Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such ambivalence often figures within transgressive reinscription , and is one reason why it rarely approximates to a straightforwardly ‘ correct ’ political attitude . |
| 2 | As the Socialist left 's relationship with the moderates in its own party deteriorated , so links with a suddenly expanding Communist Party grew closer . |
| 3 | Today , they are a half-forgotten group , long since disbanded , whose name only qualifies for a where-are-they-now status . |
| 4 | It is important to realize that the scope of a scheme which apparently focuses on a relatively narrow area may be quite wide by the time all fringe topics ( which are relevant to or have some impact upon the core area ) have been noted . |
| 5 | So if you complain about your council tax , do n't , students are exempt anyway so that 's alright , if you complain about your council tax do n't because it only pays for a very small fraction of what local authorities spend . |
| 6 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 7 | Stencil only demonstrates in a more manic form a common desire to know , to gain certainty , which is enacted through the related figures of penetrating surfaces , interrogation , breaking codes , and above all analysing texts . |
| 8 | What at first sounds like Americans with too much free time on their hands soon evolves into a startlingly open-minded and enriching panorama of soundgames and rock ‘ n ’ roll graffiti . |
| 9 | The presence of small amounts of the expressed polypeptide in the E.coli lysate prior to the induction indicates that the expression already occurs to a very low extent in the absence of IPTG , as previously observed in other cases ( 25 ) . |
| 10 | Postulating the presence of a generalized person in the infinitive whose position in time as support of the infinitive 's event is either coincident or subsequent to another position of this same person , at which it is often represented as support of some other event , thus leads to a more profound comprehension of the motives underlying the use of to . |
| 11 | Gilligan 's work , which tries to transcend the gendering of moral values , finally returns to a traditionally feminine set of values . |
| 12 | This usually happens after a fairly senior personal effort to cheer the Distillers Company on to greater profitability , but not always . |
| 13 | This quickly leads to a very large number of partial hypotheses as words are combined . |
| 14 | As a result , the misappropriation theory still rests on a rather precarious foothold . |
| 15 | Some moves have been made to deregulate the private rented sector , but this still accounts for a relatively insignificant part of the housing stock . |
| 16 | The voice first rises from a fairly low to a high pitch and then quickly falls to a very low pitch . |
| 17 | The change always presses toward a more or less automatic self-supervision , the subordination of short-term impulses to the commandment of a habitual long-term perspective , and the cultivation of a more stable and differentiated super-ego apparatus . |
| 18 | This in turn does n't help his voice , which rarely breaks from a rather lazy-sounding , aspirant Jack Nicholson-style Californian croak . |
| 19 | If the textual sprawl of today 's average ‘ quality ’ newspaper ultimately represents less than the sum of its sections , then it also represents in a more immediate sense the collapse of what Neville Wakefield has recently described as ‘ a world in which information can still be organised and evaluated and hierarchised according to rigid structures of meaning ’ The new generation of ‘ top people 's papers wear their manifold contradictions firmly on their sleeves . |
| 20 | Not only does this increase costs and emphasise differences between richer and poorer children but it also contributes to a very inflexible and inefficient distribution of learning materials , since under this system ‘ shared ’ material is never bought — only class texts — and it is by no means uncommon to find that as a result a class may end up with only two or three books at its disposal , all in multiple copies . |
| 21 | Political intervention also occurs in a much brasher , more destructive form . |
| 22 | This formulation also allows for a rather more subtle and flexible notion of the relationship between the literary and the non-literary . |
| 23 | Trials have also shown that crops like maize ( Zea mays ) and cassava ( Manihot esculenta ) provide higher yields when alley-cropped with leguminous bushes and trees because of the increased availability of nitrogen which also results in a considerably reduced fertiliser requirement . |
| 24 | It also suffers from a purely ‘ mathematical ’ approach to its typography although this issue will be corrected from Version 2.0 , due to be released towards the end of this year . |
| 25 | In addition to the types of conjunction discussed by Halliday and Hasan , English also relies on a highly developed punctuation system to signal breaks and relations between chunks of information . |
| 26 | Since the briefing covers mainframes , departmental systems , office products and communications , it also serves as a very useful general review of data processing . |
| 27 | The SDA also operates within a very different political and administrative environment to that in England ( Morison , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | But Todd also comes to a more pessimistic conclusion : |
| 29 | Hunter observed that ‘ … the whole viscera when all the Blood is press 'd out goes into a very little bulk , even the Liver will lose vastly of its bulk and in short the whole viscera will come into a small compass when they are well clean 'd and put into dry cloths ; you are then to go to the trunk of the Body and empty it of Blood as well as you can and press the Blood out from the Face , Hands , etc. as well as Arms , and the more Blood is pressed out the better ’ . |
| 30 | The world 's population now stands at a little over four billion . |