Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A place is private and this offence can not be committed where only a minority group of the public are admitted . |
| 2 | It 's a question of not being discouraged and persevering until suddenly a drawing looks like you hope , of seeing the possibility in something , in a line , and thinking ‘ Oh quick , I must n't change that . |
| 3 | Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time . |
| 4 | ‘ Lieutenant Denholm is miscast as either a classicist or electronics officer . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a very expensive clear-out and must have come as quite a shock when the penny dropped . |
| 6 | It had come as quite a surprise to discover he was charming , very generous , and enormous fun to be with . |
| 7 | It supports conventional , XMS and EMS memory for its buffers and can be installed as either a device driver or TSR program . |
| 8 | Although this area of research is beyond my technical competence , I am assured by experts in neo-Walrasian economics that very strong apriori restrictions need to be imposed before even a glimmer of a general market clearing solution can be discerned . |
| 9 | Rather it is presented as simply a mirror image of the subjectivist principle of mens rea . |
| 10 | In most analytical methods , biologically derived reagents ( enzymes , antibodies ) are exploited as simply a specialist , and rather labile , form of chemical reagent . |
| 11 | They soon learned not to talk when just a look would do , and even when separated , each seemed to know instinctively when the other was in trouble . |
| 12 | This , the first word Mungo had ever heard him utter , other than the mysterious ‘ lymenner ’ , came as rather a shock , as though a pillar-box had suddenly spoken . |
| 13 | ‘ It came as quite a surprise ’ , said one . |
| 14 | The body is made from a single piece of mahogany , which came as quite a surprise , because at a casual glance you 'd think it was ash . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 16 | It came as quite a shock to enter the brightly-lit building . |
| 17 | I can promise you that the total came as quite a shock to me , I was convinced it would be well in excess of my budget . |
| 18 | Still , relegation came as quite a shock to the system . |
| 19 | But fortunately most people who are asked to help in surveys are prepared to accept that they are appropriate people to answer questions on the survey for which they are approached , and particularly where people feel that they are being asked to give ‘ expert ’ information this can be seen as rather a compliment : ‘ If you want to know about how a housewife organizes her day I can tell you everything you need to know . ’ |
| 20 | Aethelred 's initial acts on becoming king should perhaps be seen as primarily a securing of Mercian border territories . |
| 21 | Voluntary work was no longer seen as either a stepping stone to bigger and better things or as a part of a women ‘ s mission , but rather as the exclusive province of married women . |
| 22 | The former proposal could be seen as just a way of improving the quality of decision-making by the High Court when hearing judicial review applications . |
| 23 | In structuralist accounts the state is seen as essentially a factor of cohesion in society , which functions to organize the dominant class and to disorganize the subordinate classes through the use of either repressive or ideological apparatuses ( Althusser , 1969 ) . |
| 24 | In traditional medicine , health is seen as essentially a matter of maintaining a balance within an individual as well as between the individual , the community and the environment . |
| 25 | Purchasing ought not to be seen as mainly a question of routine paperwork . |
| 26 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 27 | We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs . |
| 28 | Participating and enjoying disability arts could then be seen as only a side-show in the drama of struggle for change , something to provide relief from the tensions of boring or stressful committee meetings . |
| 29 | The site is first mentioned in the Domesday Survey as a corn mill but , by the end of the 17th century , it was operated as both a corn and fulling mill . |
| 30 | The site is recorded during the 16th century as being occupied by ‘ Sury ’ or ‘ Shewry ’ Mills , which at the time was operated as both a corn and two fulling mills . |