Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Projects rarely develop in a totally predictable fashion and thus require close and detailed control both during the implementation phase and after they are fully operational . |
| 2 | In what was widely regarded as a politically motivated action Kitangan was arrested in January 1991 and charged with corruption . |
| 3 | As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters . |
| 4 | Such ambivalence often figures within transgressive reinscription , and is one reason why it rarely approximates to a straightforwardly ‘ correct ’ political attitude . |
| 5 | Such bids are regularly submitted but only account for a very small amount of stock allotted . |
| 6 | It had to look ordinary enough to appeal to a much broader market than the CX , but quirky enough to attract 15 years ' worth of loyal CX owners . |
| 7 | This fine-grained limestone is only developed over a very small area , usually thought of as a lagoonal deposit behind sponge reefs , though recently interpreted as deposits in offshore sediment traps . |
| 8 | At the other end of the scale , romantic interest would only exist at a very superficial level , and certainly there would be no question of relationships forming between the TARDIS incumbents . |
| 9 | Still , the taboos have been the source of much mirth : the stand-up 's traditional reliance on smut and mothers-in-law could only exist in a largely sex-negative society . |
| 10 | It is merely intended as a very easy-to-fit deterrent which a car owner may use in place of an alarm or , as in the author 's car , the unit can complement an existing security system which previously had no visual deterrent . |
| 11 | This brochure is only intended as a very brief introduction to Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley . |
| 12 | But she had only checked in a very recent volume . |
| 13 | At the other end of all this research is the sick child , whose life has suddenly altered in a most dramatic way . |
| 14 | His voice suddenly dropped to a more intimate key . |
| 15 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 16 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 17 | Wee Jocky was apparently steaming after a particularly hospitable Hogmanay and played a blinder . |
| 18 | A young girl who haunts the Feathers Hotel , a one time serving wench , and only seen by a very few . |
| 19 | He paused in his writing only to listen to a rather attractive Finnish poetess reading a sequence about her marital problems . |
| 20 | With glass , for instance , the molecular structure is only disturbed to a comparatively shallow depth below the fracture surface and W is generally around 6 J/m 2 — in other words about six times G — and so , although lg , the critical crack length , is six times as high as it otherwise would be , it is still very short and glass is a brittle material . |
| 21 | However , re-use of interface details will not necessarily result in a substantially similar expression and , in the example in Figure 3 , the expression ( program listings and structure ) may be quite different . |
| 22 | For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 . |
| 23 | That was rightly seen as a ludicrously intransigent position . |
| 24 | He comes from Dusseldorf , where he studied at the famous Academy with Gerhard Richter , and shows large landscape paintings in which the natural is disturbed by human interventions , all seen from a rather high vantage point . |
| 25 | ( Howell , in this volume , describes a similarly non-violent orientation among the closely related Chewong , but one apparently built on a much less fearful world view . ) |
| 26 | The users of social services would greatly benefit from a much greater use of research — for decades this point has been made in reports , in meetings , and within research itself . |
| 27 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 28 | What we were criticized and several senior councillors quite rightly said , the five thousand pound we were spending was only going to a very few . |
| 29 | The sixteen-mile detour around Loch Leven was much preferred to a long wait at the ferry , and the journey was made palatable by the excellence of the scenery and the opportunity of shopping or refreshment . |
| 30 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |