Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serum concentrations of both are raised in patients with type II diabetes , reflecting most probably a shift in the relation between demand for insulin and the capacity to produce it . |
| 2 | They have n't revealed their presence because our solar system is being treated rather like a nature reserve — that they do n't want to interpose themselves and spoil a very classic example of study of a lesser civilization growing up . |
| 3 | We were most often directed to library skills and study skills lessons in which children were being taught rather unimaginatively a range of things from the Dewey Decimal Classification to the use of the full stop ! |
| 4 | Once he acted the part of Asquith in some amateur dramatics , and danced round the stage with ‘ Lloyd George ’ , singing most comically a refrain which he wrote himself . |
| 5 | Delarivière Manley records somewhat maliciously a ‘ comical Combat ’ between the Egertons , in which Sarah throws a pie at her husband 's face , and dumps butter and drink over his head while he grapples with her topknot . |
| 6 | Between Hendaye-Plage and its parent of Hendaye , there is much water side , because Hendaye is hidden defensively away a mile from the sea , on the wide estuary of the river Bidassoa . |
| 7 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 8 | Assemblies met only once a year but set up permanent executive boards . |
| 9 | Although the insider dealer himself contributes only around a tenth of that volume , he gives a clear enough signal to arbitrageurs in the market , reckons the study . |
| 10 | As a result the society became less specifically a group of the left . |
| 11 | We have been eating together quite a bit , and also travelling to the University together on the bus — the University being about 8 miles from the city centre . |
| 12 | A DOE public information phone line , set up last year , which gives information on sulphur and nitrogen-XXXX related pollution , receives only about a dozen calls a week . |
| 13 | It says making Ingres secure involves only around a 3% addition to the product in terms of code . |
| 14 | In fact the company says that making Ingres secure involves only around a 3% addition to the product in terms of code . |
| 15 | ‘ Are accounts produced only once a year ? ’ |
| 16 | Since the Libyan system allowed no formal campaign with a beginning and a pre-announced end , the agonistic element was concentrated in the ballot which became much more a contest between voters than one between candidates . |
| 17 | This involved most notably a stress on the power of economic forces to overcome existing divisions between States . |
| 18 | Anglers Mail columnist Frank Barlow ( Wotsits Tackle ) drew right opposite a pub but some bites on stick float and maggots kept him rooted to his box and he finished runner-up with 11–7–0 of grayling . |
| 19 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 20 | I dare say that is why you were induced to accept so low a wage . ’ |
| 21 | The commission responsible for undertaking this revision was convoked only once a week by its president , Ottaviani . |
| 22 | Once she has digested the news that she is unable to conceive naturally , she will be offered IVF — with the caveat that the method has only around a 30% chance of success . |
| 23 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 24 | Perhaps out of guilt , Harriet discontinued her writing and stopped seeing Mill , with whom she had dined alone twice a week , in order to nurse her husband . |
| 25 | The state railways pay a user charge to the track authority , which is broadly equivalent to the charges faced by road users and covers only about a third of total infrastructure costs . |
| 26 | The more products , the higher number of prospects will be interested , although a balance has to be struck so as not to provide so wide a range as to make it confusing . |
| 27 | Their Empire holds so short a Reign ; |
| 28 | Each member contributed so much a week to form a common fund . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , on the material before the court , it was not necessary to impose so long a term of imprisonment . |
| 30 | He only got started to work just about a couple of years before the war . |