Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Datachase " had three main objectives : to encourage young people to learn about environmental issues ; to help students develop presentation and creative skills through the use of computers , and to demonstrate how problems can often be most successfully solved as a result of collaborative effort . |
| 2 | The dispute became more intense in early July after Prince Sihanouk announced his approval of a Khmer Rouge plan for equal quadripartite power-sharing on the SNC , thereby effectively reneging on an agreement signed with the SOC Premier Hun Sen in Tokyo in early June [ see pp. 37532-33 ] . |
| 3 | It was most colourfully embodied in a parable of a white man shipwrecked on an island inhabited by ‘ negroes ’ : |
| 4 | Strictly speaking , this alternative ‘ mental ’ element is not a mens rea requirement at all , although it is properly enough described as a fault element . |
| 5 | The most outspoken supporters of these methods , such as John Holt would argue that learning involves activity , one of the elements most obviously lacking in a classroom dominated by ‘ chalk , talk and writing ’ . |
| 6 | He was not only widely respected as a critic but also regarded with affection for the genuine humility which made him always interested in others ' opinions . |
| 7 | The Williams family have been here since 1797 , when Robert Williams bought the manor of Littlebredy , which had long since degenerated into a farmhouse . |
| 8 | Eh , , I mean there 's a idea the money that 's been spent on the railways instead of on motorways we 'd be a lot better off , and I think and Partners subscribed to that because I think that erm , had more money being spent on the railways that we would have been much better off , oh I 'd much rather go on a train journey than on a motor bridge journey . |
| 9 | It 's selling half a million snails every year , and they 're becoming so widely accepted as a food that they 're even being sold on the supermarket shelves . |
| 10 | He felt guilty as he thought of Maeve 's sweet face , and embarrassed that he should be so powerfully attracted to a woman dedicated to God . |
| 11 | JOHN UPSON 'S horses have been so badly hit by a throat infection that only six out of his 30-strong string are fit to run . |
| 12 | Now is it not they 'll ask you , reasonable to recycle some of those savings and surely regain the into the provision of those ten fire officers that the service so badly needs for a number of years now the Fire Inspector 's report has identified the confidence levels as we in our service . |
| 13 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 14 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 15 | She had not even been in the country long enough to register with a doctor . |
| 16 | Furthermore , there was a danger that they would stay in service long enough to qualify for a retirement pension — an even more expensive proposition . |
| 17 | ‘ He forgot about his bleeding arm long enough to get on a horse and run , ’ fitzAlan said grimly , retrieving his cloak and swiftly re-tying the pack . |
| 18 | I 'd say what we can see is some of that heat surviving long enough to escape through a cave mouth , ’ she said to Ace . |
| 19 | lies in the fact that ‘ the offspring behave like wolves and look like dogs … this ‘ camouflage ’ gives them a tremendous competitive advantage because , as ‘ dogs ’ , they can approach garbage dumps in populated areas or herds of sheep without anyone taking special notice , much less reaching for a rifle ’ . |
| 20 | After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal . |
| 21 | So Phormio 's action in making the alliance , though only a pawn penetration , was an offensive move against Corinth deep in her own , Adriatic , side of the colonial chess-board ; and it was perhaps defensively conceived with an eye to a further-flung Corinthian colony , Syracuse . |
| 22 | For these reasons , Coffin is perhaps better seen as a case in which the Divisional Court , contrary to the evidence , concluded that the situation was such that a breach of the peace was likely , and that the officers were seeking to prevent that at the time when the assault took place . |
| 23 | There are two good examples of this in the British Museum 's Roman sculpture collections : the ‘ Spinario ’ , a boy removing a thorn from his foot , and ‘ Clytie ’ , long taken to be a portrait of the emperor Claudius ' mother , the younger Antonia , but perhaps better identified as a personification of one of the nations defeated by Augustus . |
| 24 | However , up to the time of his partnership agreement with Scott , he had only completed approximately ten buildings , and was perhaps better known as a writer and administrator . |
| 25 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 26 | Indeed , Darwin 's proposal is much better seen as a theory about the origin of adaptations than as a theory about the origin of species . |
| 27 | The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law ? |
| 28 | His examples include [ 11 ] , which is not so obviously related to an apposition of phrases : If [ 11 ] is an example of apposition , then the assumption that cases of loose apposition are reductions of non-restrictive or appositive relative clauses can not be maintained . |
| 29 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 30 | It was pleasant to stroll around on an evening such as this , thinking productively about the work which would make his name ( and his fortune ) and restore to him the sense of achievement he had so greatly enjoyed as an undergraduate journalist and Union wit . |