Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adv] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | er Irene was er , erm bath on a Tuesday and Ron usually goes , Ron does n't stay in very long , Irene just goes for about half an hour so she said Ron is n't coming to the bath today , he 's got a bad throat , and I never thought to say , how is his throat this |
2 | He flinches for only half a second , but it 's enough to take me inside the hall . |
3 | ‘ This looks like as good a spot as any , ’ Matthew decided . |
4 | If the market wants to back such a scheme the market will back it . |
5 | Do you find that when you 're sitting down on a hard floor and you stand up yeah and your arse hurts for about half an hour ? |
6 | At high temperatures , the spaces between the solvent molecules have to be reduced if mixing is to take place and when this eventually results in too great a loss of entropy , phase separation occurs . |
7 | It depends upon how such a change is theorized and this , in turn , is related to different theoretical accounts of how the economy changes and how it is organized . |
8 | But a lot depends on how good a job Claris does when it comes to adding the final gloss . |
9 | Much now depends on how active a role the US is prepared to play to chivvy Israel along to respond to the Egyptian proposals . |
10 | So the best answer we can give to our question depends on how high a particle energy we have at our disposal , because this determines on how small a length scale we can look . |
11 | The inconvenience which this causes can normally be reduced only by delaying the binding of serial parts until they can be considered to be no longer ‘ current ’ , or by ensuring that the time which they spend off the shelves ‘ at binding ’ exceeds by as small a margin as possible the time required physically to bind them . |
12 | Journey time varies between around half an hour to an hour and a quarter . |
13 | According to Wittgenstein , this initial belief is as incoherent as the solipsist 's claim to be able to set up a private language , since it relies upon too great a gap between our behaviour ( including linguistic behaviour ) and internal mental life . |
14 | Foucault is most explicit on this , arguing that what he terms the ‘ repressive hypothesis ’ regarding Victorian sexuality is misleading : because it points to too narrow an interpretation of the family ; because it avoids class differentiation ; and because it is based on a negative rather than positive concept of power . |
15 | The increased seating capacity which would be provided by even an extra fifty coaches leaving a town over ten to twenty years , at a time of rapid urban population increase , points to how tiny a fraction of the population ever travelled by stage coach . |
16 | Met someone today , the third of a partnership trio in which I have had contact with two over the years for different reasons and he said look in re CV for i/view practice if I want — he was with a local enterprise company helping with startups and job searches and now voluntarily helps with just such a counselling group via one of the big churches in Edinburgh for redundant executives — the figure quoted to me recently re architects in Scotland is that forty per cent are redundant . |
17 | So the best answer we can give to our question depends on how high a particle energy we have at our disposal , because this determines on how small a length scale we can look . |
18 | The clerk behind the screen works with only half a mind functioning . |