Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like all that ego-building which eventually turns into a monster . |
| 2 | The expectation at an early age that career aspirations can not be met locally contributes to a lack of commitment to the home area and to the acceptance of out-migration as the inevitable solution . |
| 3 | Instead of finding sudden problems you might find that progress slowly grinds to a halt . |
| 4 | ‘ Carry On goes in a seven-year cycle . |
| 5 | The telson is present in the embryos of certain insects ( Fig. 41 ) , but it rarely persists as a discrete region ; it is evident , however , in the Protura , while traces are found in other insects . |
| 6 | In truth it does not denote any single right , but rather refers to a disparate group of immunities , which differ in nature , origin , incidence and importance , and also as to the extent to which they have already been encroached upon by statute . |
| 7 | In cold winter weather it develops a terminal misfire starting with a slight loss of power which slowly turns into a worsening , choking misfire eventually stopping the vehicle . |
| 8 | In the summertime , it is alive with hot fumes and rampant dogs and fashionable bathers crawling up Highgate Road on their way to the Heath , where they claim respective ponds and languor till the sky slowly turns to a soothing summer gold . |
| 9 | Built in 1814 , it is 72 feet high , and is often said to be the tallest windmill in the country , though that honour properly belongs to a tower mill at Sutton ( q.v. ) in Norfolk . |
| 10 | It suggests that of the subjects that usually comprise the humanities , philosophy need not necessarily be identified with the humanities at all , literature and the other arts are defined by their concern with art-objects and history arguably belongs to a broader conception of ‘ human sciences ’ . |
| 11 | Now is it not they 'll ask you , reasonable to recycle some of those savings and surely regain the into the provision of those ten fire officers that the service so badly needs for a number of years now the Fire Inspector 's report has identified the confidence levels as we in our service . |
| 12 | Ask any élite marathoner what he/she most wants after a race and the answer is very likely to be a massage . |
| 13 | They were little loves to a dog , but whether they were , as billed , the cream of British dogdom , well , all owners would like to think their dogs were . |
| 14 | I can only stress that when we return to our dingy little squats after a hard day baiting rock gods and ignoring letters from readers , there 's nothing we like better than a long listen to Pink Floyd 's ‘ Animals ’ or Mr Oldfield 's ‘ Ommadawn ’ while soaking our horny feet in a scalding bowl of mushroom chow mein . |
| 15 | Such ambivalence often figures within transgressive reinscription , and is one reason why it rarely approximates to a straightforwardly ‘ correct ’ political attitude . |
| 16 | The faster moving of the two bands presumably corresponds to a proteolysis product of Dcm ; in later experiments with a fresh batch of enzyme it was no longer observed ( compare Figure 8 ) . |
| 17 | A bilateral treaty ( or one with a limited number of parties ) creating mutual rights and duties in personam most approximates to a contract ; it is here that the identity of treaty partners is most significant . |
| 18 | Both partner horses whose careers took down turns after a promising start and now need to prove themselves again . |
| 19 | It usually starts shortly after the animals have been weaned and in most instances it only persists for a few months . |
| 20 | The Z2 Carbonate is also widely known as the Hauptdolomit ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Rhys 1975 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Wagner et a/. 1978 ) but strictly speaking this name only refers to a particular part of the formation . |
| 21 | After an atmospheric Christmassy sequence slower than the rest , Arnold suddenly launches into a bold pastiche of West Indian pop music , steel band references and all . |
| 22 | If your statute obviously belongs to a particular title , like ‘ Contract , ’ take down that volume of the collection and open it at the title ( known as the ‘ group ’ ) . |
| 23 | This difference is important when the motor is producing maximum ( pull-out ) torque , because any small increase in load causes the open-loop system to stall , whereas the closed.loop system merely slows to a lower speed ; the open.loop system is unstable , but the closed.loop system is stable . |
| 24 | Er where you 've got a note that obviously goes over a beat as in that one there |
| 25 | ‘ Stable and fruitful societies have always been elaborately graded ’ , he wrote , and the mistake of apartheid was to make a single decisive distinction on one ground — skin-colour — and then to elevate into a rigid legal system what rightly belongs to a world of personal inclination . |
| 26 | He has shown that a black hole of mass M radiates like a black body at a temperature which only differs by a factor of 4π from the temperature deduced above . |
| 27 | In particular if the external situation is conceived of as changing through time , the phrase " as initially present to the mind " by no means necessarily refers to an earlier state of a real or imaginary referent . |
| 28 | The other , instinctively realizing the danger , swiftly retreats in a reflex movement of social and theological withdrawal , but all that it does from then on is marked by a deepening social and intellectual insecurity . |
| 29 | It introduces non-state actors and so belongs to a new pluralism in International Relations . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , fifty 's gone already in backhanders to a couple of the girls at Central Records . |