Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , neutron activation analysis ( see glossary ) , one of the techniques used to determine the composition of ancient ceramics , would be impossible without a computer program , since the calculations required are so complex and extensive that not even the most resilient individual armed with a pocket calculator could possibly complete them in a single lifetime . |
| 2 | He was not the most guilty man to pull on a navy-blue jersey , but he was hardly an angel either . |
| 3 | The most striking activity undertaken on a frontier without consulting royal authority — perhaps the most striking event in the whole history of European expansion — was the conquest of most of the American continent south of the Tropic of Cancer in the space of a single generation by a succession of Spanish military leaders . |
| 4 | I mean you ca n't actually examine the options without asking the question so , I mean I just think that 's a rather foolish point to introduce into a into the debate there . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly these rather different agenda reflected to a certain extent divisions between the needs of teachers operating out of humanities computing and history departments , respectively . |
| 6 | Short of buying special , commercially prepared cat-repellent sprays from a local pet shop , it is the best weapon available . |
| 7 | Racing : Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe : Britain 's faith in Class value : Europe 's richest race brings another opportunity for Britain 's most fearless trainer to tilt at a top prize . |
| 8 | I was also sent details of a most interesting menu served at a banquet for Prince Charles and the Prince 's Youth Business Trust held in Warwick Castle . |
| 9 | So each neuron responds to a particular pattern of activity in the cells that connect to it , and when this pattern occurs it signals the news to a group of cells lying in another part of the brain . |
| 10 | I closed my eyes and listened to the cracks and smashes until one especially loud thump ended in a low buzz telephones do n't usually make ; then I put the phone down again , turned , looked upward , and set wearily off , back up the stairs . |
| 11 | A fascinating and hitherto unpublished study exists of a day in the life of two northern Nigerian school age children ( R. Tabatchik 's ‘ Two Children , Two Days ’ ) . |
| 12 | Then , pipe or spoon inside the outlines so that icing floods into a tyre shape . |
| 13 | The overall effect is that the morally indefensible opportunist appears as a very human figure , a man who would have liked to have had his cake and eaten it and who , forced to make choices , alternates between self-congratulation and a sense of self-betrayal . |
| 14 | Today a player is simply a pawn , part of a highly organised unit working to a manager 's predetermined set of tactics . |
| 15 | So this opportunity depends on a difference of opinion : investors thinking that prices are going to carry on rising , while firms rush to exploit what they see as a temporary state of affairs . |
| 16 | One long straight road runs like a main vein down the arm of Grand Isle . |
| 17 | With so much information required in a business letter , the style of the printed material is of importance . |
| 18 | During this dual placement students meet children and their parents in the traditional setting of school and in the less structured setting provided by a youth club or city farm . |
| 19 | It is best to select a fairly dark , fine-grain veneer for the background since it is then less likely overall to read as a number of different pieces . |
| 20 | The first Melbourne station , at Spencer Street , was a somewhat larger three-span shed with a side building . |
| 21 | And all have a highly integrated design built within a robust metal cabinet . |
| 22 | ‘ I can not believe it , I have already had so many job offers as a result of taking part in . |
| 23 | After a pretentious dinner and a bad night — it is rare , I find , to get through even a fortnight 's motoring trip in France without at least one such disaster — spent in a highly unlikely establishment disguised as a cluster of Camargue guardian huts , we left before breakfast and spent a healing morning lost in the remaining lonely stretches of this once completely wild , mysterious , melancholy , half-land , half-water , Rhone estuary country . |
| 24 | Getting to the village was always a highly dramatic event witnessed by a yelling , clapping audience . |
| 25 | He had appeared in only five stage plays as a professional adult when he was called to Stratford-upon-Avon to play a full season of major Shakespearian roles . |
| 26 | Indeed , only one patient registered with a practice with a diabetic miniclinic had shared care with the hospital . |
| 27 | Where only one person lives in a property there will be a 25 per cent reduction . |
| 28 | As usual no one addressed Pétain unless he first addressed them , and only one person spoke at a time . ’ |
| 29 | In the public sector there is likely to be decentralization , and this is discussed below ; but typically , within any government jurisdiction , there is only one department engaged in a particular activity ( e.g. , issuing automobile licences ) . |
| 30 | Notice this is all one sentence presented as a paragraph . |