Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 2 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 3 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 4 | The classic experiment requires both a control and an experimental group to which subjects are randomly allocated . |
| 5 | Yeah that football sounds quite a good idea |
| 6 | That vote condemned over a million workers to poverty pay . |
| 7 | What he thereby misses is that post-modernism represents simply a new façade or twist to architectural style as ideology discussed earlier . |
| 8 | One point to remember , incidentally , is that in those days all recordings were played at 78 rpm , so each side ran only a few minutes . |
| 9 | Each was also equipped with a Very pistol and two flares , one green one red , a torch with the glass masked by sticky tape to leave only a pencil-thin beam , and a radio transmitter tuned to a master receiver in Springfield 's car . |
| 10 | Fenway fans have simply grown resigned to seeing fine teams commit one horrendous play to throw away a crucial championship game as good as won . |
| 11 | For the most part this paradigm allows only a study of non-verbal social behaviour . |
| 12 | This case merited only a six-inch column in one newspaper , but probably failed to get widespread coverage on several grounds : the case was held outside London ( in Manchester ) and the case was not contested . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | well when did it take place ? this decision to update once a year |
| 15 | The techniques of display , enhancement , filtering and transformation of remotely-sensed images that have been described in this chapter represent only a selection of those available . |
| 16 | Did he imagine it , or did that shapely but rigid mouth tremble just a little ? |
| 17 | Miss Jennifer Honey was a mild and quiet person who never raised her voice and was seldom seen to describe , but I shall make some attempt to do so a little later on . |
| 18 | This album gathers together a cutting edge slice of Detroit ‘ 92 and — if it gets the right profile — could have the same seismic effect as Virgin 's ‘ Techno ’ collection did in the late '80s . |
| 19 | This outlay represents around a fifth of what it would cost to dispose of the waste locally . |
| 20 | According to Bob Rae , general manager quality developments : ‘ The strength of the company 's approach to potential clients has been our clear plan to implement both a quality assurance system and a total quality management ( TQM ) culture . ’ |
| 21 | An old lady owned about a third of an acre of waste land , with a ten-foot wide gully across it . |
| 22 | It was Pybus who had the brilliant idea of putting the thing out to tender and , despite my warnings , thought that no one could match the school 's price of 158 banana chews , free strawberry milkshakes once a week during the season and a promise from Mike Channon that he would play the Virgin Mary in the school nativity play . |
| 23 | In one instance , a young pilot started a launch with another glider standing only a few yards to the side and just ahead of the take-off point . |
| 24 | The extraordinary decadent sensuality of the books and their moral and sexual elusiveness seem nowadays a particularly unpleasing example of social hypocrisy . |
| 25 | Whilst the automation of this process remains only a distant possibility , it must be conceded that none of these techniques is directly usable as described . |
| 26 | Even if it were true that all of consciousness and only that fell under statements of the three kinds , or related kinds , we would by means of this truth get only a wholly uninformative conception of consciousness . |
| 27 | This shift requires crucially a lowering of labour-costs and restructuring of the labour market . |
| 28 | They were usually a long way from the London merchants who set up as gentry , but this group represented nonetheless a significant local urban aristocracy . |
| 29 | Thus , in the top tenth of pensioner income groups , social security contributes only a quarter of gross income . |
| 30 | A 7:1 ratio gives both a pleasing shape and sufficient depth to be useful as a fruit bowl . |