Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [be] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | How sad it is when a believer in his forties or fifties is merely an absentee landlord , living idly off the intellectual rent from the thinking of his student days ! |
| 2 | The slaying of Osred in 716 at the age of 19 or 20 was certainly an event of some significance for it broke the monopoly of royal power which the descendants of Aethelfrith had maintained since the accession of Oswald . |
| 3 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 4 | I heartily agree with him , and I suspect that that is really an argument in favour of federalism in due course — I would not necessarily be too frightened of taking that course . |
| 5 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , although this is clearly an important and interesting exhibition it is not one that we would wish to accommodate here , essentially because — practicalities aside — we are not a general art exhibition venue , and as a matter of policy only mount displays which relate to our collections or , more broadly , to the world of books . |
| 7 | Entertainment of company clients may take place at the property , although this is just an assumption . |
| 8 | Although this is largely an innate ability , particularly well developed in a few people , we can all develop sensitivity in general ( which will help our massage skills ) by such means as meditation , deep relaxation and nature attunements ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 9 | Forty-one per cent of the known opioid users were also known to have taken other types of drug , although this is probably an underestimate since some agencies do not routinely record or receive information about all drugs used by people on their files . |
| 10 | There are many , often very large areas , that are publicly owned and of great value to wildlife but these sites are not primarily managed for wildlife , although this is often an important consideration and some suffer considerable disturbance . |
| 11 | The first of these screens is a conversion chart showing catch length and weight , although this is only an approximation . |
| 12 | The difference between established senses and potential senses is not merely one of frequency of use , although this is undoubtedly an important component of the difference : established senses are presumably represented differently in the mind 's lexicon . |
| 13 | The average number of quarrels per hour was three to four , although this was probably an underestimation . |
| 14 | The received wisdom about reform came to be that ‘ research shows that nothing works ’ , that ‘ whatever you do to offenders makes no difference ’ , although this was always an exaggeration . |
| 15 | As much of his work makes clear ( see particularly Labov 1982b ) , the chief objective was not to describe relationships between speaker and linguistic variables , although this was certainly an interesting by-product of quantitative method which for some might comprise its main significance ; it is certainly of great practical interest to a number of professions ( see chapter 9 ) . |
| 16 | Bulmer concludes that this is probably an ‘ oversimplified view ’ ( p. 71 ) , focusing too strongly on the functional characteristics of the places and ignoring ( relatively , at least ) the nature of the local culture and its institutional structuring ( as , for example , with the nature and role of trades unions ) . |
| 17 | It is often said that this is just an example of Swiss discretion in business , but in my view we have begun to believe that works acquired abroad are somehow superior . |
| 18 | They stress , however , that this is just an overall industry average and that , as market share accounts for only about 14 per cent of the dispersion of ROI among businesses , other factors need to be considered . |
| 19 | For timing purposes it is best to assume a wait of half a revolution , bearing in mind that this is usually an overestimate . |
| 20 | In relation to the PIC situation , it was felt that this is now an appropriate time to review the overall outcome of the introduction of this package . |
| 21 | Is it not a fact that this is now an area of very important constitutional dispute , that my right hon. Friend accepted the advice of senior Treasury counsel , that two judges have spoken in his favour and two against , and that the House of Lords may find that he was right and they were wrong ? |
| 22 | While I accept that this is still an open question in the minds of many local farmers , I thought the article should have been more explicit about the scientific consensus on this point . |
| 23 | But it should be remembered that this is merely an early indication growth . |
| 24 | Whilst it may be argued that this is merely an illustration of the duty owed under the OLA 1957 , it may also be said that this exists as a form of liability under the tort of negligence but outside the scope of the 1957 Act . |
| 25 | I think the number of er er ex I think the fact that this is merely an exception a major exceptions policy that deals only with exceptional cases and the the Humberside structure plan refers to possibly once or twice over a planned period erm might er indicate it 's not intended to open to subvert section fifty four A. |
| 26 | Martin thinks that this was probably an oversight on my part and suggests that a simple s.p.s.t. toggle switch should be incorporated in the positive supply from the 9V battery . |
| 27 | Staff agreed that this was probably an area which needed improvement and discussion with parents . |
| 28 | Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks . |
| 29 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 30 | What shows that this was generally an unthinking answer , uninformed by any real understanding of interest rates , is that people were just as likely to give this answer whether they thought it would be a percentage of the amount they borrowed , a percentage per year , or even a percentage per month . |