're allowed so much funding in a year and if the budget runs out half way through , that 's every body out of work . |
| 27 | YET AS A FORCE capable of smothering this divine connection , disco was so hellbound ; so much work for a missionary . |
| 28 | They use so much petrol on a taxi business they got she 's got about a dozen still I think . |
| 29 | Christian 's a fine man , but I can only take so much religion in a week . |
| 30 | My God I 've never seen someone put so much power into a header ! |