Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such Arbitrator shall be at liberty to construe this Agreement and deal with differences arising thereunder as an honourable engagement and not be bound by strict rules of law . |
| 2 | The LIFESPAN username has been created successfully as an immediate descendant of the requesting user ( this can not be altered ) . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's such a jerk , ’ she remarked , remembering him as he left the breakfast table clad in the dark , light-weight suit which hung uneasily between an older idea of what was appropriate to the businessman and the current notion that , since it was no longer altogether cool to be a businessman , the person in the fast lane to wealth should appear relaxed and unconstrained . |
| 4 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |
| 5 | Intel 's Michael Pope said the the AST Manhattan was spot on for an emerging market for what he termed shrink wrapped servers — application server sold with pre-installed operating system and database software . |
| 6 | He was informed that he would have to sign on for an extra year to join the guards , but he told his mother , ‘ I 'll stay as long as I choose . |
| 7 | Most will stay on for an extra year at school or go into some form of further training . |
| 8 | And Adam Hinton , the photographer , called on for an impartial view , agrees — blast him . |
| 9 | Patrick Kelly , whom Dan would look on as an ill-educated lout , had actually spent time on her enjoyment . |
| 10 | History rather suggests that the discipline needed for insurrection lingers on as an authoritative force after the revolution in a way that blocks the larger end of a socialism that advances opportunities for freedom and self-development through a true democracy of equals . |
| 11 | Sheena Falconer , senior lecturer in textiles , has been told by the principal , Dr David Kennedy , that there is room for only one textile lecturer , but that she could stay on as an ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Barbara Diack . |
| 12 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 13 | Brought up at a cultivated and tolerant court and doted on as an only child , she became a catch on the German dynastic marriage market . |
| 14 | Kieren began work for the authority as a trainee solicitor in 1982 and stayed on as an Assistant Solicitor until 1987 when appointed a Senior Assistant Solicitor . |
| 15 | Thinking that he preferred to make a career in journalism , after failing his second professional examination in 1882 , he signed on as an able seaman , went from Port Mackay to the South Sea Islands to study the traffic in Kanaka islanders , and published his findings in the Melbourne Age , arousing considerable controversy . |
| 16 | I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units . |
| 17 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 18 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 19 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 20 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 21 | The alternative view sees constitutions not as a conscious creation but rather as an evolutionary consequence made up of ‘ substantive principles to be deduced from a nation 's actual institutions and their development ’ ( McIlwain , ibid . ) . |
| 22 | If the unconscious means anything whatsoever , it is that the relation of self and others , inner and outer , can not be grasped as an interval between Polar and opposites but rather as an irreducible dislocation of the subject in which the other inhabits the self as its condition of possibility . |
| 23 | Aboriginals , it was true , could not imagine territory as a block of land hemmed in by frontiers : but rather as an interlocking network of " lines " or " ways through " . |
| 24 | But as Ted Sandy-man ought to have realised , ‘ you 've got to have grist before you can grind ’ ; machine-masters end up machine-minders , and all for nothing , or rather for an insidious logic of expansion . |
| 25 | Hankin added : ‘ I think fans have waited long enough for an outstanding performance at home . |
| 26 | And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession . |
| 27 | But … ’ he pursed his lips , considering , ‘ well , enough for an old man . |
| 28 | I liked to think that , while discreet enough for an important occasion , the ensemble made its own kind of personal statement . |
| 29 | But then , she might somehow get the drawing right , just as she had dreamed of playing the clarinet exquisitely enough for an important conductor , conveniently marooned in a snow drift , brought half-dead to Castle Bewick and hearing those magical notes drifting from her tower , to stagger from his couch and say , ‘ Ah what notes of fairyland do I hear ? ’ |
| 30 | This study will examine such problems , as and when they arise — and will do so through an ethnographic grasp of cultural differences and misunderstandings on topics that might range from the price of butter to question of minorities , language , drugs and terror . |