Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask any élite marathoner what he/she most wants after a race and the answer is very likely to be a massage . |
| 2 | Er where you 've got a note that obviously goes over a beat as in that one there |
| 3 | In cases involving the supply of goods ( which is the only case where consumer status makes a difference to the effect of a term in a standard term contract ) the definition is , of course , restricted by the third limb of the definition of " consumer " : the buyer only deals as a consumer if the goods are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 4 | The simplest form of cost system merely amounts to an analysis or separate cost record for each individual contract or development project . |
| 5 | The Shetland Islands , the most northerly part of the United Kingdom at sixty degrees north , lie well south the true Arctic , but still far enough north that in midsummer the sun only sets for an hour or two . |
| 6 | The sun is setting now , midnight sun ending a few weeks before , but it only disappears for an hour and even then it leaves behind its mark of golden twilight . |
| 7 | This only comes as a shock if we insist on seeing Theo in terms of sainthood . |
| 8 | The side uses the British Gas sports ground at Acton for home matches and normally plays on a Wednesday or Thursday evening during the season . |
| 9 | For example , if an SSR incorrectly refers to an SPR and closes it , then it will be necessary to create a new SPR based on the old one and also a new SSR which correctly responds to that SPR . |
| 10 | For example , if an SSR incorrectly refers to an SPR and closes it , then it will be necessary to create a new SPR based on the old one and also a new SSR which correctly responds to that SPR . |
| 11 | He does n't work you see — he just sits in an office and tells other people to work . |
| 12 | But Geoff , he do n't shout out or anything — he just waits for a bit till they finish their tea and then he shouts out ‘ Enjoy your tea then ’ , and as they look up he pisses a bit more and they go barmy . ’ |
| 13 | So he gets in a cab , he 's got nothing , he just gets in a cab and he goes , he 's sitting , sit sitting in the cab and the man goes what 's the matter ? |
| 14 | Although the Boss always fights with his Mob he still counts as a Character and his points cost must be reckoned with the Character points allowance . |
| 15 | In the Welsh hills , where the Severn still looks like a river and not the characterless drain it is in the middle and lower reaches , there was ice on the road , and this slowed us down considerably . |
| 16 | In some instances the photon quickly materialises as a quark and an antiquark , which turn into showers of observable particles such as protons and pi-mesons . |
| 17 | ‘ That hardly sounds like a problem when there are only two of us , ’ he drawled sardonically . |
| 18 | When the male of the group dies , the biggest female in the harem quickly changes into a male and takes over the group . |
| 19 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 20 | The effect of jitter in a digital system is to reduce precision , clarity , stereo imagery and that curious and almost indefinable property normally described as ‘ timing ’ and which loosely translates into a feeling that the musicians are not all on the same wavelength . |
| 21 | Within the developed street network , the evidence indicates a surprisingly wide range of buildings and a marked level of architectural pretension , though most of it clearly belongs in a third- or fourth-century context . |
| 22 | However , his belief that q clearly derives from a method that is less than reliable . |
| 23 | A small seat , which also serves as a kneeler when it is turned upside down , is a practical item which can be carried in one hand . |
| 24 | This fear also arises from a recognition that in certain types of work they will not be able to match the public 's expectations of competence , whether finding lost pets or settling disputes between neighbours . |
| 25 | Erm this head rail in addition to white , it also comes in a silver or aluminium . |
| 26 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Hundred Years of Solitude also begins with a childhood but it engages with a quite different feeling : |
| 27 | He has a budget generous enough to allow creative cooking with the likes of caviar , fresh asparagus and smoked salmon at his contract , and also works within an environment that he finds friendly and relatively stress-free . |
| 28 | I go about in a wheelchair and someone who pushes it very often goes into a shop and says , ‘ Look here , you have bought rather a lot of things I think you had better give a cheque for them — now I ? I write the cheque out , dear , and you shall sign it . ’ |
| 29 | The Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 re-enacts the earlier legislation and specifically defines insider dealing which is when an individual knowingly transacts in a security whilst in possession of unpublished price sensitive information relating to that security . |
| 30 | The same thing often happens to a manufacturer when he believes he can buy the public 's good opinion of him . |