Example sentences of "a [adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A properly drafted heads of agreement should , however , take care of such conceptual problems . |
| 2 | The PEP invests exclusively in the Capital House Income & Growth Trust , an authorised unit trust managed by Capital House Unit Trust Managers Limited [ Member of IMRO , Lautro and AUTIF ] , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital House Investment Management Limited ] |
| 3 | Wedging itself in between Texas Instruments Inc 's announcement of the Tsunami Sparc chip on October 9 ( UX No 406 ) , and Sun Microsystems Inc 's expected introduction of the first Tsunami box on November 10 , MIPS Technologies Inc , now a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics Inc , is due to upgrade its 64-bit R4000 chip to the R4400 this week with a major performance boost . |
| 4 | First , it seems as though we can identify a locally based form of politics , arising from local social relations and social processes . |
| 5 | In classical tragedy as we know it , [ the tragedy of Aeschylus ( 525–456 ) and Sophocles ( 496–406 ) ] , the drama , as represented in the dialogue , gives a uniformly Apolline impression of form , precision , lucidity and beauty , much like Homeric epic . |
| 6 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 7 | And she trembled , yielding , softening , flowering against him as a slowly swirling vortex of yearning began to build to an urgency . |
| 8 | At the second and subsequent prunings , a widely advocated rule of thumb guide is to reduce the stem length by about a half . |
| 9 | The processes of school internal evaluation are recommended by the Hargraves Report , ‘ Planning for School Development : Advice to Governors , Headteachers and Teachers 1989 ’ , as the way to organise School Development Planning , a widely endorsed approach to management for the effective school of the 1990's . |
| 10 | With encouragement from the paper 's enlightened sports editor Clifford Makins — ‘ he was a widely read man with respect for The Word , who believed that sports writers who are insular are doubly boring ’ — and a chance opportunity to write a boxing piece , McIlvanney was on his way , armed with Makin 's almost religious guidelines . |
| 11 | Among the many things we hear in that oracular phrase is , against the odds , a bitterly won conception of language as rescue . |
| 12 | We agreed that the accusation was obviously nonsense , but I warned him that rape , like child abuse , was a powerfully charged topic at present in England . |
| 13 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 14 | Singers ’ fees have had to be raised a little to keep pace with inflation and union rates . |
| 15 | It suggests to me a little remarked aspect of dress and fashion : the ability of well chosen , beautiful garments to stand in for the body . |
| 16 | Before Nicholas 's death few of Russia 's disaffected minority went beyond a loosely conceived commitment to liberty and justice and fewer still took their protest to the point of action . |
| 17 | The referee stopped the contest when Molina was hitting a badly battered Lopez at will , prompting supporters to pelt the ring with beer cups . |
| 18 | Eleven year old Lisa Morley suffered a badly damaged eye in incident near Grange School in Banbury in May , after which police interviews a boy , who was also aged eleven . |
| 19 | At time T the intraepithelial lymphocyte count was normal in all patients ( normal values 8 ( 3 ) ) but it showed a clear cut increase at time T 1 in both group A and group B patients . |
| 20 | Warnie said that there was room only for a clear cut division of opinion — if one is a Catholic , the aumbry contains Our Lord and of course even prostration is hardly reverence enough : but if one is Church of England , it contains but a wafer and a little wine , and why in front of that should one show any greater reverence than in any other part of the church ? … |
| 21 | From my perspective , it was a clear cut case of abuse . |
| 22 | Early human consciousness would have been a world of certainties based upon simple social conventions and the fact of being born irrevocably into a clear cut role in life . |
| 23 | The prospective study , however , indicated a clear cut association between pseudomelanosis coli and colorectal tumours in man . |
| 24 | In Britain in the late 1980s the idea of the Anthropic Principle , a hitherto obscure doctrine in physics , became the subject of conversation at cocktail parties , was probed exhaustively in a 700-page book and was summarized in popular science magazines and television documentaries . |
| 25 | The accession of Coenred ( 716–18 ) ( HE V , 22 ) , son of Cuthwine , son of Leodwald , a representative of a hitherto obscure line of Bernician aristocrats who appears in the Anglian genealogies as a descendant of Ida , set a new pattern . |
| 26 | Community is part of the job but it needs good management ( paying teachers , costing the use of premises , the division of time other than that which is needed to provide the national curriculum ) as well as a personally felt sense of value . |
| 27 | The way in which changes in money supply influence the economy is a fiercely debated subject in macroeconomics . |
| 28 | A much loved wife at home to keep , |
| 29 | Burying a much loved pet at home can provide great emotional support at a distressing time , but it can also present practical problems |
| 30 | Mainly because of Mr Pramual 's opposition a much needed increase in interest rates was delayed until last week . |