Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose ( 1868 ) , do not obviously suggest serious historical study , but are rather part of a long series of more popular works on Mary , in which Jean Plaidy and Madeleine Bingham are among the most recent exponents ; and there is a certain charm about the publication , in 1793 , of a work by one J. F. Gaum , Marie Stuart und Marie Antoinette in der Underwelt . |
| 2 | Coventry , flying high , take on Spurs in a live TV game tomorrow night at Highfield Road . |
| 3 | There are no steps to get on and off the ‘ Mildred Stocks ’ ; wheelchairs can be wheeled straight on board on a special ramp and people with sticks or walking aids will have no problems . |
| 4 | In other words , we need to recognize that many apparently independent units of production are , without being legally owned subsidiaries , so dominated through subcontracting and purchasing arrangements , that they are effectively part of a single unit of capitalist production . |
| 5 | The bones consist of lagomorph remains for the most part with a few small lizards and rodents . |
| 6 | While the Treaty as a whole was deeply humiliating to Germany , it was accepted for the most part with a sullen resignation and silent disgust . |
| 7 | Officially the trams , which use railway lines for the most part with a quick dive into the streets as they reach the city centre , are ‘ Light Rapid Transit ’ vehicles , or LRTs . |
| 8 | ‘ The cairn 's surface is composed essentially of limestone screes stabilised for the most part beneath a shallow , fragile turf , ’ said Andre . |
| 9 | She dresses for the most part in a pink frilly fairy costume in which she walks down to the beach , paints , dances and collects snails . |
| 10 | History in the primary school therefore presents the paradox of some fine work , which is set in an uncertain curricular pattern , and is too rarely part of a firm curriculum plan . |
| 11 | His belief that his fitness problems may at last be over stems from an unusual remedy — putting on weight as a conscious policy . |
| 12 | A young red deer puts on weight at a considerable rate during its first summer , but its growth is reduced to less than half of this rate during the winter . |
| 13 | When we view a scene , we are gaining an impression of our surroundings by the way in which light is absorbed or reflected from objects , but light is only part of a vast spectrum of electromagnetic waves . |
| 14 | The idea of a computerised , centrally based and centrally updated information system sent via telecommunications to all bureaux is only part of a golden jubilee wish-list . |
| 15 | Simplicity and ceremonial seem to express the changing pattern of Nonconformist worship but that worship was only part of a wider search for dignity , a dignity which was mainly realized in the new and improved buildings Nonconformity was erecting up and down the country . |
| 16 | Like section 6 , this section is only part of a wider principle of common law . |
| 17 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 18 | But his depression at the failure of the play was only part of a pervasive depression from which he was now suffering . |
| 19 | It must be stressed that these examples refer in some cases to complete pieces of music , in others to themes which form only part of a longer movement . |
| 20 | What was written almost 30 years ago remains substantially true : ‘ Countries including many language and culture groups , like most African and Asian ones , have not split up , and those taking in only part of a single language group , like the Arab ones and North Africa , have … not united . ’ |
| 21 | This is important to those involved with it , for whom that engagement is only part of a continuing career pattern . |
| 22 | First , that it was only part of a larger scheme , yet Hope had made the point that the new Foreign Office should conform to a larger plan . |
| 23 | Their influence on fiction , immense as it has been , is evidently only part of a larger pattern of social influence . |
| 24 | But any thought or consideration given to working men was only part of a larger strategy of appealing to the public generally . |
| 25 | Police know today 's haul is only part of a long-running problem . |
| 26 | Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action . |
| 27 | As a result , a number of Palestinian intellectuals and development workers began arguing that liberation from Israel was only part of a broader process and indeed unless that broader process , which implied radical economic change , took place no liberation from Israel was likely . |
| 28 | The government offensive in Arakan was only part of a broader offensive launched against rebel forces in late 1991 . |
| 29 | In the Titan he had only been a partial paladin — merely part of a vaster amplified body which also comprised Tundrish and Valence and Zed Juron and , oh yes , Akbar too . |
| 30 | In fact the channelling of reports and dissertations towards educationally productive goals is merely part of a wider and far more important issue , that of establishing a new climate of opinion among teachers and those who train them which regards enquiry about the learners and the environment in which they learn as an important part of a teacher 's professional life , which seeks to develop interests and provide skills for them to do so as part of their training and retraining and which rewards initiatives undertaken in college and subsequently . |