Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue . |
| 2 | For these commentators Wilde represents both a cultural ‘ decay ’ and a resurrection of ‘ pagan viciousness ’ and ‘ primal errors ’ ( pp. 98 , 134 ) . |
| 3 | To provide people with the opportunity to acquire even a tiny stake in the land is a daunting task calling for wisdom , courage , and political integrity almost unheard of in modern times . |
| 4 | Did the experience of plenty bring about a fundamental change in the American or British character ? |
| 5 | French doctors have treated dozens of patients in minutes using only a local anaesthetic . |
| 6 | To start with the computer made not a blind bit of difference . |
| 7 | By public demand their split became merely a brief sabbatical , and since being reunited the Blues Band have been playing their cocktail of traditional blues and original material around the globe . |
| 8 | Peggy made quite a good joke . |
| 9 | Bruce Critchley and David Sheehan gave the amateurs some hope when they ran out as comfortable 5 & 3 winners over Ken Bousfield and Geoff Hunt , while Warren Humphreys and Michael Lunt fought out a halved match with Peter Butler and Peter Mills but elsewhere there were wins for Alliss and Hunt ( 4 & 3 ) , Dawson and Platts ( 4 & 3 ) , Clark and Guy Hunt ( 1 hole ) and Wood and Garner ( 3 & 2 ) . |
| 10 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 11 | As for clothes , fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label . |
| 12 | Is it really relevant that most of that military money produced not a single weapon ? |
| 13 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 14 | provide an opportunity to carry out a few simple tests ( such as checking your blood pressure ) : |
| 15 | This exclusion is designed to focus the Merger Regulation on operations bringing about a lasting change in the structure of the undertakings concerned . |
| 16 | Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position . |
| 17 | The polymorphism that is found within white clover populations in the field represents therefore a subtle ( or ? random ) variety of unique associations of apparently selectively important properties . |
| 18 | John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |
| 19 | Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others . |
| 20 | The entrance to the Casa Sciorto led off a narrow side-street , its huge carved door embellished with massive brass door-knockers in the shape of diving dolphins . |
| 21 | In fact , we are at the New Athenaeum Theatre at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where New Moves is presenting the Vicente Saez company from Spain , the first of three European groups to round off a superb season of dance . |
| 22 | If the retailer builds up a good relationship with his customers they will keep coming back — and maybe tell their friends . |
| 23 | This high level is a primary risk in heart disease , since excess cholesterol builds up a sticky silt-like deposit in the arteries , impeding the passage of blood and increasing the pressure on the heart . |
| 24 | By and large , the cached IDE host adaptor made only a marginal difference to my benchmarks . |
| 25 | Unlike her major competitors , however , Germany lacked both a well-developed economic hinterland for agricultural and commercial support , and helpful overseas colonies . |
| 26 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |
| 27 | IBM Corp is to supply the Norwegian government 's Supercomputing Committee with two RS/6000 PowerServer 980s and 12 Model 580 workstations linked as a cluster : hosted by the University of Oslo , the installation kicks off a three-year joint venture project between IBM and Norway 's supercomputing centre . |
| 28 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 29 | In 1984 the Anglian Water Authority applied for permission to carry out a land-drainage scheme on the Stour between Stratford St Mary and Flatford Mill , with the purpose of converting the riverside pasture to oil-seed rape . |
| 30 | It also feared that a coalition with the anti-fascist forces might create similar problems to those which the Labour government of 1929–3 I faced when relying upon Liberal support to carry out a legislative programme . |