Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'M SORRY I HAVE N'T A CLUE |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm afraid I know rather a lot of people who wanted to kill Mr Phipps . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have n't a clue , ’ said Robert . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid I have n't a spare copy to forward to you even on a loan basis , one never allows for the contingencies which arise . |
| 5 | At the moment you do I take it you 're recording people who sort of ring up say I 'm interested you send out a package to them you record them |
| 6 | On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together . |
| 7 | Now , we do n't know how long the interview went on , it 's quite likely we have only a snippet of the conversation . |
| 8 | And remember , make sure you take home a copy for the young environmentalists in your family . |
| 9 | Make sure you know how a piece of jewellery is intended to be worn . |
| 10 | Before dinner we 'll all go for a brisk walk along the beach and make sure we work up a nice big appetite . ’ |
| 11 | Both the development of the welfare state and the emergence of fascism or , more generally , of totalitarian regimes , are undoubtedly major political changes , which can be defined , in the light of this twentieth century experience , but also taking into account other historical transformations , as those which bring about a significant reorganization of the apparatus of government , a change in the relations between government and people , and to a considerable extent , a restructuring of other social relationships , including modifications in the hierarchical ordering of various social groups . |
| 12 | Between the forms which accommodate features diagnostic of an individual workshop and those which show only a structural similarity to other mosaics in the region , a picture of the developments of patterns in the wider context of south-western England emerges . |
| 13 | The best questions to ask in a survey are those which require only a single word/phrase or a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ answer . |
| 14 | For example , we know that for those leaving care , a stable home contributes to their viability in the community , yet the factors contributing to survival skills are quite different from those which determine where a client goes to live , even though either can produce the same outcome of homelessness . |
| 15 | They called the group the Kolbitar ( coal-biters ) , an Icelandic kenning which means those who sit around a fire . |
| 16 | Sjahrir and his colleague Amir Sjarifuddin were designated formateurs ; in Dutch constitutional terms , those who put together a new government . |
| 17 | This is due to the fact that if there is no insider dealing ‘ those who transact only a few moments apart may get very different prices and will view the market as performing unfairly ’ . |
| 18 | A recent survey by the bank has discovered that people who have experience of unemployment before becoming self-employed tend to do better than those who give up a job to do so . |
| 19 | Low status of carers Those who give up a job or take early retirement to become a carer lose out financially , and in other ways , as has been well documented ( Finch and Groves , 1983 ) . |
| 20 | In addition , wider family loyalties are intense , extending even to those who share only a very remote common ancestor . |
| 21 | A deep black dado below the white walls surrounds the room in order to provide an enhanced sense of perspective to those who see only a blur and have to find their way using very little visual data . |
| 22 | As you read you will probably be aware of a character 's potential as a role for the actor — particularly with those who have already an established place in theatrical tradition ( Dickens is full of such characters ) . |
| 23 | Voters with above the minimum of education are more likely than those who have only a minimum of education to vote Conservative . |
| 24 | On the other hand , there are those who have only an imperfect formal competence in a language but who by a combination of guesswork and intuition can somehow make contact with the aesthetic qualities of a foreign poem . |
| 25 | In Chapter 6 we set out a dual-route model of reading aloud , distinguishing between a lexical procedure and a non-lexical procedure for converting print to speech . |
| 26 | Lit up in their various colours against a white wall they can look spectacular ; unlit they take on an almost sculptural quality . |
| 27 | First you get together a batch of questions to be answered which supposedly measure intelligence or knowledge of some particular subject . |