Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already said that a 24-h interval is not enough for such a loss to be seen . |
| 2 | Only through such a position of critical self-evaluation can the restricted epistemological validity of one 's position , and its possible ideological strains , be recognised for what it is . |
| 3 | The wound was clean and dressed ; there was no point in keeping him inside with such a shortage of hospital beds . |
| 4 | Margaret , a 58-year-old housewife , was admitted deeply unconscious to a general hospital after having taken a very large overdose of a mixture of tranquillizers , antidepressants , and paracetamol , together with half a bottle of vodka . |
| 5 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 6 | Shortly after this a number of the members of the YCCC bundled into a car and drove the several hundred miles from Bell County , Kentucky to Newmarket , Tennessee for an impromptu Sunday meeting with Highlander staff . |
| 7 | In many ways it was an advantage to work broadly with such a mass of detail — cranes , windows , cars and a myraid of tower blocks . |
| 8 | It stated that the private houses , which formed the Foreign and Colonial Offices , were ‘ inadequate to the present extent of public business , in parts unsafe , and generally in such a state of dilapidation as to render it inexpedient to expend any large sum in their substantial repair ’ . |
| 9 | Just before this a number of leading members of that church had written to The Times declaring their disbelief in the Devil . |
| 10 | Collectors may well bid far more for such a piece of Maxwell memorabilia . |
| 11 | ‘ If you look at my map , ’ he said with a tinge of pride , ‘ you will see that all the incidents are still within half a mile of the Bab es Zuweyla . |
| 12 | Early in 1937 a group of prominent Liberals pressed such a policy on the Liberal Party Executive , their appeal for " Unity " being printed by the Party without comment . |
| 13 | Early in 1990 a group of people involved in various community organisations in West Belfast met informally to discuss the economic problems of the area . |
| 14 | But fields that have been heavily dosed with chemical weedkillers and fertilizers would take centuries to become home to such a wealth of wildlife . |
| 15 | Also in 1976 a symposium on physical problems of the urban environment ( Chandler , Cooke and Douglas , 1976 , p. 57 ) concluded that : |
| 16 | I am not saying that Christians subscribe openly to such a view of doubt . |
| 17 | So far as enterprises are concerned , their accounts are now in such a state of confusion that most of them no longer care about increases in their costs . |
| 18 | Since the most important acts of the Community require the concurrence of the Council , and since the prevailing understanding is that in relation to any matter which any member state considers to affect its own vital national interests , unanimity must prevail , the Community appears as at most a confederation with restricted , albeit important , powers . |
| 19 | Even in such a nursery of ambition Rees-Mogg stood out . |
| 20 | Far away in the darkness , a train sounded a horn , and it was a small proof of human existence , even at such a distance from her , even flashing past across the countryside powerless to assist to her . |
| 21 | There is indeed in all a welter of words ; and while some sections of the final documents had been intensely discussed , formulated and reformulated across several sessions , much else — quite inevitably — was barely discussed at all . |
| 22 | Late in 1941 a memorandum to the National Executive indicated , as might have been expected , that the main area of loss of membership was London and the home and eastern counties , where it had been most necessary to evacuate the population . |
| 23 | Plato 's ideal education , as we have seen , was founded precisely on such a distinction between the theoretical and the practical , between true knowledge and mere skills . |
| 24 | Who 'll come across on half a pint of beer . |
| 25 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |
| 26 | Well apart from half a slice of bread an so some orange . |
| 27 | A minor may sue for wages , piece work or for work as a servant ( s 47 of the 1984 Act ) , but apart from this a person under disability may not bring or defend proceedings , or counter-claim , except if a plantiff by his next friend or if a defendant by a guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 1(1) , ( 2 ) ) . |
| 28 | I welcome the hon. Member for Manchester , Withington ( Mr. Bradley ) to the Opposition Front Bench and look forward to many a debate with him . |
| 29 | It is plain that only a small community closely knit by ties of kinship , common sentiment , and belief , and placed in a stable environment , could live successfully by such a regime of unofficial rules . |
| 30 | The problem of morality is therefore above all a problem of organization ; we have to reconcile our conflicting impulses with one another , in such a way as to allow them collectively the greatest possible degree of satisfaction . |