Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if you make a cup very deep and turn the sides over , you eventually make a lensless pinhole camera . |
| 2 | People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another . |
| 3 | Center Parcs have done their market research — they know that their target market want the healthy Nineties lifestyle and duly provide a huge sports hall . |
| 4 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 5 | The door was flung wide , and inside lay a dark cave . |
| 6 | The walk is expected to last all day so bring a packed lunch . |
| 7 | The evidence he has collected shows that working people of the last century were able to hold an image of society from their own experience and so articulate a political consciousness . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly , the fact that both mothers and daughters are able to have babies and so enact a continuing cycle makes their dilemma of finding a harmonious balance difficult . |
| 9 | This will , of course , only introduce a new level of complexity . |
| 10 | The experiments just mentioned not only introduce a much-needed control procedure but they also extend the generality of the effect . |
| 11 | That analysis is so well understood in North America that their discrimination statutes merely enact a general prohibition on employment discrimination on account of disability . |
| 12 | Sometimes we so devalue a physical approach to the world that we begin to devalue action itself . |
| 13 | There are still many experts sceptical about just how much influence a volcanic explosion can have on the weather . |
| 14 | I can not express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides ; they rise , they fall , they whirl , they soar as on wings of light , they cast shadows , they give grand mystery , and anon reveal some hidden dell , some great bare precipice , or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure . |
| 15 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
| 16 | By chastising a horse , we only make a tense situation worse . |
| 17 | You will need to remove all pots and switches to do this , so make a good diagram of the wiring before you do so . |
| 18 | The basic purpose of this filter is to smooth out the chopped waveform appearing from the switch and so provide a steady output voltage across a load resistance R L , though it does this job in an unconventional way . |
| 19 | There are two sides to this , the travellers and the people who quite rightfully want a quiet life |
| 20 | Software and cards together provide a complete authoring and delivery environment of unrivalled power . |
| 21 | The two books taken together provide a fascinating portrait of the break-down of conventions over the century between their composition . |
| 22 | The study of Magritte 's art , long dependent upon Suzi Gablik 's short monograph completed in 1970 , has received a sharp boost with the publication of three new books , each of which serves a slightly different purpose but only together provide a comprehensive evaluation of the artist as he has been researched by David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield . |
| 23 | 1.1 Direct and indirect restraints Most cases quite obviously involve a direct restraint on the covenantor from doing a certain thing or things . |
| 24 | I think it 's easy to be glib about this , there are clearly an awful lot of landlords and landladies around who provide an excellent service and merely want a reasonable rent in return for offering a decent service . |
| 25 | Mm , so you only want a small amount then really do n't you ? |
| 26 | No , no only want a little bit . |
| 27 | Of course — and especially when you only want a single rose to fill a gap — it is all very easy to succumb to the highly coloured and neatly packaged entreaties to impulse buying , conspicuously displayed in supermarkets , DIY garden centres , and even the local street market . |
| 28 | Remember that the opportunist thief travels light , but your garden shed will probably contain all the tackle he needs to force an entry ( plus a ladder to reach inaccessible areas ) , so fit a good quality lock or padlock to your shed door , and put in window locks , or screw windows to the frame for maximum security . |
| 29 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 30 | As pointed out above , firstly , their budgets only cover a limited range of services and , secondly , unlike DHAs , GPs can select which patients to take on and thus include in their budget . |