Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , one little slip in an otherwise faultless performance … |
| 2 | Has more yellow on bill than smaller Bewick 's Swan , reaching below nostril at an acute angle . |
| 3 | There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth . |
| 4 | There was a long wait for an answer . |
| 5 | In so doing , they extend the frontiers of experience and so act as an ‘ … antidote to complacency ’ . |
| 6 | From Gordon Thomas 's evidence to the Royal Commission it is obvious that he had carried out much research into an improved canal , including technical planning , estimates of costs and market studies into the expectations of more traffic . |
| 7 | Fired off in rapid succession questions merely sound like an inquisition with the result that you will be creating anxiety , not ideas . |
| 8 | Looking around her , she would see that while her brothers might follow their father 's trade or profession , whatever that was , or perhaps look for an apprenticeship in a traditional craft , or take advantage of the new opportunities in , say , transport — in short choose , within limits , a career that appealed to them — she was not likely to be able to indulge a personal preference . |
| 9 | It is conceivable that the modest groundmass variations ( A–D ) derived by and , on the scale of a thin section , reflect uncertainties inherent in their technique , in which case a ‘ trend ’ would represent only scatter about an average composition . |
| 10 | Somehow it does n't seem right to count your calories during the week and then suddenly explode into an orgy of indiscriminate gorging when guests come and you are supposed to be the one in control . |
| 11 | A mere failure to respond , within the 14-day time limit or at all , does not necessarily amount to an unreasonable refusal . |
| 12 | This offence carries the right to jury trial , and the judge declined to usurp the jury 's role by declaring that future conduct by the Society would necessarily amount to an offence . |
| 13 | They could compare the weight of the irons and investigate what they were made of , or look at the energy source they needed and the implications of this — the electric iron is not much use without an electricity supply ! |
| 14 | The picture that emerged was unflattering ; but it was n't much use to an aspiring blackmailer . |
| 15 | The molecular cloning data presented in this paper not only confirm the existence of clusters of related ZNF genes on chromosome 10 , but also demonstrate duplication of an entire cluster : part of cluster A ( ZNF11A , ZNF33A , ZNF37A ) in 10p11.2 , and cluster B ( ZNF11B , ZNF33B , ZNF37B ) in 10q11.2 , obviously derive from an ancestral cluster . |
| 16 | The bars here are unique in that unlike the rest of ‘ puritan ’ Germany , they only close for an hour a day to let the cleaners in ( many bars even pour drink through a loophole by cleaning half the bar at a time — prost ! ) |
| 17 | But the ‘ truth ’ is not the point at issue ; what matters is that as human beings we necessarily engage in an interpretative process when we encounter others , as they do with us . |
| 18 | Well I personally think with an appeal fund like that , I mean the amount of money that 's gone into it is ridiculous considering the amount of compensation that everybody 's going to get or hopes to get after it . |
| 19 | The two latter poems describe states of physical illness , but I think it is not unfair to quote them along with the former because all three only express in an overt form what is often expressed throughout her work : the connection between purity and superiority , the connection between purity and death . |
| 20 | Once we have discussed some of the different ways of thinking about law which are raised by the contributions in this section , we will try to place these within a wider framework and so work towards an assessment of the potential role of law and lawyers within the peace movement . |
| 21 | By bringing up a puppy in the context of a set routine , the anxiety factor present in dogs ( and humans alike ) will not be brought into play and so lead to an aggressive outburst . |
| 22 | They had a couple of people round , but no no nibbles , or I think , yes , I think somebody a silly offer because of course all the property pages and places like that , Daily Telegraph are urging everybody , go on put in an offer for a house , put in a silly offer ! |
| 23 | His legal advisers are anxious to establish a functioning police and judiciary system so that Somalis can begin to administer themselves — and thus bring to an end the violent anarchy that has caused the death from famine of up to 400,000 people . |
| 24 | I had better things to do than just sit in an office talking . |
| 25 | The African bush was not place for an antelope which had acquired a taste for imported peanuts and strawberry yoghurt . |
| 26 | It can become epidemic ; and thus grow into an ideology . |
| 27 | ‘ I use it for a couple of songs every night , but because I do n't use effects — I just plug into an amp — I always use different guitars to get different tones . |
| 28 | The localised states thus act as an electron reservoir , keeping the effective density of mobile electrons constant over ranges of V that have widths proportional to the number of states in the mobility gap . |
| 29 | It is a good idea to turn the main stopcock off and on once or twice each year to keep its mechanism free and not wait for an emergency to discover that it has jammed open . |
| 30 | You just die in an avalanche . |