Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Falling Down represents a New Brutalism in the cinema . |
| 32 | Nevertheless , the list of Confluent words which follows disregards the stances involved , which number almost nine thousand and are all named , and merely offers a few definitions , some of which must be regarded as tentative . |
| 33 | ‘ Song to Cloe , playing on her Spinnet ’ especially displays a delicate touch and a complete control of form . |
| 34 | ‘ Nobody from the chief executive down begrudges a single penny spent on health , safety and the environment , ’ said HSE group manager John Dobson . |
| 35 | This not only produces a balanced form to the plant , carrying and showing the blooms to advantage , but reduces hindrance to air movement to a minimum . |
| 36 | This suggests that the quality of interhemispheric control merely represents a particular style of cerebral organisation which can certainly become a potential biological vehicle for psychotic disorder but which , in favourable circumstances , constitutes a brain mechanism responsible for the flexibility of thought found in some creative people . |
| 37 | In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect . |
| 38 | The group invites specialists to assist in writing these documents and so encourages a wider circle of advisers on the issues we discuss . |
| 39 | The environment you choose to learn in plays a crucial role in how well you progress . |
| 40 | Ethnography necessarily involves a narrow view of the group or institution studied , since the researcher can not , by definition , study the wider context within which the research setting is located . |
| 41 | The regulation of insider dealing necessarily involves a complex assessment of the available regulatory options . |
| 42 | It suggests that translating between languages with different priorities and different types of syntactic restrictions necessarily involves a great deal of skewing of patterns of information flow . |
| 43 | It is in this sense that the former has a greater valency and so constitutes a better learning investment . |
| 44 | For though Burbank 's fall , that mere matter of crossing ‘ a little bridge ’ to a ‘ small hotel ’ ( my italics ) is a shrunken affair , lacking the panoramic mythological grandeur of the Shakespearian Antony 's , it none the less offers a stripped-down representation of that event . |
| 45 | The limpet , like Neopilina , produces shell at an equal rate right round the circumference of the mantle and so builds a simple pyramid . |
| 46 | But the objection here might be that the suggested paraphrase merely involves a surreptitious quantification over propositions . |
| 47 | If this were so , we could argue that the poem only represents a temporary loss of faith , instead of the turning-point in Wordsworth 's career . |
| 48 | Foster 's recall for the second Cornhill Test at Lord 's not only represents a major gamble , however , but also underlines a desperate shortage of fit and in-form pace candidates . |
| 49 | Mercury currently only offers a single level of service termed ‘ primary rate ’ . |
| 50 | Anomie only offers a plausible account of deviant motivation if the cultural goal of success is as unidimensional as Merton suggests and if the pursuit of this goal is prevalent amongst those with blocked legitimate opportunities . |
| 51 | The coin belongs to the Persian period , bears the inscription " Judaea " ( YHD ) , and shows a figure on a winged throne or on a chariot : this figure apparently confronts a Dionysiac mask ( B. Kanael , The Biblical Archaeologist 26 ( 1963 ) , 40 and fig. 2 ) . |
| 52 | Unlike many other contracts , the courts have not exercised a strong influence over the framework of this relationship and the common law only imposes a few terms upon leasehold parties . |
| 53 | ‘ This obviously offers a great potential for sourcing products locally and for pursuing joint ventures either at home or abroad . ’ |
| 54 | Both pickups on together produces a gorgeous rhythm sound , slightly Stratty , slightly Gretschy ( great for rockabilly ) and with a hint of Peter Green , too . |
| 55 | Reynolds 's Newspaper viewed ‘ all the fuss and bother ’ as ‘ a mere club-house panic ’ , for example , while The Daily News repeatedly warned of the way in which ‘ a social panic naturally produces a great deal of wild excited talk ’ , believing that ‘ the enormous crop of exaggerated and fictitious stories ’ was ‘ furnishing food for farce writers and arrangers of pantomimes ’ : |
| 56 | only wants a tiny bit . |
| 57 | This is a this is a question we very often get asked , why do they sell a thirteen amp fuse with a thirteen amp plug if it only wants a five amp in ? |
| 58 | The third point is that the opponent 's fist only needs a slight deflection so you should n't need to make your action too pronounced . |
| 59 | It only needs a voyeuristic archbishop and an alien disguised as Elvis Presley to provide the material for an entire Sunday Sport . |
| 60 | One coach only needs a small amount of work to restore it to its original condition , but the other requires extensive work . |