Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 2 | Though few investors would believe it , stockmarket indices rarely end a year worth less , in nominal terms , than they began it . |
| 3 | ( Associated Newspapers did the same , and both groups thereby had a useful cushion when the oil price rises and economic crises of the early 1970s saw newsprint prices quadruple . ) |
| 4 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 5 | The pre-pubescent shrieks suddenly reach a crescendo as the chugging electronic beat of the opening bars of ‘ The Locomotion ’ blasts out of the vast sound system . |
| 6 | Starting with a blank sheet of paper and using the wisdom accumulated through more than 150 years of life-saving , the designers and operators together specified a new concept in lifeboats . |
| 7 | During early system evaluation it was found that experts much preferred a simple direct dialogue style that presented basic diagnostic information such as test point values and component values , whereas the inexperienced required more directed problem analysis and advice . |
| 8 | But it should constantly be borne in mind that law and institutions only provide a framework for human activity and , in particular , for political activity . |
| 9 | I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough . |
| 10 | He believed that his views alone provided a safeguard against Antinomianism . |
| 11 | But ‘ old attitudes die hard , ’ and nobody I have spoken to from Tanzania is under any illusion that the changes in content which have been undertaken in curriculum plans and examination policies necessarily reflect a change of heart among all teachers or parents . |
| 12 | The hot garlic butter sauce poured over the snails obviously has a lot to do with the success of the dish , but to those who say that that is all you taste I have always protested that the soft , salty flesh of the snail is very much part of the enjoyment . |
| 13 | Rebate-only plans apparently offered a free pension , as all the money came from the Government . |
| 14 | With two other men he worked his way rhythmically across the sheet , beating the second layer gently with rounded mallets until the starches produced from the pith welded all the strips together to form a sheet , the size of the stone , of white papyrus . |
| 15 | Whereas not all clinics necessarily do a full general examination , it is vital to the doctor to be able to examine the genitalia both externally and internally , because , for reasons that should be clear from preceding chapters , it is impossible to make an accurate diagnosis without such examination . |
| 16 | You can add objects together to make a complex outline or intersect the shapes to produce holes in one object with another . |
| 17 | The auction houses only offer a limited five-year guarantee ( this was first introduced by Sotheby 's in New York in September 1973 ) . |
| 18 | The logic of such views naturally contained a number of contradictions . |
| 19 | Now this one , four hedges together have a mass of two hundred grams how many have a mass of two and ha ? |
| 20 | The dream to join the two ramps together to make a 32ft wide superramp was finally realised this year and the work was completed in March . |
| 21 | For hand scanning , there 's the facility to ‘ stitch ’ scans together to form a larger image than the standard ‘ 4″ wide by as long as you like ’ , which is automatic , quick , and accurate . |
| 22 | Bernard and Ellen went to visit Belinda , who had renounced her separatist tendencies sufficiently to marry a graphics designer . |
| 23 | ‘ This is particularly true of offices , although properties like warehouses and night clubs obviously have a higher-risk record . ’ |
| 24 | The extent to which it would be mistaken to take our own rituals literally provides a standard from which to assess our understanding of the rituals and statements of other cultures . |
| 25 | Does attention to unconscious wishes and conflicts necessarily produce a more careful gender politics ? |
| 26 | a great State will mean so many hours less work a day , and so much more pay a day . |
| 27 | As far as the direct effects of test-case litigation are concerned , therefore , experience both here and in the USA suggests that it would be unwise to look to the courts alone to secure a right of tax-diversion . |
| 28 | The waves and the pebbles together constitute a simple example of a system that automatically generates non-randomness . |
| 29 | On Nov. 29 , 1989 , the second reading began in Parliament of a bill which would empower the government to nominate six non-elected members to the 81-seat legislature [ see p. 33403 for introduction of constitutional amendment in 1984 which created three " non-constituency " seats in parliament for unsuccessful opposition candidates thereby ensuring a limited opposition to the PAP ] . |
| 30 | Because these relationships rarely form a coherent totality , political cultures themselves , including labourism , are replete with internal contradictions and inconsistencies . |