Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on the other there were the usual fears that the United States might overreact or give too high a priority to the Far East at the expense of Europe . |
| 2 | As a relatively small number of library authorities carry out a high amount of training , so a small number of libraries spend a high proportion of the money budgeted : 19 libraries accounted for 55% of this money , although employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 3 | Credit for its success is due to Lord Craigton , chairman of the All-Party Conservation Committee that meets about once a month in the House of Lords . |
| 4 | Well the City in fact has twenty one Community Centres , most of which have bars , some of them only have small bars that open maybe once a week , others have very large bars , and especially the ones with the larger bars I think are willing to take on such a project . |
| 5 | There would be a frantic dive for the wash-basins as soon as the show finished , as most theatres still only had one basin in dressing-rooms that held well over a dozen Girls . |
| 6 | Old Mel returned to her corner and became once more a shapeless dark bundle . |
| 7 | She decided therefore that The Sun was never again to be offered ‘ Laura Ashley ’ publicity material and reinforced as tight a hold as possible on the Image . |
| 8 | The state railways pay a user charge to the track authority , which is broadly equivalent to the charges faced by road users and covers only about a third of total infrastructure costs . |
| 9 | Packed away on dusty dark shelves weights and measures used by council trading standards officers , miniature fairground memorabilia made by a keen amateur craftsman from Oxford , and discovered only yesterday a crescent shaped match box . |
| 10 | Erm but I put the company into liquidation at that point , because of the problems we were all having in industry , and started again about a year , two years ago . |
| 11 | And when she was overcome with remorse and apologized so sweetly a few minutes later his admiration for her was boundless . |
| 12 | And here he is , ‘ duckering ’ his guv'nors and betters as only a plain-straight-talking Bristolian working man , with , erm , a huge sound system and a record deal , can . |
| 13 | In the early years of married life , a couple may try and establish as wide a social network as possible and , then , in later life if they feel that it is sufficient , they may ask relatives to be godparents , thus reaffirming existing kinship ties , rather than extending the network further . |
| 14 | The ORTF had become too big to be effectively controlled politically by the Information Minister or effectively managed by DGs ( three between 1958 and 1964 ) ; the latter , whether top civil servants , ‘ conseillers d'etat ’ or not , were not broadcasting professionals and had too short a ‘ run ’ to master the vast and complex , heavily unionized and bureaucratic juggernaut that the ORTF had become . |
| 15 | Despite the support of parents , of fellow teachers , of priests and even of two hon. Members , one from each side of the House , that teacher was refused a hearing before the school governors and had too short a period of service to seek the support of an industrial tribunal . |
| 16 | A school that loses sight of its values runs the risk that it ceases to be a school at all , and becomes instead just a learning centre , the sort of educational service station that the sub-text of the 1988 Act seems to envisage . |
| 17 | Not counting the number of times she put her fat face round the door & said , nodding and smiling as only a Frenchwoman can , with an air of delighted gaiety ( ! ) |
| 18 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |
| 19 | Old shrub roses , particularly centifolias , enjoy clay , but flower only once a season . |
| 20 | Horak forged ahead on his own but set too fast a pace and died at Elmbridge . |
| 21 | From St. Peter 's he went to Selby in 1836 , but stayed there only a year before returning as incumbent of Chadkirk Chapel in Romiley , where he served until his death in 1862 . |
| 22 | When his father died in 1933 Dawson inherited the family property in Yorkshire and went to live at Hartlington Hall , but stayed there only a few years because of his frail health . |
| 23 | Nineteen of the 31 authorities who spent over £3,000 ( see Table 11 ) actually spent £5,000 or more , and it should be noted that this group of 19 library authorities accounted for 55% of the money directly allocated to training by our sample , while employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 24 | I think we 're the better all round team when playing well so a win is certainly not out of the question . |