Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would burn like arc lamps for a very short duration . |
| 2 | The former acts as a pretty straightforward rhythm channel ; treble , middle and bass rotaries are complemented by a Mid Shift button , which boosts the bass and knocks out some upper mids to create punchier and cleaner tones . |
| 3 | I know not , it may be that Mr is saying this is something that that never it 's never I 've never understood it to be er part of my practice or part of any solicitors practice to offer such a and if we have a solicitor er who has constantly practised in his skills for a very lengthy period of time , that is saying oh yes it is because this , as far as I 'm concerned , standard advice which solicitors should give to clients transactions . |
| 4 | Not only will the advent of records of achievement and GCSE together make considerable demands in this respect in terms of time , it will also require teachers to engage in in-service activities for a very wide range of different assessment procedures . |
| 5 | May I send you my very best wishes for a most successful reunion . |
| 6 | Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year . |
| 7 | Earlier plans for a purely commando raid had been abandoned , as mentioned earlier , because St Nazaire stands on the Loire estuary with only one deep-water channel which was covered by coastal batteries in 1942 . |
| 8 | Worse , David Pascal , chairman of the NCC , turns out to be a devotee of that well-known rightie novelist Tom Clancy , who presumably never splits his infinitives since this , along with a desire to train schoolchildren not to say ‘ He done it ’ appears to be the main components of Mr Pascal 's plans for a more grammatical tomorrow . |
| 9 | This procedural tactic was the burial ceremony of the EDC , and a setback for both the plans for a more effective Western defence system and the hopes and ambitions for a more united Europe . |
| 10 | The Centre — with raids in mind — had devised plans for a relatively silent , low silhouette landing craft that became the LCA ( Landing Craft , Assault ) , and produced some other worthwhile ideas , including methods for supplying troops by air . |
| 11 | The fact that as a teenager she had a series of complicated operations for a badly broken leg does not seem to have affected her at all . |
| 12 | Joe gazed at the ceiling and tapped his fingers for a little longer . |
| 13 | The types of problem on which advice and assistance was sought during the past year is surprisingly , and perhaps regrettably , consistent with the experience of previous years … people who are eligible for advice and assistance are still accustomed to consult solicitors for a comparatively narrow range of problems . ’ |
| 14 | The commissioning of such an overtly Anglican church was seen by the authorities as a deliberately provocative gesture , and when Shirley shortly afterwards refused to contribute towards the military defence of the Cromwellian state , he was imprisoned in the Tower of London , where he later died . |
| 15 | treats the domain of cultural forms and activities as a constantly changing field … looks at the relations which constantly structure this field into dominant and subordinate formations … [ and ] at the process by which these relations of dominance and subordination are articulated' ( Hall 1981 : 235 ) |
| 16 | He was elected by his brethren for a purely utilitarian purpose , but in God 's eyes he remained just another humble seeker . |
| 17 | The linchpins , after all , were such traditionally unsocialist ( or even anti-socialist ) policies as a very severe incomes policy , a move from direct to indirect taxation , and swingeing cuts in public expenditure in both 1976–7 and 1977–8 . |
| 18 | Women regard the family planning programmes as a very mixed blessing . |
| 19 | RYDAL toured Zimbabwe and , following some problems in recent years , feel , despite defeat in all five matches , that they have laid the foundations for a more successful season . |
| 20 | Nobody participates in meetings for a very good reason : anything at all important is all sewn up before it ever gets on the agenda ’ . |
| 21 | The requirement for higher concentrations to disrupt pancreatic lysosomes may reflect the fact that , in an in vitro system , the period of incubation of isolated lysosomes with cholesteryl ester is necessarily limited ( 30 minutes in our study ) whereas in the previous in vivo study , lysosomes were exposed to increased levels of cholesteryl esters for a much longer period ( up to four weeks ) . |
| 22 | It was nearly a year ago , before the Heseltine challenge , says the college 's Principal , Dr John Beynon , that the Prince of Wales 's advisers approached King 's with proposals for a jointly funded study of the potential of Somerset House . |
| 23 | As noted earlier , Widdicombe 's proposals for a far more powerful chief executive were rejected by the government 's 1988 White Paper ( Department of Environment et al . , |
| 24 | In the longer term self-help groups may emerge , where librarians can pool views about recent publications , or library suppliers may see openings for a more active approach . |
| 25 | But this merely shifts the problem where the conflict occurs and calls for a very careful examination of whether , and if so the way in which , the individual is exercising that right . |
| 26 | Secondly , it will answer calls for a less economistic analysis of social change and behaviour . |
| 27 | There have been numerous calls for a more positive statement of the right to demonstrate peacefully , perhaps by the incorporation of Article 11 of the ECHR as part of domestic law . |
| 28 | None of these possibilities is countenanced by competition policy in any of the three jurisdictions previously discussed , though there have been calls for a more protectionist approach in the US . |
| 29 | The message , which apparently tempered earlier calls for a more radical approach to the Baltic republics was , however , received differently by Ukrainian leaders who highlighted the significance of Bush 's visit , the first undertaken by a US leader on a state visit . |
| 30 | Even by the end of the 1920s there were the beginnings of calls for a more directly interventionist role by government and some deliberate trade and industrial policy for the future . |