Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powerful are forced to strain towards an absolute always beyond reach without which they are insecure ; but for the security of an absolute subjection , abjection , it seems that one has only to let go . |
| 2 | The sea water comes out in the bulge towards the moon and it also comes out in the bulge on the other side of the of the earth towards an anti Now the easiest way of explaining this . |
| 3 | I 'd be retained purely as a servant , subject to the whims of an above averagely capricious employer with a short memory . |
| 4 | In the case of an only moderately cruel man , the intensification of the pain beyond a certain point will suddenly switch him to the equalization of viewpoints , and his pleasure will lapse . |
| 5 | The distorted modes of communication which the individual has set up within himself , and between self and the outside world , as a result of fearing to express in public form certain wishes and impulses of an infantile polymorphously perverse character , can be unravelled with the analyst 's help . |
| 6 | Force yourself to think of an effective here-and-now action and go ahead and do it . |
| 7 | You should save at least a third on the cost of an equivalent conventionally built house . |
| 8 | This is felt to be an inadequate preparation for the work of life , because it tends to produce a super-abundant supply of an indifferent clerkly class and to create and foster a distaste for agriculture and the handicrafts , which are more indispensable to the country and are better calculated to promote independence of character . |
| 9 | Burnhill , Garner and McPherson report that , controlling for social class , the odds of an individual both of whose parents left school after age 17 qualifying for HE are around seven times greater than a contemporary both of whose parents left school at 15 . |
| 10 | Can the race of an individual easily be determined ? |
| 11 | Green realized he was better with the pencil than writing but made his excuse ‘ were his information for the satisfaction of an individual only , he would prefer the former as a vehicle for information , but to give to the public a numerous series of explanations all cloathed in bodily forms ; besides time and other minor considerations , it is necessary to consult the copper smith , the printer , and the paper merchant . ’ |
| 12 | That is why we think it better the change in the community should be of an evolutionary rather than of a revolutionary kind . |
| 13 | These findings suggest that the formation of a specific complex between an IE protein and its own gene promoter may be a common mechanism used by alphaherpesvirinae to autoregulate transcription of an essential IE gene . |
| 14 | True proportions are denied in favour of an intuitive rather than a rigorously intellectual style . |
| 15 | Ministers also agreed on the creation of an eighth exclusively German corps based in eastern Germany until the withdrawal of all Soviet forces in 1994 . |
| 16 | he 's erm a bit of an eccentric now is n't he ? |
| 17 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 18 | Even 18 months ago , the material would most probably have been in the form of near-illegible carbon copies of an original laboriously produced on a manual typewriter — devices which until recently had to be registered with the authorities . |
| 19 | As these family dramas were played out around Low Birk Hatt farm and the Hauxwell family battled against the twin effects of an overpriced heavily mortgaged farm , and an agricultural depression which presaged the deep national depression of the thirties the other people in Baldersdale coped with their lives . |
| 20 | The top two semitones , B ♯ and C are , however , rather difficult to produce and should only used at the end of an upward-rushing ff scale . |
| 21 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 22 | I felt like an invited rather than a paying guest , as I shook hands with Mr and Mrs Noone . |
| 23 | Soon the only things to guide you are the silhouettes of trees or rocks , black against an only slightly less black sky . |
| 24 | The choir is encircled by a stone screen with an ambulatory behind . |
| 25 | Hence CI5 's involvement , although it had been an assignment with an only partially successful outcome . |
| 26 | If a tough , pushy Orc grows fast he will soon come into conflict with an established equally big Orc . |
| 27 | Several American oaks , maples , dogwoods , walnuts , the tulip tree , the tupelo , the amelanchier , and other trees now settled in Europe were also in this catalogue , with an occasional less welcome import , like poison ivy . |
| 28 | In Bristol and Coventry three years prior to this , a decision had been taken to replace a batch personnel system with an on-line internally developed IMS package , covering recruitment , personnel administration/records , training and management information . |
| 29 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 30 | If we use a diagram to summarise the relationship it needs to be shown as a polarity , a pull in opposite directions with an imaginary half-way mark balancing the two . |