Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Meacher and Frank Field have stressed that only a limited circle of people were actively involved in formulating the industrial policy proposals , and that beyond this circle , understanding of the proposals was rather minimal . |
| 2 | If the function of the leave requirement is to weed out unarguable or vexatious cases it might be expected that only a small proportion of cases would fail at this stage . |
| 3 | Experts have forecast that even a partial ban will be a blow to Taiwan 's fishing companies , which are already facing recession and rely on driftnetting as the most profitable method . |
| 4 | Now , imply that there is no stretch , as would be expected because only a pure rotation of axes has been involved . |
| 5 | During the last years of the war it was noticed that rather a high proportion of soldiers were failing to be cured by the standard doses of M & B 693 , as the sulphonamide was called , and this was the first clue to the potential in the gonococcus for developing resistance to antibiotics . |
| 6 | It was felt that maybe a stronger emphasis should be put on the need for ecumenical and inter-faith dialogue . |
| 7 | North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary has revealed that nearly a thousand cancer patients have been wrongly treated there in the past nine years . |
| 8 | Although studies have revealed that only a small subgroup of such diabetics have reduced plasma renin , in those with nephropathy both plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone tend to be decreased ( Christlieb , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | It may have been that on his original appearance this condition would not have been satisfied , as it could not have been said that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him , if the alternative of a probation order requiring residence at a hostel specialising in sexual offenders was available . |
| 10 | These boxes stood above ground and were , therefore , visible and obvious targets , but they were so solidly made that only a direct hit by a heavy shell could destroy them . |
| 11 | The procedure followed ensured that only a certain response would disambiguate the message . |
| 12 | They would be featured and then a live player with a piano or what have you erm would produce the music which went with the action on , on the screen . |
| 13 | Everybody remembers where they were when JFK was shot and now a new round of ‘ Who Really Killed the President ’ books are coming out soon to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the assassination . |
| 14 | Density slicing is normally applied when only a single-band image of an area is available . |
| 15 | Even in the Coordinating Team , the development of such skills has tended to be accepted as self-evidently a good thing rather than debated or interpreted in a systematic way . |
| 16 | To the readers of 1850 it represented on the one hand a great Romantic apologia , though the stress on the French Revolution would not have pleased ; on the other hand it could be seen as specifically a mid-Victorian poem , contemporary with the work of Tennyson , George Eliot and Matthew Arnold . |
| 17 | There had been some 400,000 arrivals since the 1988 elections ( including 240,000 from the former Soviet Union ) , and 240,000 of them were eligible to vote , which was seen as possibly a decisive factor in what was expected to be a close electoral contest . |
| 18 | Admittedly war with the USSR was seen as only a distant possibility . |
| 19 | They say some workers were allowed back before a final all-clear had been given and so a second evacuation was necessary . |
| 20 | However , it allows only about one third of patients to be diagnosed and therefore a negative result has little value . |
| 21 | Repeat elections were needed where neither a sole candidate nor either of two candidates had secured 50 per cent of the vote in the first or second round . |
| 22 | One might have thought that only a particular unit of the type could be ‘ tried on ’ , but that seems not to be the case . |
| 23 | It can be shown that again a large set of collusive allocations can be supported by threats of punishment of this kind provided firms do not discount the future ‘ too heavily ’ . |
| 24 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 25 | The brutish , uncaring nature of the staff was conveyed as almost an inevitable necessity brought about by the institutionalisation of working in such a place ; just as the public will accept that prison warders will overstep the line from time to time because of the people they are dealing with . |
| 26 | It should not be discounted as merely a cynical manipulation on his part in order to restore flagging revolutionary morale by invoking the imperialist threat , even though it has in practice served that purpose . |
| 27 | The Jetwave Series 2 combination oven has a 700-watt microwave , a 2,400-watt infra-red grill , and can be used as either a forced air or natural convection oven . |
| 28 | No prognosis would be possible in a serious case for at least two or three months from the accident and the treating surgeon 's report can thus be used as quite a good foundation for the independent reports which will follow later . |
| 29 | Unlike children , very old people do not have common ‘ norms of development ’ which can be used as quite a precise yardstick in the appraisals we all make of each other . |
| 30 | In mid-afternoon they left Dunbar Castle , well mounted and quite a sizeable company — for Moray and the Steward had managed to extract a group of their horsed men from the débâcle and ridden directly here . |