Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a protective capability , I 'd heard — a black mist that could suddenly be blown out in a huge , binding cloud . |
| 2 | I have an advertisement for CIA survival knives which states that it ’ is a superb high tech fibreglass filled nylon construction knife which weighs just 20 gm. due to its double edge , spear point and double fluted reinforced spine , tremendous plunging power — it can literally be driven straight through a telephone directory ( remains undetected by airport metal detectors ) ’ . |
| 3 | Also , the insurers will not necessarily cover all your customers and those that they do cover may only be covered up to a certain amount . |
| 4 | Two male Siamese Fighting Fish , though small , could only be kept together in a huge heavily-planted tank . |
| 5 | At its most conventional , the use of word pairs is a substitute for creative poetic activity , whereas the parallelism of greater precision is a subtle relationship between or among the lines of poetry that can only be designed in by a relatively sophisticated artist . |
| 6 | Right from the beginning , we argued that the revolutionary process in El Salvador could only be carried out through a popular war in which the incorporation of the civil population is essential When we take over a village or settlement and the enemy forces are ousted … we begin the work of consciousness raising about the situation of the country together with the work of organizing the local population . |
| 7 | Investment business may only be carried out for a ‘ corporate finance client ’ in connection with ‘ corporate finance activities ’ in accordance with the terms of a ‘ corporate finance engagement letter ’ which has been agreed with the client . |
| 8 | Swannson already has a depot in Swindon but it is a condition of his O licence for that operating centre that maintenance can only be carried out in a restricted manner . |
| 9 | Similarly , repairs and maintenance should only be carried out by a specialist mastic asphalt contractor . |
| 10 | This should only be carried out by a professional repairer as special equipment and experience in dealing with severely warped necks is required . |
| 11 | These can only be sold off at a loss . |
| 12 | In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure . |
| 13 | Whole ones need only be fried lightly in a little butter and served hot with a wedge of lemon . |
| 14 | Once it crosses the centre-line it can only be used immediately as a back fist . |
| 15 | Unions also opposed a further government emergency measure of June 26 , creating a new wage indexing mechanism , which could only be used twice in a year and which forbade employers to pass on increased wage costs to consumers through higher prices . |
| 16 | DUP MP Peter Robinson said selective internment should only be brought in as a last resort . |
| 17 | A change in this situation can only be brought about by a change in attitude throughout the profession . |
| 18 | Such a transfer could and would only be brought about by a bourgeois-democratic revolution . |
| 19 | They can only be set aside for a time . |
| 20 | The Defence wheel can only be put over for a major change of course when there is a fortuitous coincidence of national and international events , political trends , and economic pressures at a time when there is also a Secretary of State in office , who has the strength of character and political standing to create a new consensus in Whitehall , Westminster , and the electorate . |
| 21 | Althusser thus suggests that history can only be thought through as a permanent contradiction : it is a totality , but that totality is a decentred structure in dominance in which each history 's history is defined not through its identity with , or difference from , a general history but by being differentiated from every other history , on which it is necessarily also therefore dependent , in a kind of negative totalization . |
| 22 | A discipline that is structurally diverse , and consists of a loosely related collection of sub-fields might nevertheless be held together by a common ethos or set of norms , attitudes and habits ; even by a common style . |
| 23 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 24 | The six runners up will soon be kitted out with a Rohan Gobi Wear outfit consisting of a lightweight breathable jacket and a pair of lightweight active trousers . |
| 25 | The lavatory could thus be flushed even during a rainless summer , either by an attendant outside the lavatory or by the user ( Figure 21 ) . |
| 26 | Out-door paupers should no longer be sent away with a sum of money obviously too little for survival . |
| 27 | On the available evidence , the council 's policy after Edward 's death can best be summed up as a strenuous effort to preserve the balance of power established in the king 's second reign , and this was surely ( pace Mancini ) in response to the dead king 's own wishes . |
| 28 | On the available evidence , the council 's policy after Edward 's death can best be summed up as a strenuous effort to preserve the balance of power established in the king 's second reign , and this was surely ( pace Mancini ) in response to the dead king 's own wishes . |
| 29 | So what I 'm saying is erm I happen to think that the A L O stuff is some of the most valuable stuff that we do , it 's really one of the main ways forward and if we just sit back and do nothing about it it 's gon na just be wiped out at a a swipe . |
| 30 | Centuries of oppression could not just be wiped out by a legislative dictate . |