Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acid is still potent , and if 1 pint or more hits a living target it inflicts D3 S 6 hits . |
| 2 | Tolerates or even prefers a small amount of salt in the water . |
| 3 | The most fundamental issue at stake is whether it represents merely a continuation of the earlier process of suburbanization and metropolitan deconcentration , albeit on a much larger geographical scale , or instead constitutes a fundamental switch away from the urban concentration process associated with industrialization towards a new ‘ post-industrial ’ settlement pattern based on medium-sized and small centres ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Generally any firm receiving government assistance experiences a reduction in its costs which is unavailable to its competitors , and thereby achieves a competitive advantage . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is evident to ( at least some ) others and thereby creates a reciprocal intolerance . |
| 6 | In chronic catarrh with a thick discharge suppressed , possibly by a cold , and on comes a severe headache , in the forehead , face , ears . |
| 7 | Although he does not adopt the frontal assault of Bacon on the ‘ perfect darkness ’ of a despairing scepticism , and eventually advocates a patient acceptance of our limitations , these limitations are , for him , not complete . |
| 8 | The limpet , like Neopilina , produces shell at an equal rate right round the circumference of the mantle and so builds a simple pyramid . |
| 9 | It also encourages the community to anticipate such changes and so achieves a good part of the benefit of change without the waste of litigation , or the expensive , uncertain , and awkward process of legislation . |
| 10 | It is big — but it also happens to be Japanese , and so presents a juicy target . |
| 11 | But the sCD2 association shows several key structural differences from the standard V-domain dimerization and so provides a possible paradigm for adhesion interactions . |
| 12 | It can be assessed only by its appropriateness , but this depends entirely on what the pupil is writing about and for what purpose ( and so has a cross-curricular dimension ) . |
| 13 | Whether or not he does it , every person has a duty to God not to ‘ harm another in his life , … liberty , … or goods ’ , and so has a parallel right to defend himself against such attack . |
| 14 | An attractor that has a positive maximal Lyapunov exponent , and so has a high sensitivity to initial conditions , often has a very complicated structure , in that it may have a noninteger , fractal dimension , and have some of the properties of a Cantor set . |
| 15 | For example , sanguine Conté Carres crayons are made with a mixture of native earths plus softeners such as China clay , while the natural lump sanguine you can buy does not have these softening additives and so has a different texture . |
| 16 | Kendal , to the east of Windermere , is just outside the Lake District National Park and so makes a good base to visit the rest of the region . |
| 17 | Before the album 's release will come a single , ‘ Your Loss My Gain ’ , that 's neither particularly immediate or commercial and so makes a surprising choice to re-establish him in the public domain . |
| 18 | These take the explanation beyond the fact that Bonapartism destroys all other political institutions — legislatures , parties , and so on — and only leaves a bureaucratic executive standing , the point beyond which contemporary theories of ‘ military-bureaucratic oligarchies ’ largely fail to take us . |
| 19 | From then on , she trips and twirls like a prima donna at an infant ballet class , gurgles and squeaks to the point of practically begging to be mercy killed , and generally flaunts a dodgy child sexuality that is neither funny nor subversive , but is stupid and dangerous . |
| 20 | A comparison of this conflict with the long and bloody histories of the Middle East and elsewhere provides a startling illustration of the fact that wars are fought , and are believed to have been justifiably fought , without the need of religious pretext or of ‘ divine ’ acquiescence . |
| 21 | If , on reaching the lowest level , the points have not been re-aligned positively , with a set tolerance , the procedure returns to the highest level and successively provides a rotational correction down through the system again . |
| 22 | The British Council is well known here and already has a substantial programme . |
| 23 | ‘ Nuclear energy is one of the cleanest methods of generating electricity , ’ it states , ‘ and already makes a substantial contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the UK . |
| 24 | Through watching his father in these activities , the boy gradually learns how to handle his digging-stick , and thus becomes a practical agriculturist . |
| 25 | Thailand is the only country in south Asia to have resisted colonisation and thus has a cohesive language and religion , plus a unique culinary palette . |
| 26 | The Commons , by its elected status , associates the people with the government , and thus makes a major contribution to legitimacy , a concept essential for government by consent . |
| 27 | This way of regarding the infinitive 's relation to person can be applied moreover to the uses already examined in Chapters Two and Three , where this form is related to another verb in the sentence and thus provides a coherent explanation covering all the uses of both versions of the infinitive by means of a single principle of analysis . |
| 28 | But I love the way Ry Cooder sounds , y'know ; he uses bottles and just has a great sound . |
| 29 | Immediately beyond the church and school the road has a less steep section , and soon passes a small cheese dairy where , depending on circumstances of the season , there may be an opportunity to see something of the work that is typical of this type of country . |
| 30 | It is designed for use only in Force 3+ and usually has a small daggerboard . |