Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A LITTLE goes a long way with UNICEF . |
| 2 | The extent to which either the adult or child within plays a significant part in our lives depends greatly on our own upbringing . |
| 3 | I 'm thinking , for example , it 's not a medicine as such , but I 'm thinking of the birth control pill , which presumably has a possible effect in its particular form over a period perhaps twenty years , rather than five years , on a person . |
| 4 | Bore-hole water rarely contains a large quantity of suspended solids , but , if it contains iron or manganese in solution , the removal of these entails the production of a precipitate that has to be removed by methods similar to those given above . |
| 5 | The colour black in all such cases was considered especially lucky because this was the colour associated with the occult practices , but herein lies a transatlantic contradiction for , in America , it is the white cat that is lucky and the black cat that is unlucky . |
| 6 | Herein lies a big problem for managers who must take steps to ensure that everyone understands the need for involvement — To this end a series of seminars and talks should be arranged in order to explain the issue , seek ideas and the commitment of everyone to meeting the challenge . |
| 7 | this soon tangles itself in a web of white noise and frantic improvisation which eventually has a hypnotising effect on the audience . |
| 8 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 9 | Isolating stallions from other horses obviously plays a large part in the aggression and even viciousness some stallions display towards mares . |
| 10 | If this is still the case next May he apparently wins a Swiss watch from The Sun in honour of the acheivement ! |
| 11 | Falling Down represents a New Brutalism in the cinema . |
| 12 | This not only produces a balanced form to the plant , carrying and showing the blooms to advantage , but reduces hindrance to air movement to a minimum . |
| 13 | This suggests that the quality of interhemispheric control merely represents a particular style of cerebral organisation which can certainly become a potential biological vehicle for psychotic disorder but which , in favourable circumstances , constitutes a brain mechanism responsible for the flexibility of thought found in some creative people . |
| 14 | In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect . |
| 15 | The environment you choose to learn in plays a crucial role in how well you progress . |
| 16 | Ethnography necessarily involves a narrow view of the group or institution studied , since the researcher can not , by definition , study the wider context within which the research setting is located . |
| 17 | The regulation of insider dealing necessarily involves a complex assessment of the available regulatory options . |
| 18 | It suggests that translating between languages with different priorities and different types of syntactic restrictions necessarily involves a great deal of skewing of patterns of information flow . |
| 19 | For though Burbank 's fall , that mere matter of crossing ‘ a little bridge ’ to a ‘ small hotel ’ ( my italics ) is a shrunken affair , lacking the panoramic mythological grandeur of the Shakespearian Antony 's , it none the less offers a stripped-down representation of that event . |
| 20 | But the objection here might be that the suggested paraphrase merely involves a surreptitious quantification over propositions . |
| 21 | If this were so , we could argue that the poem only represents a temporary loss of faith , instead of the turning-point in Wordsworth 's career . |
| 22 | Mercury currently only offers a single level of service termed ‘ primary rate ’ . |
| 23 | Anomie only offers a plausible account of deviant motivation if the cultural goal of success is as unidimensional as Merton suggests and if the pursuit of this goal is prevalent amongst those with blocked legitimate opportunities . |
| 24 | ‘ This obviously offers a great potential for sourcing products locally and for pursuing joint ventures either at home or abroad . ’ |
| 25 | Reynolds 's Newspaper viewed ‘ all the fuss and bother ’ as ‘ a mere club-house panic ’ , for example , while The Daily News repeatedly warned of the way in which ‘ a social panic naturally produces a great deal of wild excited talk ’ , believing that ‘ the enormous crop of exaggerated and fictitious stories ’ was ‘ furnishing food for farce writers and arrangers of pantomimes ’ : |
| 26 | One coach only needs a small amount of work to restore it to its original condition , but the other requires extensive work . |
| 27 | With its Seminar Centre in Scotland and close contact with many Scottish institutions , the Trust naturally has a particular interest in rural development in Scotland . |
| 28 | One candidate , for example , apparently has a full knowledge of the topic but fails the examination . |
| 29 | Volcanic clusters occur both on continental and oceanic lithosphere , and are particularly common on the African Plate which apparently has a high concentration of hot spots ( see Section 4.2.1 ) . |
| 30 | As Robinson ( 1985 , p. 42 ) puts it , ‘ the FMI merely adds a new twist to the whole question of … civil servants ’ answerability to Parliament' . |