Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once each has had a turn , the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs . |
| 2 | But traditionally neither has had an organization capable of responding to commercial pressures . |
| 3 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 4 | Often this seems to involve a contradiction of an accepted meaning ( the striptease as non-erotic , the jet-man as having gone beyond speed , wrestling as more to do with Commedia dell'Arte than sport , etc . ) . |
| 5 | erm I 'm not someone who 's for , for example , erm positive discrimination where that means choosing a woman when there 's a better man erm and I think that erm although some feminists do , certainly it 's not a necessary condition of being a feminist , and I certainly do n't , and I think that if John Major erm sincerely looked at all the women who could have been in his cabinet , and sincerely judged their abilities erm compared to the men who were available , erm and decided that the women were n't ready , then I think that 's , that 's a possible position . |
| 6 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |