Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The [ draft ] FRS requires such instruments to be accounted for wholly as a liability . |
| 2 | In a couple of years-sooner if a child is born — I 'll be forgiven and Anna will be taken into the family . |
| 3 | of like cos a maisonette 's got an upstairs has n't it , and his |
| 4 | But when I was there there were once one instant is er er the man on watch in the morning he spotted a floating mine come in right down to close to the rock and er er it anchored just about er er a quarter of a mile or maybe two hundred yards off the rock off the tower and er of well when a mine anchors of course it becomes er alive . |
| 5 | The black tip of that arrow was scarlet with blood , but I reckoned it had n't gone in further than a rib or my spine . |
| 6 | The idea is that articulate language is a barrier to rather than a medium of communication and that if only this barrier could be removed , human beings would revert to a golden age of wordless , heartfelt communication . |
| 7 | Can the combination of both inward and outward investment be made complementary to rather than a substitute for domestic investment ? |
| 8 | Education must be an adjunct to rather than a substitute for psychotherapy , but it is worthwhile if it does no more than alert the patient to the dangers of behaviours such as laxative misuse . |
| 9 | All this suggests that the allowance system was a response to rather than a cause of the relief burden . |
| 10 | And er just sort of work it out on here cos a lot 'll cancel . |
| 11 | To operate in the PC environment you may additionally need a windowing environment like GEM or Microsoft Windows , an EGA or Hercules card and matching screen , a mouse and , in some instances , an AT rather than a PC . |
| 12 | Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made . |
| 13 | The first took place at 4.50pm when a car and motorbike collided . |
| 14 | A thorough home safety check at least once a year is a good idea . |
| 15 | At least where a right to trial by jury exists , the courts are reluctant ( in cases where national security is not involved ) to allow the Attorney-General to side-step it by approaching the High Court for an injunction to stop the publication or for a declaration that the publication is unlawful : The Voluntary Euthanasia Society published a booklet entitled " A Guide to Self-Deliverance " which discussed the pros and cons of committing suicide and described in detail a number of efficacious methods for so doing . |
| 16 | At least when a guest is misbehaving they 're where we expect them to be . |
| 17 | The Bar requests that the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice consider the whole issue of the funding of legal aid defence work and urges the Lord Chancellor not to introduce standard fees for magistrates ' courts work at least until a report of the Royal Commission has been received and considered . |
| 18 | Most processes require AVAIL , but if you wish to prevent inadvertent use of a process , setting UNAVAIL in the configuration file will ensure that no action requests will be accepted by the process , at least until a LIFESPAN user with MANAGER privilege has used Option 7.5.0 to set Facilities Available . |
| 19 | At least if a film does come , we 'll see that , if the cameras come in anywhere , we 'll see that all-party representation on it . |
| 20 | At least if a woman goes out to work she can escape that — her mind is occupied , she does not long so much for her home in Pakistan . |
| 21 | At least if a guy from a local station gets a prominent network job , it reflects well on that station . ’ |
| 22 | They must know by now whether a relief force was coming near . |