Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 2 | We have a Prime Minister with un-Thatcherlike understatement , and wily pragmatism and body language of the friendly bank manager next door , or so says an article in today 's Guardian . |
| 3 | Therefore , it is fair to ask why we are so keen on public transport if all experience over the past decade or so shows a fall in rail and bus passenger services and traffic in rural areas and in cities . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) Any person who resists or wilfully obstructs a constable in the execution of his duty , or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty , shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to both . ’ |
| 5 | The Mental Health Act 1983 contains a somewhat similar offence of ill-treating or wilfully neglecting a patient in a mental hospital , which has a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | But he also sub-divided these manifold elites into a governing elite , composed of all leaders who directly or indirectly play a part in ruling the society , and a non-governing elite who make up the remainder of the elites ( 1935 , vol. 3 , pp. 1422 — 4 ) . |
| 7 | But she has to run 23.30 secs or faster to secure a place in the British team for Barcelona and , still hampered by an Achilles tendon injury , she does n't think she 'll do it . |
| 8 | Paris-based Advanced Computer Research International SA , Jacques Stern 's new company that also has a base in Lyon and is designing a massively parallel processor around Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC ( CI No 2,101 ) , yesterday announced an agreement with Cray Research Inc to develop Fortran 90 compilers and applications for use on parallel systems . |
| 9 | He adds that ‘ There is little doubt that here existed a town in the time of the Britons ’ and a settlement grew around the Druidic university which according to Peck was the ancient British city of Doorebriff , meaning ‘ sharp stream ’ . |
| 10 | Apart from the fact that I think most people were able to afford a far bigger range of furnishings , for instance , the number of homes that actually had a carpet in the living room , there was very small percentage of people who could afford to have any sort of carpeting except for a small square of something in their living room . |
| 11 | But the rise in the rate of interest will do something else too : it will depress investment expenditure and thereby cause a fall in aggregate demand . |
| 12 | For that investment the member gets a stake in the club and in the freehold , and thereby has a say in how it is run . |
| 13 | This is explained if malabsorbed polysaccharides are fermented to short chain fatty acids , most of which are rapidly absorbed , decreasing the colonic osmotic pressure and thereby preventing an increase in faecal water . |
| 14 | Those without work are excluded from building up savings , whether in the form of a house or an adequate pension , and thereby gaining a stake in society . |
| 15 | Battles are rare , and mostly involve a stallion in his prime making a determined effort to wrest the harem from an older stallion . |
| 16 | This would give greater predictability to litigants and presumably effect a reduction in the amount of judicial time devoted to these matters . |
| 17 | He had been so determined to be ungullible , city-wise that perhaps he had gone too far in the other direction , and so read a threat in everything the big city had to offer . |
| 18 | The boards and commissions that run these organizations are commonly appointed by ministers and so provide an increase in ministerial patronage . |
| 19 | If , however , it is genuine , convinced , voluntary consent that is being sought , then free and open discussion can not be avoided , for what genuine consent needs is that people should feel quite free to voice their doubts and opposition , if only to create a situation in which there is the possibility of overcoming such doubts and hostility . |
| 20 | They are also charged that on or before Tuesday , March 2 , they conspired at Walford Road and elsewhere to cause an explosion in the UK and with possessing a ‘ quantity of Semtex ’ at the Stoke Newington flat . |
| 21 | The highest earning dealers only take back OTC stock if their client needs the funds to pay for another stock ; or if it is a stock that the directors want back , so allowing the dealers to retrieve in their names , and thus to evade a cut in their own commissions . |
| 22 | It could , if it wished , provide assistance at a ‘ penal ’ rate , forcing institutions to charge higher interest rates to their customers and thus communicating a rise in interest rates throughout the market . |
| 23 | There is considerable dissension in the literature as to what precisely constitutes desertification ; Kovda ( 1980 ) , for example , uses the term to describe land aridisation which involves all the processes that culminate in a reduction of the effective moisture content of soils and thus cause a decrease in biological productivity . |
| 24 | Oxidation is the process whereby an atom or ion loses an electron and thus acquires an increase in its positive charge or decrease in its negative charge . |
| 25 | and just do a bed in the corner I thought |
| 26 | So funct the functional form test will see erm will tell us whether we ought to possibly log the data or whether we ought to unlog the data and just do a regression in er er in absolute levels as opposed to logs . |
| 27 | I think we 've decided we , we will , we will go to the cinema and probably see J F K , er and just have a snack in er , and go save the meal up and have er , that later in the month . |
| 28 | Macmillan became Minister of Housing and Local Government ( the term ‘ Town and Country Planning ’ having now been dropped ) and soon introduced a Bill in very similar terms . |
| 29 | Earlier in the century , while still a young man , he returned to England , disapproved of the climate , and finally bought a chalet in the south of France . |
| 30 | The Conservatives now have six representatives on the local council , where they are the largest party , and desperately need a victory in North Down on Thursday to establish themselves in the province . |