Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am only using jumping as an example . |
| 2 | So wherever I go I 've only got quarter of an hour . |
| 3 | Section 40(1) permits the court only to award compensation on an application made by the employee which inter alia establishes that the latter made the patented invention which is of outstanding benefit to the employer and that ‘ by reason of those facts it is just that the employee should be awarded compensation ’ . |
| 4 | Answer machine only takes quarter of an hour |
| 5 | Thirst is a more imperative drive , intruding into dreams even when the subjects know full well that they are merely taking part in an experiment , and that water will be available in the morning . |
| 6 | I met Chapman on his way to the Zandvoort prize-giving and said I 'd take the job — basically to turn Lotus into an engine manufacturer — if it was still available . |
| 7 | THE school holiday are drawing to a close so take advantage of an offer from Red Funnel ferries and give the kids something to talk about when the new term starts by popping across to the Isle of Wight . |
| 8 | The key point remains , however : research is seldom driven by curricular considerations , but is normally given direction by an interest structure based on academic careers and the public use of knowledge . |
| 9 | These modes can thus give rise to an Ikeda instability ( which will now have a period rather than 2tR ) provided these modes are resolved into two gain peaks : a high-finesse resonator is thus required for this version of the Ikeda instability , which gives rise to chaos via a period-doubling cascade in parameter regions corresponding to the upper branch of optical bistability { 23 } . |
| 10 | This requires us going through these with toothcombs as we 've frequently already got access as an exception in them . |
| 11 | Can I , can I just draw attention to an error under paragraph one nine two , the date at the beginning of the second line should be first December , sorry first October , nineteen ninety three , not tenth of December . |
| 12 | This problem is usually solved by having a " hive-up " ( or transfer ) of the business from Target to Newco after the acquisition , Newco thus starting life as an investment company and becoming a trading company ; but a hive-up creates its own tax complications . |
| 13 | We did n't look at them , we just chose death as an end point because it 's the easiest end point to choose . |
| 14 | Just as a doctor may decide to switch off a life support machine because the patient is in effect dead , so care workers could ‘ switch off ’ the services on which the old person is totally dependent for care in the community , thus making admission to an institution inevitable . |
| 15 | The negative sign involves a perturbation to 5 which reverses each tR , and thus gives rise to an oscillation with period 2tR . |
| 16 | I mean it was what , what and if you go through all the papers you can see that , that Robert Maxwell really saw that self regulation erm legislation being that he could finally get control through an investment management company of his pension funds . |
| 17 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 18 | Unions became registered , thereby conferring access to an arbitration tribunal , and once registered they were largely protected from the emergence of new , rival organisations.8 As a result , the system of registration led to the early establishment and subsequent continuation of a large number of small unions and , as a secondary consequence , helped to impede amalgamation and union rationalisation . |
| 19 | His successor , Yuri Andropov , who died after only 15 months in office , initiated a national debate on reform , though still in guarded terms ( today 's undergraduate students who have become accustomed to Gorbachev 's candour can hardly make sense of an Andropov speech — yet at the time his pronouncements seemed rich in fresh insights ) . |
| 20 | A friend once likened life in an auction house to a swan : it glides serenely through the water while below , unseen , its feet are thrashing wildly . |
| 21 | Until 1861 a man could hang for engaging in homosexual relations , and as recently as the early 1970s many doctors still regarded homosexuality as an illness to be treated by electric shock therapy . |
| 22 | ‘ HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX WITH AN ANIMAL ? ' |
| 23 | ‘ Have you ever had sex with an animal ? ’ |
| 24 | Paradoxically , he had once used Rain in an attempt to take his mind off Vanessa . |
| 25 | But she still finds time for an exercise class and yoga to keep her looking young . |
| 26 | Like the first type , it always implies incidence to an actualizer of the infinitive event , someone or something which would have been explicitly expressed as the subject had the verb been finite . |
| 27 | His solicitor quickly gave notice of an appeal on the grounds that he is not mentally ill , a process that could take months to complete . |
| 28 | In natural first language acquisition , the child , growing up through involvement in naturally recurrent events , learns about the world through language and concomitantly learns language through an engagement with the world . |
| 29 | Ministers must always find time for an Opposition motion of censure but such a motion is inappropriate for some matters . |
| 30 | Responsibility was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Movement — Bayt al-Maqdis ( Jerusalem ) , which had also claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli tour bus in Egypt in February 1990 [ see pp. 37265-66 ] , and which in late October had been declared illegal in Israel and the occupied territories . |