Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
| 2 | The source of meaningfulness of these ideas lies in the logical relationships that bind together a cluster of basic ideas into a coherent pattern Thus if the idea of numerical diversity presupposes the possibility of irreducible relations , the idea of irreducible relations , in its turn , presupposes the possibility of an objective order , and the idea of an objective order ( I shall argue ) is unintelligible without the idea of a plurality of points of view occupied by different selves . |
| 3 | 6 Bind together a group of cinnamon sticks with Christmas ribbon and secure with a pin . |
| 4 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 5 | We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team . |
| 6 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
| 7 | Note that the target struck by the cauldron suffers a strength 5 hit , while remaining targets suffer only a strength 3 hit . |
| 8 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 9 | A couple of recent collections which bring together a range of articles on a variety of topics are 'Femininity' , ‘ Masculinity ’ and ‘ Androgyny ’ : A Modern Philosophical Analysis , edited by Mary Vetterling-Braggin ( 1982b ) and the special issue of Radical Philosophy ( 1983 ) on ‘ Women , Gender and Philosophy ’ . |
| 10 | What distinguishes the series of Criminal Justice Acts is the comprehensiveness with which they bring together a range of generally disparate proposals , originating from different sources , bearing on the content of the criminal law , the powers and procedure of the courts , and the treatment ( in the widest sense ) of offenders . |
| 11 | They bring together a range of information not otherwise collected . |
| 12 | Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition . |
| 13 | I would now ask for very small helpings , eat perhaps a mouthful , and then smear the rest of the food all over the plate , hiding the residue underneath an upturned fork . |
| 14 | The first of these is that the word generally translated as ‘ carpenter ’ does not , in the original Greek , mean merely a woodworker . |
| 15 | My friend , you say only a merlan , I say give me your whiting and I will create a masterpiece — a soufflé de merlan à la Didier . ’ |
| 16 | Most trilobites were broadly oval-shaped being rather longer than wide , not greatly convex , and with eyes that occupy perhaps a quarter of the length of the head . |
| 17 | The settlement of the barbarians was plainly varied , and our sources provide only a hint of its complexities . |
| 18 | We want just a week 's paid holiday ! |
| 19 | Mr Staton always takes a group one so if you say just a minute I 'd like one too . |
| 20 | You say just a comment comment , what about that letter we had ? |
| 21 | Two decades later , policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death , with that amount ravaged by inflation in the intervening period , have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting . |
| 22 | Some policyholders who have contracts which provide just a return of premiums on death have compared the modern alternative and found the earlier contracts wanting |
| 23 | I attach hereto a copy of my DOS Directory plus contents of the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and should appreciate your guidance in this respect . |
| 24 | Return to the bad old ways , elect separately a Chamber and a Senate , then bring them together at Versailles in a National Assembly which would or would not modify the Constitution of 1875 . |
| 25 | Say once a week . |
| 26 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 27 | ‘ I used to see Dad every now and again , say once a month , and we usually spoke over the phone at least once a week . |
| 28 | The volunteer we spoke to works a night time shift once a month . |
| 29 | Drug-users sharing needles contaminated with HIV are likely to be infected within less than five years if they inject once a week , and within three months if injecting 20 times a week . |
| 30 | Second-year units involve both a treatment of general theories and concepts , and discussions of more concrete and practical issues such as Women . |