Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I had seen into paradisiac regions , with their air and sky , and I was no longer wholly or merely a denizen of this vulgar earth .
2 Most servicing valves have an internal ball with a hole through it , so that just a quarter of a turn is needed to move the valve from fully open to fully closed .
3 The medium carries the paint evenly , so that just a touch of colour can be introduced to the medium to make a transparent glaze layer .
4 Motability has arranged special schemes with motor manufacturers , wheelchair manufacturers , insurance brokers , and other so that today a variety of schemes can be offered which not only help disabled people become mobile but also give them a chance to be truly independent .
5 The procedures for assessment and the evaluation of educational needs have become more formalised since the 1981 Education Act so that now a report from a qualified teacher of visually handicapped children is a requirement of the assessment procedure for a child whose learning or development is affected by defective sight .
6 However , autonomous replication occurs in only 50-70% of the transformants , suggesting a defect in the recognition of the Tetrahymena telomeric template by the putative P. anserina telomerase so that only a fraction of entering DNA is stabilized into linear extrachromosomal molecules .
7 This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking .
8 Therefore we command you to cause trees to be felled in that dense part , and a ride to be made to the least possible damage of the forest , so that henceforth a way through those parts may be open for travellers without danger .
9 The Executive Committee shall meet not less than twice a year in every calendar year : decide its own procedure : elect its own Chairman and Vice-Chairman , each of whom may hold the office for a maximum period of four consecutive years .
10 At each level in this hierarchy we find both a dependence on those subjects which lie below and also a claim to a degree of autonomy for the concepts which are specific to that level .
11 So and so a number on a yellow or a blue or a red , yeah I 've seen it .
12 However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax .
13 America , where there appear to be more grossly obese people than in Britain ( by which I mean those around double their desirable body weight , rather than just a couple of stones overweight ) , is an excellent place to observe this eating-speed phenomenon .
14 This creates a network of all possible word sequences rather than just a tree of isolated words .
15 Stanley William Hayter is broadly acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century printmaking , on three counts : his technical innovations , especially in intaglio colour printing ; the encouragement of artists from Miró to Pollock and beyond to treat printmaking as a means of original expression ( rather than just a way of reproducing images ) ; and a remarkable body of prints produced over six decades , which attest to his broad interests in mythology , the workings of the unconscious , and the new mathematics .
16 It gives due weight to action research as a process rather than just a set of things to do .
17 It also manages to tie the Alps together as one whole , treating them as a range of mountains rather than just a list of routes .
18 You may find it more pleasing and effective to range together a selection of complementary shapes , rather than just a hotchpotch of squares , circles , ovals and rectangles .
19 With the reading of Hippolytus and the cracking of the outer shell of his cheerful , hard-working , no-nonsense self , introspection was running riot and ‘ spiritualism ’ — by which he clearly meant dabbling in affairs of the spirit rather than solely a preoccupation with the dead — had , by the summer of 1929 , taken a firm grip on him .
20 As a result of Nicaea , Rome became the official centre of Christian orthodoxy , and any deviation from that orthodoxy became a heresy , rather than merely a difference of opinion or interpretation .
21 For Gramsci , law reflects economic relations , and it is eternally and generally a weapon of class domination , a classical Marxist position .
22 The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change .
23 This is designer socialism : the belief that buying tassled loafers rather than winklepickers , is somehow as much a PR of the struggle as being on the picket line at Wapping .
24 Well , the crisis has arisen because we have both locally and nationally a shortage of teachers , both permanent teachers and supply teachers .
25 I am more or less a consultant to them . ’
26 Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese .
27 This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ .
28 I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul
29 In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word .
30 That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’
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