Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became eventually a conscientious objector . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ Fritz went red , which , Erika thought , made rather a nice change from her own blushing , and looked at his shoes . |
| 3 | Aunt Janice was clothed ( shirt and jeans ) , which made rather a refreshing change , and standing in the hallway . |
| 4 | But subsequent inquiries revealed rather a different story . |
| 5 | I think we have given rather a gloomy vision of what being a parent is |
| 6 | ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity . |
| 7 | But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’ |
| 8 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 9 | In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity . |
| 10 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 11 | Therefore , I would see from a public point of view a substantial expenditure on this subject and I do n't think necessarily a level cuts from county planners . |
| 12 | Equally , a significantly higher concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 in malignant ascites confirms previous work , but as it is a weaker inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator and is present in much lower concentrations than plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , it probably plays only a small part in the overall inhibition of fibrinolytic activity . |
| 13 | Thus an education department may be organised on an area basis so that the centre plays only a co-ordinating role . |
| 14 | Mike Roberts and colleagues at the CEGB 's research laboratories now think that air pollution plays only a minor role after all ( Forestry , vol 62 , pp 179-222 ) . |
| 15 | BSL therefore stores story information and re-tells it in a way which would occur for all languages , but spoken language surface structure ( reflecting only a specific point in time and context ) would tend to hide this in its effort for reconstruction of meaning . |
| 16 | In this new lab of his he can knock together a human being out of the unlikeliest odds and ends . |
| 17 | Initially , most contracts are likely to include only a broad specification of the service being purchased . |
| 18 | THE 101st anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh on May 19th got only a muted celebration in Hanoi . |
| 19 | ‘ Once , Ndah was clean through and he was blatantly brought down by Mike Marsh , who got only a yellow card . |
| 20 | The analysis so far constitutes only a partial account of science . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And Jung 's phrase ‘ something in us ’ implies that the wish constitutes only a small element in the psyche — one that is not difficult for a sensible , mature person to reject , once she/he has recognised how unrealistic it is . |
| 23 | Frequently , the analytical courses are cut out in joint schemes , and the students gain only a superficial introduction to both subjects . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 25 | We have discussed how the requirement for external confidentiality will limit the approach to potential purchasers and the consequential sale strategy which will involve contacting only a small number of potential purchasers , most of which are likely to be foreign companies . |
| 26 | Two or three numbers might be required as input to a calculation lasting several hours , impossible to accomplish except by computer and producing only a small volume of output . |
| 27 | They 'd taken no notice of Thérèse reporting that the Bishop expected only a simple meal . |
| 28 | It was typical of his thorough approach that after Arsenal won 7–1 at Wolverhampton , he spent nearly two hours at the team talk analysing what led up to Wolves ’ one goal , much to the dismay of the players , who expected only a brief meeting after such a handsome win . |
| 29 | Even when compared with the 1983 landslide victory , the Conservative share of the vote increased in the South East ( including Greater London ) , East Anglia , West Midlands and East Midlands , and registered only a marginal decline in the South West ( albeit with a share of the vote still in excess of 50 per cent ) . |
| 30 | Associated American Artists has gathered together a representative group of this work in a show called ‘ Rufino Tamayo — seventeen years at the Mixografia workshop ’ . |