Example sentences of "[adv] a brief [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt suddenly a brief return of the closeness they had used to enjoy when the children were small and she still felt important to them and minded less his involvement with his work . |
| 2 | I ought to be on holiday , but I was n't : this was merely a brief interlude before I had to report to that wretched banker and enmesh myself in a host of false relationships in the Ingard office , to try to discover — what ? |
| 3 | By public demand their split became merely a brief sabbatical , and since being reunited the Blues Band have been playing their cocktail of traditional blues and original material around the globe . |
| 4 | Perhaps a brief reference to some of the careers in which former students have found historical skills and knowledge useful would not go amiss . |
| 5 | Like other models , its use requires an understanding of the system being modelled , and so a brief description of the land phase of the hydrological cycle is considered next . |
| 6 | It is essential to have a good appreciation of the possibilities of recent treatments , such as over-restoration or repatination , so a brief history of patination is given here . |
| 7 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 8 | Even then , they would only put in a brief appearance in puddings and cakes at Thanksgiving and Christmas . |
| 9 | Customers were asked to fill in a brief form stating whether they knew or had seen Mr McEvoy . |
| 10 | In the face of doubts about the truths of religion , could bereaved parents still take courage and assume that their children 's death meant only a brief separation , the prelude to reunion in happier surroundings ? |
| 11 | But it was only a brief pang . |
| 12 | Indeed , the movement as a whole had only a brief life , and by the 1690s it was already becoming past history . |
| 13 | In effect this is already starting to happen through television concentration on a few top clubs with only a brief nod in the direction of the rest . |
| 14 | Although the above extracts , which are taken from a more detailed investigation ( Osbourn , 1988 ) , provide only a brief description they do demonstrate the potential offered by RGT for exploration and education within the area of aesthetic appraisal . |
| 15 | There is space at the top of the column for only a brief description of the activity . |
| 16 | In this state the polymer exhibits several unique properties which are dealt with in chapter 14 and only a brief description of the chain behaviour in this region is given here . |
| 17 | I had only a brief opportunity of shaking his hand at the end , as I was obliged to rush back to Oxford before I was ‘ gated ’ . |
| 18 | Compulsory membership of a trade union , in force since 1936 with only a brief interlude , was to be abolished , and employers were to be released from their obligation to recognize or negotiate with unions or to be bound by pay awards negotiated at a national level . |
| 19 | He said he had only a brief look at the course before the race . |
| 20 | Only a brief outline of the main points which currently affect business executives can be given here . |
| 21 | What follows is therefore only a brief outline , with a closer examination of certain areas . |
| 22 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 23 | Details of this algorithm are described fully in Chapter Three , so only a brief outline is given here : |
| 24 | PCT and its associated RGT ( Repertory Grid Technique ) are thoroughly discussed elsewhere ( Bannister and Mair , 1968 ; Bannister and Fransella , 1974 ; Fransella and Bannister , 1977 ; Osbourn , 1980 and 1988 ; Gaines and Shaw , 1981 ; Shaw , 1980 and 1981 ; Thomas and Harri-Augstein , 1985 ) so that only a brief outline will be presented here . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's something about its jizz which makes me think it 's a … ’ is a very handy phrase when only a brief glimpse of the bird has been caught . |
| 26 | It was dark by the time the Loch Seaforth berthed at Stornoway and I had only a brief glimpse of the rugged Lewis coastline . |
| 27 | For example , it is necessary to hear only a brief phrase of some Grand Waltz by Tchaikovsky , Glinka or Strauss to know that steps of grande élévation are the object of the exercise ; to hear some slow pavane , minuet or saraband is to realise that an adage is being practised . |
| 28 | After only a brief time in this balmy atmosphere , Constance knew that she must stay . |
| 29 | The images lingered for only a brief time before changing , the Retreat demolished in the storm of stones and a new structure raised in the whirl : the Tower of the Tabula Rasa . |
| 30 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |