Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the age of 3 years most children can voluntarily initiate emptying a full bladder and later a partly full bladder . |
| 2 | We have written very carefully descriptive material of what is really happening in the experiment and then a very succinct set of instructions — do this , do that , turn the left hand knob . |
| 3 | Not all information will be regarded as of equal weight and therefore a truly total assessment is unattainable . |
| 4 | Dark and not a little satanic , its shuddering looms make a deafening noise and the air hangs thick with a sick-making stench like rotting chicken feathers . |
| 5 | ‘ With regard to future developments , I feel there is a need for some more training in new technology , particularly in the field of computers and perhaps a more systematic approach to training ’ … |
| 6 | One-time England star Lee , a member of City 's 1968 title-winning side and now a highly successful businessman , insists he is not planning a takeover of the Blues . |
| 7 | A pull out left gains easy rock and just a little higher there is a perfect eagle 's eyrie of a stance , with good belays in a well pegged horizontal crack . |
| 8 | A second and probably a more significant aspect of decentralisation is where a certain measure of local autonomy or local initiative is encouraged by central authorities . |
| 9 | The arguments for treating disturbed , delinquent and deprived children alike are based on the assumption that the child is the product of his or her home and not a totally separate responsible individual . |
| 10 | In the universe of doxa of primitive societies there is ‘ full correspondence of ( such ) mental structures ’ to doxa and thus a relatively undifferentiated habitus . |
| 11 | Tom Jones , one of his most intimate associates and normally a very shrewd observer , at first thought him very slow . |
| 12 | Malinowski was a prolific writer and also a uniquely gifted teacher , training , largely by the socratic method , a whole generation of brilliant disciples ; true to their master in their fashion they have created modern social anthropology with cross-fertilization from Radcliffe-Brown . |
| 13 | I look forward to your advice in due course and hopefully a more colourful life . |
| 14 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 15 | On 11 November 1938 ( the twentieth anniversary of Armistice Day and therefore a very sensitive date on the German calendar ) the Poles released a set of 15 groszy stamps . |
| 16 | This criterion was introduced for the benefit of an authority like Kirklees which runs the large institution of Huddersfield Polytechnic but which has a limited population and therefore a relatively small rate basis . |
| 17 | One of the popular books at the very outbreak of war captured the mood , Mrs Miniver ( 1939 ) ; an American best seller and subsequently a most successful film , it is said that it hastened America 's entry into the war . |
| 18 | What they all have in common is slow , moist cooking , strong flavours and usually a slightly sweet and sour note to the sauce . |
| 19 | Emily thought ruefully of the sumptuous meals she used to eat at Summer Lodge , the tempting courses of meat and fish and then a carefully concocted pudding that melted in the mouth . |
| 20 | ‘ If the Certificate of Primary Education tested material which was firmly within the grasp of primary school teachers : if it tested the ability to re–son and understand relationships of cause and effect ; and , if , above all , it tested relevant and practical knowledge , it would be at the same time both a more efficient and equitable instrument for selecting secondary school entrants and also a more useful preparation for those for whom primary education is terminal . |
| 21 | A special event can add excitement , like the jolly festivity of the Last Night of the Proms , or a concert with a world-class soloist , like Placido Domingo , which an attender praises as ‘ much more a social occasion and not a purely listening one ’ . |
| 22 | These are all in full colour and have a high photographic content offering holiday course students a most sophisticated and attractive choice of material they will not have used before — the major worry for holiday course organisers and thus a correspondingly major selling point for booksellers and publishers . |
| 23 | It is evident from this that the contractors were responsible for many of the details and not a little of the basic design . |
| 24 | A fine game and also a very vital result for Abingdon Town . |
| 25 | There were undoubted gains for middle-class women in the nineteenth century , from a controlled access to divorce ( though one which sustained a double standard ) , the possibility of custody of children in the case of broken marriages , new rights in property and so on , and , no doubt many middle-class women , far from being ‘ redundant ’ , often participated in the major household decisions , supervised the servants , and increasingly gained access to birth control and hence a possibly less inhibited sexual pleasure . |
| 26 | First , the new approach may make the teacher aware of some lack of understanding of X — the originator of the innovation may well have a more comprehensive understanding of the topic and possibly a more detailed map of children 's paths towards it but neither is in fact essential for the promotion of the feeling of insecurity in the teacher . |
| 27 | These result in increases in entropy and thus a more negative value for G. Notice also that the free energy of formation of silver oxide is negative at lower temperatures but becomes positive as the temperature increases . |
| 28 | I was particularly impressed by their Spirulina Flake Food which my Yellow Tangs ( Zebrasoma flavescens ) love , and is a valuable addition to dry foods formulated for herbivorous species and also a particularly high-protein Brine shrimp flake which all of my fish enjoy . |
| 29 | Quality would deteriorate and people would have less choice and therefore a less good service . |
| 30 | Four years later he has written Yul 's biography , which is partly a show biz life and partly a much sharper settling of accounts between father and son . |