Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] an [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 2 | Outer London authorities were mostly likely to report a decrease in allocation of money : only Wales and Northern Ireland uniformly reported no decreases , while Northern Ireland authorities were the only group uniformly to report an increase in expenditure . |
| 3 | There should therefore be a significant and fluctuating gravitational red shift of the pulsar period P : which numerically has an amplitude of order . |
| 4 | It will attempt to identify those policies which are likely to be most effective in this and other countries , and thereby to provide an input into technology and economic policy-making . |
| 5 | Failure to do so constitutes an invasion of personality which the state is not entitled to commit if its claim to respect individual rights is to be taken seriously . |
| 6 | The total student population of 90 000 helps greatly to preserve an element of life and change in a city where one quarter of the population is over 66 . |
| 7 | ‘ If you only got an apple for Christmas during the depression ’ , said Mr Perot , ‘ you understood your parents loved you . |
| 8 | Or is Bailey merely articulating an ideology of Bohemianism for the arts and of undirected radicalism for social and political thought in general ? |
| 9 | The analysis gives a maximum condition so generating an envelope of certainty ( see Figure 5.12 ) . |
| 10 | The example below reserves an area of memory 100 bytes long and sets P% to the first byte of the reserved area . |
| 11 | Jennifer Owen argues convincingly that this amounts to a very significant area of habitat , she shows clearly and simply how it may be improved , and for the dedicated wildlife gardener she says enough to encourage an attempt at recording . |
| 12 | Commercial valuations , albeit based on established principles , necessarily involve an element of negotiation . |
| 13 | Commercial valuations , although based on established principles , necessarily involve an element of negotiation . |
| 14 | But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority . |
| 15 | But as President Bush puts more goods on the counter for us with his TV spiel about ’ … our culture , our sense of history … rolling green fields , sandy white beaches , red-hot jazz , ’ is he selling caviare to a market that only has an appetite for candy floss ? |
| 16 | Christianity , as we have seen , necessarily has an anchor in history . |
| 17 | You 'd better swear an oath of secrecy , or Nicola Schreider will not be amused to find out Guy 's been playing away even before they 're married ! ’ |
| 18 | Yet they are like the cases which follow in that they do not directly ask the trustee to do anything , but none the less cause an obligation under trust to arise in him . |
| 19 | This will raise its retailer 's costs , so causing an increase in price and reduction in output . |
| 20 | The Pic du Midi has long had an observatory on top , a very substantial structure indeed and occupied since I 88 I , after the scientists who started it had got into the arduous habit of spending their winters up here in a small hotel . |
| 21 | Scant attention has been given to the way in which man 's attitude to death feeds back into his life and so exerts an influence upon society . |
| 22 | The Government have made clear their opposition and abhorrence for the fatwa to which the hon. Gentleman referred , but he differs from the view of his colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench if he wishes to stop trade or perhaps impose an embargo on trade with Iran or , indeed , any other country . |
| 23 | But it may be doubted whether he necessarily commits an offence under section 4 should he fail to do so . |
| 24 | Nor will an exclusion of participation in dividends beyond a fixed preferential rate necessarily imply an exclusion of participation in capital ( or vice versa ) although it will apparently be some indication of it . |
| 25 | Auditors will also be able to give an opinion without resolution of all uncertain matters so removing an argument for delay . |
| 26 | These are added to washing powders only to give an illusion of whiteness . |
| 27 | A bird sitting on a runway can only detect an increase in sound when the plane is just 600 to 800m away . |
| 28 | Sideways movement would produce much smaller variations , enough to give an image of vitality and movement . |
| 29 | Tony Bailey , when he was talking just now , talked in terms of schools perhaps having an element of democracy within them . |
| 30 | In the history of the sciences in France , as in German critical theory , it is a matter at bottom of examining a reason , the autonomy of whose structures carries with it a history of dogmatism and despotism — a reason , consequently , which can only have an effect of emancipation on condition that it manages to liberate itself from itself . |