Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials are surely deluding themselves if they imagine that they can respond to the misalignment of a currency more swiftly than the markets . |
| 2 | It was the beginning of a love far deeper than he ever realised . |
| 3 | This little nugget of a book ( but all Boulestin books are nuggets ) contains some of Boulestin 's best writing about his own province and about the food of obscure country inns of a type now all but vanished . |
| 4 | The English had removed the head of a king as early as 1649 , and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 could be interpreted as an example of Rousseau 's ‘ general will ’ of the people triumphing over the Divine Right of Kings . |
| 5 | Kicking sand in the face of established practice , Jon Edgson is something of a rebel as far as interior design is concerned . |
| 6 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 7 | If approval for septic tanks can not be obtained , the only alternative will be sealed cesspools of a capacity not less than 4000 gallons . |
| 8 | Many women can ache for the love of a child more intensely than for the love of a man . |
| 9 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 10 | You are something of a legend here still and would be assured of a fine welcome , a passably good dinner , and a bed at my humble abode — plus travel expenses . |
| 11 | Using such techniques , we can determine the direction of a noise more accurately than any other animal , with a few notable exceptions , including the barn owl . |
| 12 | by the loading or unloading of a vehicle so far as concerns loading or unloading risk cover by a Motor Policy ; or |
| 13 | There is mention of a miller as late as 1937 , and evidence that the mill was in use for several years after that date . |
| 14 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 15 | He approaches the ideal of a landowner more nearly than all , save Lord Vieuxbois , who ‘ has much to learn ; and a little to unlearn ’ : |
| 16 | Executive controller for M & S Morrison Cherrie said ‘ Julie jumps at the drop of a hat as far as a job is concerned . |
| 17 | Which , it looks a hell of a lot better now than what it did before . |
| 18 | It is important to trace the history of a site as far as possible , and identify its present and previous uses . |
| 19 | Hundreds of tests were done by all sorts , shapes , and sizes of student volunteers to establish the validity of the method , which was then used to assess the performance of a rucksack more accurately than ever before . |
| 20 | Another variant is the shorthold tenancy , created by the Housing Act 1980 , whereby the lessor and lessee agree to a fixed-term letting of a period not less than one and not more than five years certain , carrying with it automatic security of tenure for the period agreed . |
| 21 | One of the most interesting and spectacular devices of the old farm horsemen was the stopping of a horse dramatically so that it would not move . |
| 22 | Anyway , they have not really the transport for a journey as far as this and in any case , they could not spare the time from work . ’ |
| 23 | Normally , a ride in a car , even a police car , would be something of a treat for a child particularly now that a gratifying crowd was beginning to collect to witness his notoriety , drawn by the yards of white tape which sealed off the whole of the south part of the church and by the police cars and the unmistakable black and sinister mortuary van parked between the church wall and the canal . |
| 24 | She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again . |
| 25 | Bob Platt and I pressed for a bowler as fiercely as we could , but to no avail . |
| 26 | The potential divergence between individual goals and organisational goals exists for a union as well as for a company . |
| 27 | These papal letters represent the high point in the campaign for a Church both spiritually and temporally independent of the lay ruler . |
| 28 | If you are acting for a mortgagee as well as for a buyer or borrower , then you prepare the mortgage deed at the same time as the transfer deed . |
| 29 | It was suggested that a letter be sent to the church council , asking for a notice lower down than at present , to be positioned to ensure ladies from other clubs , find the fifteenth tee . |
| 30 | Customs state , in their official publication , Single Market Report ( Special Edition , Christmas 1992 ) , that amendments to the draft regulations make it clear that the register refers only to temporary movements , ie for a period not longer than two years . |