Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delarivière Manley records somewhat maliciously a ‘ comical Combat ’ between the Egertons , in which Sarah throws a pie at her husband 's face , and dumps butter and drink over his head while he grapples with her topknot . |
| 2 | Although the insider dealer himself contributes only around a tenth of that volume , he gives a clear enough signal to arbitrageurs in the market , reckons the study . |
| 3 | A DOE public information phone line , set up last year , which gives information on sulphur and nitrogen-XXXX related pollution , receives only about a dozen calls a week . |
| 4 | It says making Ingres secure involves only around a 3% addition to the product in terms of code . |
| 5 | In fact the company says that making Ingres secure involves only around a 3% addition to the product in terms of code . |
| 6 | Once she has digested the news that she is unable to conceive naturally , she will be offered IVF — with the caveat that the method has only around a 30% chance of success . |
| 7 | The state railways pay a user charge to the track authority , which is broadly equivalent to the charges faced by road users and covers only about a third of total infrastructure costs . |
| 8 | Their Empire holds so short a Reign ; |
| 9 | I think it looks just looks just just a mess now . |
| 10 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 11 | Now the Presbyterian Church as the Church of Scotland enjoys a unique place in Scottish life and its structures it has a privileged place but I would suggest to you it has also therefore a number of responsibilities and one , I would suggest in this case , is to try and ensure that these local regional teams are in place . |
| 12 | Only Belgium has as high a proportion of over-60s as Britain ( 20.7 per cent ) , compared with the EC average of 19.9 per cent . |
| 13 | I doubt if it ever has as wide a meaning as that . |
| 14 | This is problematic for a group which has no longer a part to play in the productive sector . |
| 15 | It looks very much a way of screening out The Great Wonderful British Public and not having to endure any of their tiresome phone witterings . |
| 16 | This rather sad quote illustrates very sharply a point made in the previous chapter , which is that a field of learning such as physics , which has great power to change our lives , is usually divorced from a consideration of moral issues . |
| 17 | To the joy of jewellers visible light has too low a frequency to excite an electron in a perfect diamond . |
| 18 | For at the heart of that dominant form , the quest-story , there lies very often a denial of fulfilment . |
| 19 | The large number of members involved means that a full meeting of this board would be too cumbersome for the day-to-day administration of the IMF and so it meets only once a year , mainly to ratify any new proposals . |
| 20 | This allows just over a year to look out for possible candidates and suitable premises ; with regard to the latter , teachers are asked to look out for centrally situated schools with a good hall and piano , close to mainline travel facilities . |
| 21 | A ‘ users group ’ meets about once a month to consider any problems over access to the signal and has proved a useful forum for discussion of wider and longer-term issues . |
| 22 | Credit for its success is due to Lord Craigton , chairman of the All-Party Conservation Committee that meets about once a month in the House of Lords . |
| 23 | this is an active club , established some three years ago , which meets regularly twice a month for discussions and demonstrations . |
| 24 | The Longman Group 's semi-official history of the party will doubtless provide the basic starting-point for scholars of twentieth century Conservatism for years to come , but to date it offers still only a largely introductory , if more detailed , survey of the Conservative party in the first three decades of this century . |
| 25 | The latter makes economic sense as water reed costs approximately only a third more for double the life expectancy . |
| 26 | The work that we 've done on er the economy of the city , based on economic analysis which has been submitted as part of my findings , erm shows quite clearly a continued shift away from manufacturing towards service employment and a continuing need to promote new planned opportunities in locations well suited to the needs of the market . |
| 27 | raises yet again a problem that has been before the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions over the past 10 years or so . |
| 28 | It actually sounds , it actually sounds can I put this to you , it sounds less like a Child Support Agency and more like a Treasury support agency every day does n't it ? |
| 29 | The village bus calls just twice a week . |
| 30 | Among the masses there prevails almost universally a total indifference to religion , or at the utmost , some trace of Deism … ’ |