Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always found it rather sad that a man could produce something as evocative as this and also produce a child who could not appreciate it. , |
| 2 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 3 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 4 | So if you use that and just have a look at this problem here . |
| 5 | I remember a recent visit to India where I hardly ate meat at all and never saw a chip . |
| 6 | Many sociologists have addressed the relationship between ideas or beliefs and social structure and process but I shall not attempt to consider theories that more or less imply a sociology of knowledge perspective . |
| 7 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 8 | Everybody has More or less has a paper It 's not like the Scotsman or the News , as regards numbers , but then you 've got all the local news and you got all the local advertisements . |
| 9 | For it does more than simply put a face to the pictures . |
| 10 | However , in instances whereby an originating office makes a request for assistance that would result in more than simply providing a favour' then a fee is appropriate and its level should be determined directly between the two offices concerned . |
| 11 | This suggests that speakers do more than simply animate a persona now and again for narrative purposes : they actually switch " selves " from time to time , depending on " who " they want to be at a particular moment , relative to their interlocutor . |
| 12 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 13 | You can do more than just watch a programme once , straight through . |
| 14 | We did more than just have a go when a golfing blue from Cambridge , whose other forte was history , joined the staff . |
| 15 | The link with Labour has got to be more than just signing a cheque . |
| 16 | But settling a potential employment dispute tends to involve rather more than just signing a letter prepared by the company or initialling a few sheets of paper which explain the agreed terms . |
| 17 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 18 | ‘ Fix one line , foul up two more and then take a tea-break ! ’ |
| 19 | As long as your amp is high enough to support your guitar properly then GuitaRest does exactly the same job as a guitar stand — except that it 's neater , lighter , takes up less space , costs less than most and also incorporates a recess to accommodate your armoury of assorted plectra . |