Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The telson is present in the embryos of certain insects ( Fig. 41 ) , but it rarely persists as a discrete region ; it is evident , however , in the Protura , while traces are found in other insects . |
| 2 | In truth it does not denote any single right , but rather refers to a disparate group of immunities , which differ in nature , origin , incidence and importance , and also as to the extent to which they have already been encroached upon by statute . |
| 3 | In the summertime , it is alive with hot fumes and rampant dogs and fashionable bathers crawling up Highgate Road on their way to the Heath , where they claim respective ponds and languor till the sky slowly turns to a soothing summer gold . |
| 4 | I can only stress that when we return to our dingy little squats after a hard day baiting rock gods and ignoring letters from readers , there 's nothing we like better than a long listen to Pink Floyd 's ‘ Animals ’ or Mr Oldfield 's ‘ Ommadawn ’ while soaking our horny feet in a scalding bowl of mushroom chow mein . |
| 5 | The Z2 Carbonate is also widely known as the Hauptdolomit ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Rhys 1975 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Wagner et a/. 1978 ) but strictly speaking this name only refers to a particular part of the formation . |
| 6 | After an atmospheric Christmassy sequence slower than the rest , Arnold suddenly launches into a bold pastiche of West Indian pop music , steel band references and all . |
| 7 | If your statute obviously belongs to a particular title , like ‘ Contract , ’ take down that volume of the collection and open it at the title ( known as the ‘ group ’ ) . |
| 8 | The other , instinctively realizing the danger , swiftly retreats in a reflex movement of social and theological withdrawal , but all that it does from then on is marked by a deepening social and intellectual insecurity . |
| 9 | It introduces non-state actors and so belongs to a new pluralism in International Relations . |
| 10 | She never uses the central heating system , only turns on a single bar of her electric fire for about half an hour and then off again for another half hour or so . |
| 11 | Perhaps bands with a dark side , with occult associations , will always be lumped into the HM category . |
| 12 | Perhaps bands with a dark side , with occult associations , will always be lumped into the HM category . |
| 13 | it only needs for a little bit of attention on a wire or something |
| 14 | Also , she failed to be swayed by arguments that Britain 's future industrial prowess crucially depends on a strong base in computing research . |
| 15 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 16 | So features like a standard format no longer have the function they have in broadcast television . |
| 17 | The Windows version of VirusScan merely acts as a simple shell for the DOS version |
| 18 | If intellectualism only leads to a cultivated despair or a hankering after dictatorship , then it is time to give ordinary intelligence a chance . |
| 19 | ‘ We are n't interested in quoting prices over the phone , because that only leads to a Dutch auction . |
| 20 | A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force . |
| 21 | Thus , the imposition of these preconceptions on the object of study necessarily leads to a distorted view of the history of a language . |
| 22 | The freedom of independent initiative only exists as a meaningful notion if there are limits to define it . |
| 23 | Whereas the original boasted an eerie aura , the remix merely sounds like a half-hearted run through an old New Order B-side . |
| 24 | Whereas the original boasted an eerie aura , the remix merely sounds like a half-hearted run through an old New Order B-side . |
| 25 | The designation marking the canonization is frequently deleted so that Val merely sounds like a dilettantish scamp with an eye for the girls and a desire for a good time . |
| 26 | Like the other Alternanthera species , this only survives for a short period under water . |
| 27 | The words are organized around symmetrical pairs ( grace/wretch ; lost/found ; blind/see ) and the tune , at least in its best known version , not only divides into an open/closed parallelism , through its cadence structure , but within this , the subsidiary phrases form complementary pairs ; moreover , the overall pitch contour follows the arch shape typical of this song type ( see Ex. 1.1 ) . |
| 28 | It is also that , even were it not , the reliance on competition between economic units inevitably generates individual/sectional self-interest , and so reproduces in a socialist economy the individualist attitudes and self-seeking practices characteristic of capitalism . |
| 29 | The melodic line must stand out with the greatest power and clarity in our arrangement , and obviously calls for a great sweep of strings . |
| 30 | Except in relation to discretionary management , the rule as such only applies to a private customer and thus , to some extent , non-private customers are left to make their own judgement as to the frequency of dealings . |