Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A majority of the United Kingdom workforce decided against strike action and the mood of the Glasgow workers was so clear yesterday that a vote did not have to be taken . |
| 2 | Why this socialist commonwealth should be less integrated economically than a Europe of free capitalist states is worth pondering . |
| 3 | Consider embedding the names of programmers or the company name within the program code ; this can be extremely useful evidentially if a software pirate denies copying . |
| 4 | Thus it is highly unlikely either that a course will be designed that is universally acclaimed as the definitive model for all courses or that any one teacher will find the perfect course that suits the needs of his students , his own personality and his own approach to language teaching , but he can change or adapt it as he sees fit . |
| 5 | Landau pointed out that there was another possible final state for a star , also with a limiting mass of about one or two times the mass of the sun but much smaller even than a white dwarf . |
| 6 | ‘ Music seems to be getting more expressive now and a bit more rocky . |
| 7 | The heavy rain had subsided during the morning , but the pavements were still wet underfoot and a fine haze of moisture hung on the wintry air . |
| 8 | Such matters are to a great extent determined conventionally by syntax , and become noticeably expressive only when a writer makes a graphological choice which is to some degree marked or unconventional , such as a deliberate misspelling . |
| 9 | It is said by some to be more tiring physically than a paid job , by others to be less tiring : some women say it takes a greater emotional toll , others that the drain is less than other work . |
| 10 | Robert Owen is still influential today and a newly-restored New Lanark is now a shrine for Japanese businessmen eager to explore his system of benign authoritarian socialism . |
| 11 | However , self-build schemes are really possible only where a number of energetic persons , usually young , coincide . |
| 12 | That must have been about eight o'clock or a little earlier . |
| 13 | ‘ generally speaking a prosecutor has as much right as a defendant to demand a verdict of a jury on an outstanding indictment , and where either demands a verdict a judge has no jurisdiction to stand in the way of it . |
| 14 | However , we remind ourselves of the principles outlined earlier in this judgment and the observation of Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest in Connelly v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1964 ] A.C. 1254 , 1304 , that ‘ generally speaking a prosecutor has as much right as a defendant to demand a verdict of a jury on an outstanding indictment , and where either demands a verdict a judge has no jurisdiction to stand in the way of it . ’ |
| 15 | Hon. Members from Scottish constituencies have as much right as an hon. Member from an English constituency to raise a question on defence or any other matter — And they do . |
| 16 | Compared with the prolonged torment and mutilations of life on the ground , the knowledge that a pilot 's expectancy of survival was far poorer even than a machine-gunner 's could not detract from the infantryman 's envy ; even though death commonly meant being burned alive , at least it was quick , clean — and witnessed by thousands . |
| 17 | Casualties on the Afghan side were far greater more than a million people were killed in the country as a whole , with the government party and forces sustaining about 70,000 of these losses . |
| 18 | However , whether or not it does so is a matter of construction , and it seems equally clear both that a court will be unwilling to interpret a clause as applying to such breaches and that , in the event of a dispute , the party challenging an exclusion clause can be expected to raise the argument that the breach is fundamental and not covered by the exclusion . |
| 19 | It is quite likely therefore that a meeting of Lambarde and Shakespeare took place at this time , although it was n't until 1594 that Shakespeare made his mark , for it was at Christmas of that year that he was Summoned to appear at Court . |
| 20 | At San Antonio , soil analyses point to Maya cultivators being active there around 670 BC or a little earlier . |
| 21 | there two there and a little bit there . |
| 22 | This can be financially successful particularly if a parent or friend can persuade a printer to run them off in colour at a discount . |
| 23 | Recent knowledge concerning the disease 's diagnosis and treatment , and its redefinition as a primarily civilian rather than a military problem , made the regulationist strategy impracticable . |
| 24 | Many common locutions are semantically well-formed only if an appropriate semantic relation holds between certain of their lexical constituents . |
| 25 | Chiaro , inevitably , finds herself distinguishing " dirty " jokes from " Irish " ; " political " jokes from " sick " ; and it would be very interesting indeed if a book could be written from a more socio-cultural perspective on such topics as subject , teller and listener . |
| 26 | Understanding of the basic pathomechanisms in duodenal ulcer has been hampered by the absence of an experimental model that is truly chronic rather than an acute ulcer in which healing is delayed . |
| 27 | To those of us who watch the game the fare on offering nowadays is very limited indeed and a cause of some disappointment and annoyance to many of us . |
| 28 | I mean I would n't ever think it a good idea to encourage women to leave the home if they thought that their job was in there looking after small children , but it 's very obvious nowadays that a very large number of women do n't want to in the home any more . |
| 29 | Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle . |
| 30 | They 're in a hall playing badminton or something so too far away and a lot of shouting and laughing all at once . |