Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the new system to be introduced properly involves a change of constitution and a further vote . |
| 2 | erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same . |
| 3 | It amounts to an agreement by Member States not to employ their veto to prevent a majority decision , and effectively represents a reversal of the Luxembourg Compromise . |
| 4 | It presumably represents an epoch of geomorphological maturity and plate stability . |
| 5 | However , the diversity of the range of information and its potentially extensive scope do require consideration of the methods by which the data may be collected and thereby offers an opportunity for the development of more creative ways of defining and discussing with older people these various areas of their lives . |
| 6 | Forget the old adage about non-stop bicycling ; the growing Community badly needs a decade of constitutional calm . |
| 7 | For that investment the member gets a stake in the club and in the freehold , and thereby has a say in how it is run . |
| 8 | Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege . |
| 9 | Herein lies a paradox for the classical view . |
| 10 | There should therefore be a significant and fluctuating gravitational red shift of the pulsar period P : which numerically has an amplitude of order . |
| 11 | somewhere wants a card from you . |
| 12 | The passengers were saddened by the thought that they were unlikely to see their native land again but probably neither before nor since has a group of people set out with more determination to establish a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education . |
| 13 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 14 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 15 | The user merely supplies a title for the product and LIFESPAN allocates a product identifier to it . |
| 16 | Beyond the Seventies pastiche which swamped last season 's collections , there is a strong appetite for simplicity and something which perhaps evokes an emphasis on inner beauty . |
| 17 | The use of the word ‘ gender ’ not only denotes an emphasis on the social ( as opposed to biological ) attributes of women and men , but also indicates a recognition of the relationship between masculinity and femininity . |
| 18 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 19 | In a sentence such as ( 1b ) not only does did situate its lexical supplement ( eat ) in time like any other auxiliary , but it also evokes all the time necessary to actualize the infinitive 's lexeme and so produces a representation of an event seen from beginning to end as something that really takes its place in time . |
| 20 | The crucial issue is whether this merely represents a transfer in wealth from the acquirer , or whether there is an increase in wealth overall . |
| 21 | What causes offence is that he merely represents a shifting of values for the mass of young people . |
| 22 | It is important to do justice to the situation , which necessarily involves a description of a very remarkable woman for whom I have considerable respect . |
| 23 | Failure to do so constitutes an invasion of personality which the state is not entitled to commit if its claim to respect individual rights is to be taken seriously . |
| 24 | Yet in this case I think that the block , which perhaps represents a bed on the level of reality , is in the ( statue ) metaphor reclaiming the man . |
| 25 | The first stage , it should be noted , does not necessarily rule out the possibility of ontological pluralism , unless it explicitly includes the thesis of independence of substance ; it merely involves a rejection of the view that properties and relations are two mutually separate and incommensurable categories , with relations allegedly being purely extrinsic " to ( and hence making no difference to the essential nature of ) their terms . |
| 26 | This merely involves a couple of beers in the evening , not even light training for the real thing of which Spain has seen far too much . |
| 27 | However , this only represents a proportion of the total wintering population , as other localities are known to attract substantial flocks ; for example , up to 250 have been recorded recently at Warnham Mill Pond and the Adur Levels , up to 300 at Pevensey Levels , up to 450 at Swanbourne Lake , and 500 in Lewes Brooks . |
| 28 | However , this is not unusual for this industry due to the long lead times involved and in fact only represents a recovery to 1988 levels . |
| 29 | In the resultative sense of know , which can be found both in the non-past and the past ( I know/knew it to be true ) , know merely evokes a state of possessing knowledge , and this state is conceived as the condition for representing the infinitive event as a reality . |
| 30 | It can be used to date finds from anywhere in the world and so offers a means of comparing dated finds from different regions . |