Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , drawing a line so roughly has its limitations : the eye can deceive and the heart may secretly desire a particular outcome .
2 On 24 November the lawyers replied ‘ respectfully to state our opinion that Your Majesty may properly grant a Royal Charter ’ , but it was not until 14 February 1844 that Thomas Turner was able to report to the standing committee of veterinary surgeons that their determined efforts had been rewarded and that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons had been incorporated .
3 To operate in the PC environment you may additionally need a windowing environment like GEM or Microsoft Windows , an EGA or Hercules card and matching screen , a mouse and , in some instances , an AT rather than a PC .
4 Okay erm let's perhaps make a few comments then about the Vienna settlement itself .
5 The problem is that despite all the well-intentioned efforts of those who have devised the various syllabuses , whether for the old CSE/ ‘ O ’ levels or the new GCSE , what can be accurately assessed may only represent a small part of what arts education is all about .
6 Differences of opinion exist among scholars ; sometimes the appearance gives very little to go on — details may have been rubbed off or we may only have a small fragment of a large object to examine ; two or more origins may be possible contenders and it may be impossible to decide which on stylistic grounds alone .
7 When I asked Alison what qualities you need to be a marketing controller she said , ‘ you need to be able to establish immediate empathy with the people you are talking to as you may only have a short time to get the feedback you need .
8 So sometimes a horse may only have a bad habit in relation to a certain rider , and in that case it will be the rider who will need the extra training .
9 The transsexual , once stabilized in the role long seen as the only natural one , may naturally want a normal family life .
10 Since unc and all the ri are non-negative we must eventually reach a first integer l for which
11 This should arguably supply a greater surface for bacteria than gravel — internal and external as the media is porous — and wo n't cost a great deal more or less than gravel .
12 He sees no reason why those sharing a similar class situation should necessarily develop a common identity , recognize shared interests and take collective action to further those interests .
13 Instead of postulating a single link between CS and US we should perhaps imagine a whole collection of them ( the exact number depending on which attributes of the stimuli are noticed and encoded by the animal ) , all of which play some part in generating the CR .
14 At the same time it should be made clear that apart from false assumptions about matriculation , higher education should only have a small contribution to make to the range , standard and appositeness of 16+ and 18+ examination syllabuses and schemes of marking .
15 I think it should only take a few minutes to have you begging me to make love to you … ’
16 Should only take a few days .
17 I 'm just waiting for my international clearance now , which should only take a few days , and then I 'll be aiming to challenge for a first team place . ’
18 As Levinas puts it , ‘ the idea of truth as a grasp on things must necessarily have a non-metaphorical sense somewhere ’ .
19 Lubrication may be provided by melting between mineral boundaries , but molten material must only form a small proportion of the asthenosphere since it is capable of transmitting S-waves .
20 Now you should all have a spare scrap of paper that 's blank on one side , out of my recycled paper box , okay .
21 They are drastic pieces of legislation which should rightly occupy a large part of the time of the House .
22 The key-words you adopt for your pattern-note must easily recall a specific meaning for you .
23 There was also the general assumption that the fact of a state populated by catholics must perforce imply a heightened degree of institutionalized catholic value in law .
24 After all , a fund which does not pay tax should normally out-perform a similar fund that does .
25 The recommendation most widely noticed was that full-time students should normally study a wider range of subjects — five A levels plus one AS level , rather than three A levels as at present .
26 The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of , say , one to three years , selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period .
27 Thus it seemed clear that the lexical representation used for matching should already include a great deal of information about the word 's possible phonetic realisations .
28 I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever .
29 While some hypocrites may be known from their outer appearance — Ananias and Tribulation in The Alchemist , say — the dramatist must normally establish a two-level process of communication between the hypocritical character and the audience .
30 A history of mass media from 1945 must thus impose a common character upon a set of — what ?
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