Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes turn the possibility of this over in my mind , but only rarely does a suitable piece of information present itself . |
| 2 | But whereas calypso now only rarely contains a political message reggae almost always does . |
| 3 | The Cartesian cogito — cogito ergo sum ( I think therefore I am ) — conventionally if somewhat simplistically marks a major point in the emergence of Western individualism . |
| 4 | She has managed their staff restaurant for 18 years , so obviously has a great relationship with our clients . |
| 5 | Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out . |
| 6 | As much as he is thoroughly yankified , known to all the world as Jimmy Lin , with his high-rise apartment on the Upper West Side and scarcely a trace of an accent , he none the less still feels a strong connection to his native island . |
| 7 | We know however that what actually happens is that the anxiety only ever reaches a certain level and then levels off , forming a plateau . |
| 8 | It is in our interests as designers in this field to ensure that the ‘ pub tradition ’ that we all hold so dear remains a living tradition . |
| 9 | The research on this subject so far gives a mixed answer ( Campbell 1985 , Baum and Cope 1980 , Kiernan 1989a ) . |
| 10 | The main season for preparing annual reports and accounts will soon be with us — the year end of 83 of the FTSE Top 100 companies falls between 31 December and 31 March — so now seems a good time for finance directors to assess whether their annual tome is user friendly . |
| 11 | If only Cassan can get him safely through the speed leg , which so often plays a decisive part in the overall result , he looks as though he would relish the bigger obstacles expected for the second and third legs . |
| 12 | The person inside so often retains a strong feeling of individuality and continuity , as demonstrated by the poem ‘ The Crabbit Old Woman ’ ( Carver and Liddiard , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | Thus an electronic system that passes signals at frequencies up to only modestly distorts a rectangular pulse of duration τ between its input and output . |
| 14 | Just as a weak muscle needs repeated exercise , so too does a weak imagination . |
| 15 | At present in the UK , each company has a board of directors which manages its affairs ; directors are elected , and may be removed , by shareholders in general meeting , and a general meeting normally also has a residual power , by a special resolution ( proposed as such and carried by a 75 per cent majority of the shares voted ) , to give a management direction to the board . |
| 16 | Hanson lost out to Tomkins in its last big bid , for Ranks Hovis MacDougall , and anyway now has a lowly share rating with a yield well above the market average at about six per cent . |
| 17 | The analysis still only concerns a small region contained within thin tubes around the homoclinic orbit . |
| 18 | Windmills share these limitations with other cylindrical structures such as lighthouses and martello towers and these qualities have tended to cause most owners of these types of buildings to regard the tower form as only one element of a new house created from the salvaged structure , the remainder of the accommodation being a newly built extension which more suitably houses a spacious entrance hall , additional bedrooms and , possibly , an attached garage . |
| 19 | I doubt whether he ever deliberately touches a human body except his own . |
| 20 | This is sometimes described by saying that the church has at last entered a ‘ post-Constantinian era ’ , an era in which the synthesis of Christianity and western culture and society ushered in by Constantine , the first Christian Emperor of Rome , has finally dissolved , and the church once more represents a social minority in an increasingly pluralistic age . |
| 21 | The NVALA 's long-term goal has been the re-establishment of a society in which the Church once more occupies a central role . |
| 22 | Although now believed not to be the gene responsible for FAP , MCC still clearly represents a common site for mutagenesis , and may therefore be another colorectal tumour suppressor gene . |
| 23 | But introducing a classificatory element almost always radically improves a descriptive essay . |
| 24 | A three-hour three-course lunch saturated with gin and tonic , Chablis and Rémy-Martin might be enjoyable once a month , but more frequently becomes a dangerous chore . |
| 25 | In others it more commonly invites a searching look into the here-and-now , or at least into worlds close enough to be remembered . |
| 26 | On closer inspection this turned out to be the L'Chaim Society , a Jewish good-time gang which presumably also has a stout approach to Judaism . |
| 27 | Britain 's ‘ first past the post ’ system ( FPTP ) nearly always produces a single-party government with an overall , and solid , Commons majority . |
| 28 | As , however , social classes are unevenly distributed over the map of Britain , then the politics of distribution also quickly becomes a geographical matter implicitly , if not explicitly through spatial policies . |
| 29 | Microsoft also now plans a new version of MS-DOS for early next year that will lack most of the features that had been expected in the MS-DOS 6.0 release , such as multi-tasking , and the company will now offer its object-oriented Cairo environment only for NT , and not for MS-DOS . |
| 30 | He now also has a suspended fine of Pounds 1,500 hanging over him until 1994 . |