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 | Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor . |
| 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 | Two Russian seamen died but 80 crew members were rescued yesterday when a Soviet fish factory ship caught fire in the Bay of Biscay , the British coastguard said . |
| 9 | A TRAGEDY was narrowly averted yesterday when a car being pursued by police was in a head-on crash with a family on a day out . |
| 10 | A TRAGEDY was narrowly averted yesterday when a car being pursued by police was in a head-on crash with a family on a day out . |
| 11 | That car 's been parked there over a week , and I was just beginning to wonder about ringing the police . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | JCT 80 provides that ’ Full discharge by the Contractor in respect of payments for materials or goods supplied by the Nominated Supplier shall be effected within 30 days of the end of the month during which delivery is made less only a discount for cash of 5% if so paid . ’ |
| 18 | It 's sited only about a quarter mile from the northern boundary fence . |
| 19 | So , when Mr Goodman enquired about him , George was eager to come to Selhurst Park and most Palace historians agree that , had he done so even a month before the end of 1924–25 , the Palace would never have been relegated from Division Two . |
| 20 | Of the many drawbacks the most ludicrous is that applications can be made only once a year at a certain time . |
| 21 | The publication day of Hank Stych 's book went unremarked in Tollemarche , mainly because the only bookseller in the town had not had time to unpack his new stock , and book reviews were featured only once a month in the Tollemarche Advent and then only in an obscure corner of an inner page . |
| 22 | Sunnie , the 78-year-old wife of Jackie Mann , who was freed just over a year ago , briefly regained consciousness before passing away . |
| 23 | The rift was revealed yesterday when a charge that he attacked lover Joanna Gibson was dropped at her request in court . |
| 24 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 25 | FIVE people died and a teenager was seriously injured yesterday when a car full of youngsters returning from a nightclub struck a tree in the Irish Republic . |
| 26 | The fish are fed sparingly once a day and I carry out a 20% water change every ten days when I use a vacuum to clean the top layer of gravel . |
| 27 | There is of course a fine line between ‘ direct support ’ and ‘ regular monitoring ’ but the main distinction is that people in the previous category were visited at least once a week to give support or help , whereas people in the ‘ monitoring only ’ category were visited about once a fortnight or once a month so that the development officer could ‘ see how things were going ’ . |
| 28 | I mean a ward is going to be seen as rather a big area , when within wards there are priority areas . |
| 29 | This period can be seen as almost a power struggle between the K M T and the C C P competing for peasant support , and the policy changes during this period reflect a change from mass mobilization and smashing local maximizing agricultural production . |
| 30 | Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company . |