Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb -s] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , it 's looking a little dated now ; the steering wheel is absurdly large , even by Mercedes ' standards , and someone else makes a smoother , quieter V8 . |
| 2 | If I were Harold of Wessex , which I 'm glad I 'm not , I should send a polite embassy soon , preferably under Bishop Ealdred ; to extract the child before someone else has a better idea . |
| 3 | One of them admittedly retains a glazed , half-shut look , but the other , propped open behind his monocle , continues to observe the world with bulbous attention . |
| 4 | Moreover , almost everyone already has a firm mental picture of the American police that has been acquired from a lifetime 's film- and television-viewing . |
| 5 | Can I can I say that in my opinion that the county council 's current budgeting strategy which effectively imposes a two percent efficiency saving which I might add in figures come to something like one point five million erm is , is of concern but what is of greater concern is the further possibility of a four percent er reduction which is being sought in blocks of three percent and one percent next year for ninety four ninety five which is to the amount of two point eight million at the current prices will in my opinion decimate the present level of service provision in policing . |
| 6 | This argument , that the Scottish party should elect its own leader , raise its own funds , hire and fire its own staff and sit in a Westminster coalition with the English and Welsh Labour Party , is something which acutely interests a few hundred activists , but not many MPs , and one guesses , precious few voters . |
| 7 | I 'm thinking , for example , it 's not a medicine as such , but I 'm thinking of the birth control pill , which presumably has a possible effect in its particular form over a period perhaps twenty years , rather than five years , on a person . |
| 8 | The first stage in the transfer is a preselection process , involving informal discussions with tenants where they may make their own alternative suggestions , which eventually produces a single applicant to go forward to the final stages . |
| 9 | this soon tangles itself in a web of white noise and frantic improvisation which eventually has a hypnotising effect on the audience . |
| 10 | They have become impotent — a fact which naturally causes a great deal of anxiety to them and to their wives . |
| 11 | It is easy enough now for me to convince you that what you need is a PC running Windows and capable of running up-to-date software such as Timeworks 3 and Works for Windows ( which basically means a 386 , although an SX model will do ) . |
| 12 | Standing to paddle , the fishermen are extended by their reflections and appear to be walking on the water on wavering stilts , their long paddles a second leg . |
| 13 | Literature is based on ‘ the very plurality of meanings ’ ( 1966 : 50 ) ; or , put in a slightly different way which nicely reverses an old critical saw , ‘ a work is ‘ eternal ’ , not because it imposes one meaning on different men , but because it suggests different meanings to one man' ( p.51 ) . |
| 14 | The island of Porto Santo has a regular air link with Madeira by a small Air Portugal plane which only takes a few minutes . |
| 15 | She says of the building societies : ‘ How dare they ignore the real needs of loyal customers by pursuing a marketing ploy which only benefits a few . |
| 16 | Becoming angry in the face of this reception , the Germans started what subsequently became known as a rastrellamento , which literally means a raking — a detailed search of the area . |
| 17 | Volcanic clusters occur both on continental and oceanic lithosphere , and are particularly common on the African Plate which apparently has a high concentration of hot spots ( see Section 4.2.1 ) . |
| 18 | But he said the province was now faced with ‘ a quite alarming series of incidents , which perhaps marks a new phase in the terrorist campaign , and it has serious implications for people in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 19 | This was recently confirmed by the discovery of an F0/F1-type ATPase in an archaebacterium which already harbours a V-type enzyme . |
| 20 | The developer hopes it would link with the existing Magnetic Imaging Centre , which already operates a sophisticated body scanner . |
| 21 | The developers hope it will link with the existing Magnetic Imaging Centre , which already operates a sophisticated body scanner . |
| 22 | Parties refused authorization had a right of appeal before an administrative judge , and the MPS , " which already leads a public life by virtue of being the source and guarantor of the institutions provided for in the National Charter " , was exempted from certain registration formalities . |
| 23 | The prime candidate is Dutch group Heineken , which already has a 1 per cent-plus Whitbread stake and a long-term agreement to sell its beers through Whitbread 's pubs . |
| 24 | Du Pont , which already has a large complex in Northern Ireland , decided to locate a new software centre to service all its European needs in the Antrim Technology Park . |
| 25 | California joins Alaska which already has a Green Party , and Hawaii and Arizona may soon follow suit . |
| 26 | Smith New Court , which already has a sizeable position in Ferranti shares , was a heavy buyer for the second day , as was Hoare Govett , which includes British Aerospace among its corporate clients . |
| 27 | A re-investigation which largely involves a fresh examination of evidence , witnesses , and hypotheses about the commission of the crime , is better conceived as an independent verification procedure . |
| 28 | Or do they play only a minor role which nevertheless gives a vital clue to the unfolding of the plot ? |
| 29 | Deep modulation at frequencies -I " is clearly only possible if " , so we still require a " bad cavity " , and we may note that the spectral holes form and refill on a time scale which thus plays an important role in the phenomenon : it has been claimed { 20 } that " population pulsations ' are the primary source of the instability . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , everything important is included on Sony 's single disc , which thus enjoys a considerable price advantage . |