Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a hospital patient is unable to perform the activities of daily life for him- or herself , staff are on hand to help ; such staff are called ‘ nurses ’ , though in reality ward staff do little that requires a skilled qualified nursing background . |
| 2 | Apparently that drives a couple of bones into the brain . |
| 3 | Perhaps that seems a little severe , but in practice bishops were subjected henceforth to an ever-closer Roman control and appointment system , while being offered no theology to ground any distinct authority . |
| 4 | Obviously that constitutes a threat for the future . |
| 5 | If dogs survive in the wild , they often have effects on the flora and fauna ; so that has a conservation effect and perhaps other effects on species in the environment . |
| 6 | Ultimately the most memorable lines in this volume must be those penned by Bonnard to Matisse in January 1940 : ‘ When I think of you , I think of a mind cleansed of every old aesthetic convention , and it is that alone that permits a direct view of nature , the greatest joy that can befall a painter . |
| 7 | Put together this makes a truly impressive vocabulary . |
| 8 | Suddenly this means a lot to them . |
| 9 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |
| 10 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
| 11 | Perhaps this reflected a lack of clarity about the purpose of the assessment and the conflicting expectations participants held of its outcome . |
| 12 | Perhaps this has a certain symbolic significance : the farm worker has become more isolated from his fellow workers , but more attuned to the world beyond the farm gate . |
| 13 | ( Perhaps this shows a deficiency in the section Preparing for Bed and Coping with the Night ! |
| 14 | Obviously this caused a great deal of distress for all concerned , not least the hospital team . |
| 15 | We can for example say that in West Germany erm a worker who 's paid contributions for forty-five years gets an old-age pension that amounts to about seventy-five percent of what he was taking home in take-home pay before he retired , and obviously this looks a much better deal than the British old age pensioner gets . |
| 16 | So this makes a terrific partner for Chinese food . |
| 17 | Leicester drew level after 19 minutes through Oldfield , who landed a 25-yard volley after the home team only half cleared a corner from Wright . |
| 18 | These papers were not so much creating a new market as servicing an established public interest . |
| 19 | In suggesting that the idea of higher education is hinged on self-criticism , I am not so much developing a personal concept of higher education , therefore , as drawing to the surface our common ( though largely hidden ) understanding of higher education . |
| 20 | My problem in Dalmellington was not so much getting a drink , but in actually devising a means of drinking it . |
| 21 | In her case , perhaps , it was not so much leaving a group that hurt as leaving a stage . |
| 22 | Make you feel glad you 've spent so much to put a daughter through college . ’ |
| 23 | They can be exhausting and exasperating , and parents often feel they are not so much raising a lamb as training a tiger . |
| 24 | ‘ The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone . ’ |
| 25 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 26 | Together these produce a powerful effect , and , after reviewing them and the way they work , it becomes very much less surprising that the semantic essence of syntactic constructions has proved so elusive in the past . |
| 27 | One concern is that as the numbers of very aged people increase in the population , so those offered a place in a home are increasingly dependent . |
| 28 | Hedges and ditches , especially those separating a ridge crest from a valley side or channelling water safely along a valley floor , are often in critical positions to stop runoff . |
| 29 | So both have a reason of justice for preferring some other solution to the checkerboard one . |
| 30 | If the money can be saved from the reform of the common agricultural policy , would not that mean a reduction in income for farmers in my constituency , unemployment and a reduction in the rural economy ? |