Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The infantry detailed to guard them let off only a couple of volleys before also taking to their heels . |
| 2 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 3 | They eat out once a week , you know . |
| 4 | So a Pacific as defined by such minds might fall within the appropriate longitudes and latitudes , but it would be riddled with holes , a discontinuous mess , a collection of unconnected pieces of sea and land established principally to prove an argument about an entity of which they make up only a fraction . |
| 5 | If they make too long a line in one direction , it will be corrected by a shorter line somewhere else , and the result will be some modification of the normal vision , which is a natural error in the vision of the artist , and which constitutes his style . ’ |
| 6 | They set down clearly a record of decisions made . |
| 7 | They operate on around a quarter of the staff of a normal monthly publication . |
| 8 | Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly . |
| 9 | This is clearly a better place to sell razor blades than Azerbaijan , where the men say they shave only once a week , or , if they want to look their best , every other day . |
| 10 | Those wanting to stay throughout the season do so , but they constitute only about a quarter of initial recruitments and come disproportionately from the category of " persons who work in the holiday Industry " and usually occupy the more skilled jobs . |
| 11 | They have too low a melting point and are too unstable , but they can be ‘ stiffened ’ by adding a moderate amount of lime to produce a modest increase in melting temperature . |
| 12 | But there is a need to beware of the assumption that they have as direct an impact upon the political system as they do in the United States . |
| 13 | They have as wide a range of life habits as any group , from scavengers , grazers , filter feeders , vegetarians , omnivores , to fierce predators with reputations to rival that of the sharks . |
| 14 | They have as wide a range of political opinions as any other professionally-defined group , with , one would like to think , some extra tinge of willingness to examine new ideas . |
| 15 | But these arguments rest on a belief in a general vocational potential for something like ‘ good mothering ’ , which they see as fundamentally a property of individuals . |
| 16 | They represent much more a decline in the use of all classical legal categories . |
| 17 | Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ . |