Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply . |
| 2 | Even though Windows NT has not yet been released , 37% of the 1,000 or so participants in a Dun survey at UniForum believe NT will offer benefits not yet available under Unix . |
| 3 | This is usually done by a guillotine that cuts back a bundle of a dozen or so plants at a time , and it is not unusual to find the cut ends chopped and bruised rather roughly . |
| 4 | Because FM waves travel only 60 or so miles from a transmitter , they provide essentially a local pool of sound . |
| 5 | Recommendation ( ix ) calls upon local offices and the Department of Social Security to give higher priority to those entering residential care to make sure that their claims for income support are processed in good time so that people do not have weeks of worry or possibly weeks in a home without paying . |
| 6 | No one must own any horse other than a work horse ; arms were forbidden ; informers were planted in every community to report on breaches of regulations or even suspicions about a man 's trade or lack of it ; and in all cases of doubt , summary hanging was in order . |
| 7 | Short wavelengths are measured in millionths of a metre ( 10 -6 ; m or micrometre , m ) or even billionths of a metre ( 10 -9 ; m or nanometre , nm ) . |
| 8 | Education must , at all costs , eschew all tendencies or even appearances of a commitment to the maintenance and reproduction of the unjust social order and undemocratic value system to the overthrow of which we sacrificed so much in the struggle . |
| 9 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
| 10 | Equally the message conveyed by silence was increasingly one of indifference or even hostility in a world dominated by protest and the call to apostolic action . |
| 11 | This could involve an adjournment for legal aid application , social welfare report , referral to another solicitor , bail application or simply suggestions for a plea in mitigation . |
| 12 | A stepper motor is a very special type of motor that only rotates by a fraction of a turn for each pulse of power that is applied . |
| 13 | In the end , Palmerston had to modify the proposal so that only £30,000 for a portion of the site was voted , with £10,000 for necessary repairs to the old buildings . |
| 14 | Although perhaps Belinda with a bowl of fruit … ’ |
| 15 | The pictures Elizabeth took that day have become more than just snaps of a holiday that turned to horror . |
| 16 | 373 , 377b ) that both larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences involved ‘ consent ’ by the victim , because what is involved is consent to two different things . |
| 17 | Hair seems to be well-nigh everlasting , and so discovery of a tuft or two does not guarantee recent activity . |
| 18 | He has the personal directive of the King to develop the tourist-appeal of the site and already talks of a helicopter pad and a VIP 's ‘ cave ’ on one of the mountain summits . |
| 19 | But in an eleventh-hour move late on Friday afternoon — and just hours after a query about the situation from this column — VAT headquarters agreed to consider a new interpretation of the rules . |
| 20 | The Duke 's thumbnail had forced a small scar into the map at another crossroads , this one much closer to Brussels and just south of a village with the odd name of Waterloo . |
| 21 | The standard grief reaction going through the five phases of denial , anger , bargaining , depression and finally acceptance over a period of two years but sometimes with progressive insulation of emotions resulting in a sense of isolation . |
| 22 | The status quo position will often result in less relevant , less complete statements in favour of timeliness ; full financial statements favour relevance , completeness and possibly understandability at a cost both in terms of timeliness and actual expense . |
| 23 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 24 | the Buda was part of a combine , leased from the State by the manager and also part of a co-operative . |
| 25 | Burial was the most cherished right , although baptism ( and hence possession of a font ) and marriage were also important . |
| 26 | She saw women , old gnarled Italian housewives , who did not care about popularity , who were quite composed in the face of sour looks , getting fruit and vegetables and even meat at a quarter the price paid by her affable husband and she resolved to become one of these women . |
| 27 | Lists are not meant as explanations , although there is sometimes an implicit taxonomy and even theory in a list , and the theoretical starting point of this book emphatically does not lie in this list . |
| 28 | At present , transaction processing systems and monitors can only swap files — new capabilities in Tuxedo will likely address the ability to process transactions and even parts of a transaction in a CICS/6000 environment . |
| 29 | Expect to pay around £1.80 per foot for a Scots or Norwegian Pine and around £3 for a fir . |
| 30 | Suddenly , the crew noticed three humps breaking the surface of the water , and then part of a head draped with a growth that looked like seaweed . |