Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Under section 40(4) ( a ) a review can be postponed if it is net practicable to carry out a review at that time .
2 Eight owned only a morning Paper ( such as the Liverpool Daily Post ) and a ninth , Outram 's , owned two in the same town ( Glasgow ) .
3 As the National Curriculum is implemented , it will be possible to carry out a check of the curriculum of each school .
4 It is also possible to carry out a search by highlighting a word in your original work , cut and paste sections of the Thesaurus into your document and load the program into a DOS Window in 386 enhanced mode for use with Windows .
5 It may be impractical to carry out a stocktake or inspect the plant and machinery ( particularly if the Vendor wishes to keep the transaction confidential from the work force ) .
6 Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained .
7 Of course it 's only a rummage-search , but as far as we 've gone , there 's nothing in that boat at all that has n't a right to be there . ’
8 From this it is possible to work out a recipe for some common ailments .
9 This restates the previous position at common law , that a person who holds himself out as being prepared to carry out a service is expected to exercise a level of skill that could be expected of a reasonably competent member of the relevant trade .
10 It is interesting to see how a law has so rapidly effected a dramatic and important change in people 's behaviour concerning safety while travelling where even aggressive publicity campaigns apparently failed to make the necessary impact .
11 It was good fun though , and interesting to see how a programme is made .
12 But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that .
13 Parents have ( or should have ) authority over their children and this constitutes both a responsibility and a burden .
14 This goes down a lot better .
15 This goes back a generation , to when Maltese marriage customs were very strictly observed .
16 It is therefore impracticable to carry out a trial of a single homoeopathic remedy versus a single orthodox drug or placebo , although this approach has been tried .
17 2 Make up a table like the one shown .
18 This statement paved the way for and was indeed reiterated in Roberts in which the Court of Appeal held that consent had on the facts been terminated where there was a formal deed of separation , even though this lacked both a non-cohabitation and a non-molestation clause .
19 This represents perhaps a quarter of the true figure .
20 But you can not expect another to carry out a task if he or she is constantly being observed by someone else .
21 It 's not enough any more to have comfortable boots and something waterproof to slip over a jumper .
22 So you know to check it and go back and do it differently and it 's the same with this moved up a level now , that you you keep in keep in charge of it .
23 SuperCalc 5.5 represents an important move towards a graphical user interface and this is very good news for every SuperCalc user who likes using a mouse — or who is prepared to try out a mouse for the extra shortcuts that make SuperCalc 5.5 easier to use than its predecessors .
24 But when the volume was first published it appeared only as an expensive hardback and the opportunity for exploring an important range of writing was restricted to specialists and students willing to pass around a library copy .
25 Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage .
26 It 's easier to guess why a reduction in market share is taking place than obtain the basic facts and make improvements .
27 In 1781 the French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a catalogue of them , containing over a hundred entries , not because he was interested in them ( quite the contrary ! ) but because he was a comet-hunter , and he was persistently misled by fuzzy objects which looked like comets but which were not .
28 This seemed clearly a case of the patient needing the medicine more frequently so I suggested she take it at least 4 times daily .
29 ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said .
30 At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time .
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