Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the new system to be introduced properly involves a change of constitution and a further vote . |
| 2 | erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same . |
| 3 | It amounts to an agreement by Member States not to employ their veto to prevent a majority decision , and effectively represents a reversal of the Luxembourg Compromise . |
| 4 | The Bavarian position appears untenable , as the matter is surely a civil one and Article 13 expressly prohibits a refusal based on the ground that the internal law of the state of destination would not permit the action on which the application was based . |
| 5 | Forget the old adage about non-stop bicycling ; the growing Community badly needs a decade of constitutional calm . |
| 6 | — Andrew Crisp from Winchester , during economic policy debate ‘ Any party that has Dennis Skinner as its chairman and Neil Kinnock as leader , badly needs a hero . ’ |
| 7 | Aid policy badly needs a rethink |
| 8 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 9 | Management control thereby has a tendency to become more centralized . |
| 10 | For that investment the member gets a stake in the club and in the freehold , and thereby has a say in how it is run . |
| 11 | He deftly drops a charge next to it and returns the vehicle . |
| 12 | Rarely has a film given me such a warm glow . |
| 13 | Rarely has a government been so hard-put to explain why a bill will benefit Britain . |
| 14 | Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers . |
| 15 | Weeell , to our knowledge , no-one else quite sums up the paper over the past ten or so years — rarely has a pop personage and his relationship with a music paper produced so many sparks , so much debate , so much excellent copy , and ( ahem ) so many yards of Angst . |
| 16 | And herein lies a problem . |
| 17 | Herein lies a problem . |
| 18 | Herein lies a paradox for the classical view . |
| 19 | Herein lies a paradox : for in examining " micro " variables ( for example , two variant pronunciations of the vowel sound of house ) , variationists draw conclusions about the social stratification of a whole speech community ; whereas by focusing on the " macro " parameters of language choice and sequentiality in turn-taking , researchers like Auer draw conclusions about the motivation for an individual linguistic event — a particular code switch in a particular conversation . |
| 20 | somewhere wants a card from you . |
| 21 | Unless the solicitor is prepared to act without charge , at the point at which the client most needs a lawyer , the lawyer apparently abandons the case . |
| 22 | They follow two lines : either my child commands me to do something , and if I do n't , she insists , and eventually has a tantrum ; |
| 23 | The passengers were saddened by the thought that they were unlikely to see their native land again but probably neither before nor since has a group of people set out with more determination to establish a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education . |
| 24 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 25 | No , because right has a tummy bug this week and she did n't phone or nothing like to say I do n't wan na phone Margaret she do n't wan na know so I do n't know why you 're bugging her for ! |
| 26 | Once detected , the bird swiftly chisels a hole and then unreels its enormously long tongue . |
| 27 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 28 | The user merely supplies a title for the product and LIFESPAN allocates a product identifier to it . |
| 29 | In goes a Commons motion , tabled by the Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes . |
| 30 | Once bitten twice shy , and a man only tackles a hell-cat once in his life . ’ |