Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second-year units involve both a treatment of general theories and concepts , and discussions of more concrete and practical issues such as Women . |
| 2 | Children of welfare-dependent single-parent families have neither a monopoly on juvenile crime nor a disdain for conventional values . |
| 3 | It had been reported to the Committee by schools operating such a series of tests that the motivation of their pupils was increased because tests at different levels provide both an incentive and evidence of progress over several terms . |
| 4 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that free markets need only a system of laws and not all that bureaucracy ? |
| 5 | More importantly , the different types of phonetic , metrical , syntactic and semantic parallelism in poetic language indicate iconically a connection of meaning between the terms involved , and thus point to or reinforce the analogies between disparate elements from which , in his opinion , so much of the effect of poetry derives . |
| 6 | Will all members with unpaid subscriptions please forward a remittance in the very near future . |
| 7 | Joint students do either a dissertation or a practical project . |
| 8 | This was a place where , in 1969 , a yearly junior season ticket for the three municipal courses cost just a fiver . |
| 9 | The fact that human beings have quite a variation of abilities and shortcomings attests to the fact that we are not all twisted in the same areas . |
| 10 | When self-regard is so shatteringly undermined , the symbols of a former shaky greatness become almost an affront . |
| 11 | Thus the descriptions of a language which are the output of a first-order application of linguistic theory represent only an inventory from which a selection must be made in order to draw up the syllabus for any particular teaching operation . |
| 12 | In the broadest terms , it has been concerned with one aspect of youth history : how and why , and with what consequences for age relations , middle-class reformers put together a number of images of working-class adolescents . |
| 13 | Yet most of the people who sink huge quantities of beer wine and spirits in their own living rooms give hardly a thought to the damage it causes their health . |
| 14 | Could there be an application for the observation that most methylated purines give neither a peak nor an inflexion on cathodic stripping voltammetry ? |
| 15 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 16 | The odd thing is that the larval eels take around a year and a half to make the passage . |
| 17 | In fact , in this company division , cost-accounting had in recent years become pre-eminently a pre-investment activity , but this obviously was a function of the nature of the business . |
| 18 | Five years later , the new albums represent neither an expansion nor a retreat but a hesitant reluctance to set out anew . |
| 19 | Modern English have quite a history . |
| 20 | The local authorities spend over a quarter of public expenditure and have been a major source of control problems . |
| 21 | Strapping lads cast away a problem |
| 22 | With 64,000 people crammed into every square mile , the most utterly bizarre happenings raise barely a shrug of the shoulders . |
| 23 | The profits won by the producer , which in the short-run view seem clearly a monopoly rent attributable to the monopolized resource , turn out to be , in the long-run view , the profits of competitive entrepreneurship . |