Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't revealed their presence because our solar system is being treated rather like a nature reserve — that they do n't want to interpose themselves and spoil a very classic example of study of a lesser civilization growing up . |
| 2 | We were most often directed to library skills and study skills lessons in which children were being taught rather unimaginatively a range of things from the Dewey Decimal Classification to the use of the full stop ! |
| 3 | Between Hendaye-Plage and its parent of Hendaye , there is much water side , because Hendaye is hidden defensively away a mile from the sea , on the wide estuary of the river Bidassoa . |
| 4 | From the late seventies , to the nineteen eighties or rather from the from the seventies , not just late seventies , to the nineteen eighties , it 's come down about a thousand broad terms , a thousand dwellings a year fewer being built . |
| 5 | The commission responsible for undertaking this revision was convoked only once a week by its president , Ottaviani . |
| 6 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 7 | Perhaps out of guilt , Harriet discontinued her writing and stopped seeing Mill , with whom she had dined alone twice a week , in order to nurse her husband . |
| 8 | Since January , when the package went on limited release in the US , the company says it has been installed in over a dozen sites including MCI Communications Corp , Xerox Corp and American Express Co . |
| 9 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 10 | He had rolled over just a little , and opened his eyes . |
| 11 | To serve and suffer is considered not only a woman 's lot but right . |
| 12 | In fact , I had already picked up quite a lot about ‘ Lucky ’ Lucan and what had happened . |
| 13 | It had picked up quite a bit of loose weed which kept jamming in the top ring , but this was periodically removed by Mr Gardner who , by now , knew I had a good fish on and had been warned that any foul-ups at the net would seriously hinder his future fathering capabilities . |
| 14 | ROCK star Elton John 's prized £400,000 Jaguar sports car has been smashed up just a month after it was delivered . |
| 15 | ‘ Four areas have come out firstly a database , information and networks ; then the idea of a convention , festival or seminar ; training and education ; and lastly music business associations and what they can achieve . ’ |
| 16 | If females are well spaced out then a male would have great difficulty in monopolising more than one at time . |
| 17 | erm But we dug our toes in , and in fact it was sorted out over a week ago . |
| 18 | This brief article has necessarily picked out only a few aspects of diamond . |
| 19 | We have now carried out successfully a total of 27 national surveys without undue disruption to schools , with the general support of the LEAs and teachers concerned … and with the enthusiastic cooperation of the children we have tested … |
| 20 | So you 've carried out quite a lot of your studies actually in Germany . |
| 21 | As tests were being carried out yesterday a safety official said : ‘ If there 's a fault we 'll have it taken off the shelves . ’ |
| 22 | That car 's been parked there over a week , and I was just beginning to wonder about ringing the police . |
| 23 | If the product is a high-quality , high-cost item , then distribution costs will probably represent a small proportion of total costs of manufacturing and marketing it , and so physical distribution may be considered very much a secondary issue . |
| 24 | Mr Justice Simon Brown , the High Court judge , had expected too high a standard of care and expertise in the firm 's performance of its duties towards the Luxmoore-Mays . |
| 25 | It was announced on state radio on Jan. 4 that Goma-Foutou , in his capacity as Territorial Administration Minister , had banned state radio journalists from broadcasting news about opposition parties ; these had been legalized just over a week earlier . |
| 26 | The Water Authority , well , there again , they 're interested to some extent in forecast rainfall , but they 're more interested in erm how much rain has fallen over quite a big area and erm over what a , what sort of period , so we maintain all the rainfall statistics throughout the country . |
| 27 | But many borrowers — nearly 3 million on ‘ budget ’ repayment schemes — wo n't feel the draught immediately because their monthly repayments are adjusted just once a year . |
| 28 | In reality , the stories were recalled over only a short period of time and major event alterations did not occur , but both deaf and hearing people recalled the main episodes equally well and there was no significant difference in the number of events recalled . |
| 29 | The two key protective factors are the highly competitive nature of the mortgage market and the preponderance of mortgage budget schemes which are altered just once a year to cater for interest rate fluctuations . |
| 30 | It is important to note that we are given not simply a description of a scene , but an account of the relation between the visual world and its observer , who strives to comprehend and interpret it . |