Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencerian analysis not only assigned women a narrow and subordinate role , but also stressed that this was necessary if human progress was to be sustained . |
| 2 | Maybe we ca n't stop that , ’ he hissed , ‘ but we 'd better make maternity a better deal for the others , or we 're going to be overrun . ’ |
| 3 | Numbers not only give managers a better sense of their company 's impact on the environment ; they provide a baseline against which to judge waste reduction . |
| 4 | The church attracted quite large congregations and the Sunday School not only offered pupils a full day trip to the sea during the summer but also splendid Christmas treats , thus somewhat upstaging the Anglicans who had a half day trip to the New Forest with an ordinary Christmas Tea . |
| 5 | Other than perhaps give Colleymore a full blooded game , right ? |
| 6 | Former Welsh international Steve Lovell , on a month 's trial , slid in to give Bournemouth a 19th-minute lead from Kenny Rowlands ' cross , and Denny Mundee paddled in with the dexterity of a sculler to score their second after Mick Bodley 's back pass stuck in a puddle . |
| 7 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 8 | The most important of these were Abergavenny and Glamorgan , which together gave Gloucester a significant interest in the south of the country . |
| 9 | The most important of these were Abergavenny and Glamorgan , which together gave Gloucester a significant interest in the south of the country . |
| 10 | So did meeting a wider group of friends . |
| 11 | It was deja vu as he breezed in to outwit O'Hare a second time . |
| 12 | The Company 's Managing Director , Elaine Reeves , will be there personally offering customers a free hair analysis . |
| 13 | In particular , libraries may be able to offer dial-up video conferencing , once such facilities become cheaply available , so offering users a complete package of information and communication services under one roof . |
| 14 | By apparently offering parents a greater choice of schools , these provisions — as indeed those establishing grant-maintained schools — seek to increase their power as ‘ consumers ’ . |
| 15 | But until very recently systems were generally aimed at the top end of the market , and the cost was high enough to make acquisition a major undertaking . |
| 16 | Because numerous theoretical approaches to visual word-recognition postulate horizontal interconnections between detectors evidence suggesting that such interconnections do not exist serves a vital function in adjudicating between theories . |
| 17 | Peterborough now two one up over Blackpool in the other replay , Peterborough going ahead after three minutes through , a own goal making it one one after fourteen , has just given Peterborough a two goal advantage . |
| 18 | At best , Mr Griffiths has a useful sense of humour , and he does not spare Rustichello a single revelation of his own insignificance . |
| 19 | I think that I have already given way a reasonable number of times . |
| 20 | He does note , in the letter to Zasulich , Morgan 's hope for a future society , which would abandon the obsession with private property , but at the same time he makes it clear that he rightly does not consider Morgan a socialist or a revolutionary . |
| 21 | It is doing so in a way that does not give wind a good name . |
| 22 | Now I 've just seen traffic a long way down here , leading to Ella Park and Warren Lane , now I , I 've never been along here and I do n't know but I c coming up the road I saw cars down here |
| 23 | See I 've already got Ron a big tin of Liquorice Allsorts . |
| 24 | I think that many of us would prefer to see falling rolls as a chance to reduce class size , thus giving pupils a better chance of carrying out practical work in pairs rather than in groups of three or even four . |
| 25 | flo plays wide midfield on norways national team — but i think he is used mainly as a target man for sheff utd. norw coach drillo wants to try a setup with one ‘ Flo ’ as both left and right wide midfielder , then trying to hit hard high , crosses from behind towards the ‘ towers ’ at the sides thus giving football a new dimension of play . |
| 26 | He 's not dirty at all — he just gives defenders a hard time . |
| 27 | I just bought Alan a new pair of jeans . |
| 28 | It thus makes Britain a technological backwater . |
| 29 | Dury , who says he has problems getting past the RSC doormen , but is ‘ persona grata in the Dirty Duck ’ , is the only man I have ever heard glottal-stop a dead language . |
| 30 | The mines inspectorate have admitted to Public Eye , the roof bolting method next to old workings underground made Bilsthorpe a different case from normal , but they stress the system was carefully examined before it was allowed . |