Example sentences of "[adv] an [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it may also be unable to reap the benefits by charging the community for the advantages gained by improved amenities installed close to its factory ( eg an approach road ) , which benefit local people . |
| 2 | Use transactional language effectively in a straightforward situation , eg an eyewitness account of an event or incident ; reclaiming an article which has been lost . |
| 3 | This is not an unreasonable request , unless of course there have been ‘ true ’ representations — eg an information memorandum about the Business — which may well have induced the Purchaser to start negotiations . |
| 4 | Better an unshone shoe than a procession of the crippled , hobbling to their places in unfamiliar brown brogues in a very public breakfast room . |
| 5 | Lock-picking 's almost entirely an intelligence trade by now . |
| 6 | As the two lead platoons secured their objectives , it looked as though the position was taken , but suddenly an enemy depth position sprang into life . |
| 7 | But as she reached the door , one hand on the door-handle , suddenly an iron band clamped round her arm . |
| 8 | However , being apparently an integrationist solution , it might bring the danger that specialist training in dementia was neglected for these carers . |
| 9 | Nineteen twenty-nine was necessarily an election year . |
| 10 | It 's very difficult , though , to say what the right kind of photograph is , for obviously actors are very different , but remember that a good photograph is not necessarily an art photograph . |
| 11 | Every year a student goes to London from Hamburg with a guest scholarship , and , in keeping with the nature of the Warburg Library , it is not necessarily an art historian . |
| 12 | ‘ The beastly old woman has told me , quite bluntly , that she considers me very much an ex -wife . |
| 13 | It was very much an artisan street this , but with a smattering of richer folk , too , so the shearmen , scribblers , shoemakers , carpenters and shop-keepers were neighbours to an attorney and two well-heeled clothiers — Thomas Clement , employing 11 scribblers and 12 shearmen , and Henry Sheppard , who even described himself as a ‘ Gentleman ’ . |
| 14 | I find myself left wondering , if £100 million of new money is standing idly by , how much an action programme is going to cost the Labour party and when we shall see it properly costed . |
| 15 | Moreover , despite its failings , British television is still very much an information medium rather than a propaganda medium . |
| 16 | It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med . |
| 17 | Moreover , her Ladyship did not read those cases as laying down an income bracket suitable for the needs of every former wife of a millionaire . |
| 18 | Subjects range from toy trains , to the construction of a chair , to the abstract beauty of water washing down an asphalt schoolyard . |
| 19 | Tucked away in the imagination , my planting ideas are all absolutely brilliant and flow from brain to magazine page as smoothly as dew running down an iris leaf . |
| 20 | Put down an expenditure figure for each repair ( again to the nearest £100 ) . |
| 21 | He turned to the bookshelves and pulled down an art book . |
| 22 | When it landed , the Americans had no steps tall enough to reach it , a gratifying start except for the fact that the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and his party had to climb down an emergency ladder hand over hand . |
| 23 | Traffic lights throughout Seaham were thrown into chaos yesterday after a heavy goods vehicle hit a post on the Times Inn bank , bringing down an electricity cable . |
| 24 | ANDY Platt has turned down an Aussie gold bonanza to stay with Wigan in their quest for more titles . |
| 25 | Crespi showed some surprising effects when you alter the amount of reinforcement a rat is given to run down an alley way . |
| 26 | MORE than 170 Bosnian refugees have been refused visas to enter Britain , only hours after they turned down an asylum offer from Spain . |
| 27 | The court struck down an area restraint on dealing by an employee but severed that from a restraint on soliciting and supplying . |
| 28 | Before you start on an assembly , you will find it helpful to write down an editing plan . |
| 29 | The sheer mass of Snotlings can overwhelm or tie down an enemy unit even if the tiny creatures do n't cause many casualties ! |
| 30 | In Harlow , Essex , police arrested at least 45 people when they closed down an acid house party attended by 3,000 to 4,000 people at a disused warehouse at 6am yesterday , a police spokesman said . |