Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , self-build schemes are really possible only where a number of energetic persons , usually young , coincide . |
| 2 | The appeal lies only where a point of law is involved . |
| 3 | She looked up suddenly where a shower of blossom swirled from the cherry-boughs . |
| 4 | For some , the fist was an alternative to the stick , especially where a conflict with a buck had taken on the form of a personal feud . |
| 5 | One might focus particular attention on stress points in the day , perhaps where a mismatch of perception between individuals or even outright conflict occurred . |
| 6 | For effectively open-circuit operation the resistance of the bias circuit has to be high enough or a choke of high enough reactance has to be connected in series with it . |
| 7 | Although bargaining is often very tough you 've always got a better chance if you know with whom you are dealing — it helps if you 've had the odd meal or drink together or a game of squash . |
| 8 | It would occupy a fairly modest 2U of rack space , larger perhaps than a couple of its contemporaries , but it has the advantage of a distinctly uncluttered look about it . |
| 9 | Its Report The future of development plans , published in 1965 , recommended changes , basically that a number of different types of plans should replace the development plan and the comprehensive development area plans . |
| 10 | On the wall to the right of the door was a small illuminated case with the label ‘ Appearing this week ’ , and below that a selection of coloured photographs was pinned to a board covered in cheap red plush . |
| 11 | Glitter answers questions banal enough that a child of six might be able to pose them , and then it 's into the show . |
| 12 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 13 | Much better than a line-out with them throwing-in on half-way . |
| 14 | A forty-year-old today looks a lot better than a forty-year-old of twenty years ago . ’ . |
| 15 | Indeed , the ILEA , precisely because its schools operate in such widely differing circumstances , has published a ‘ league table ’ of 16-plus examination results adjusted for intake factors , which shows that schools with a disadvantaged intake can do relatively better than a school with an advantaged intake . |
| 16 | Oh , that is kind — much better than a visit from me . |
| 17 | Better than a view of cardboard panes and the next-door privies . |
| 18 | There 's nothing they 'd like better than a drama like this just before the race , and do n't think Dara or her escort will have kept their mouths shut ! ’ |
| 19 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
| 20 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 21 | If we assume that this ratio is stable and repeat our earlier point that banks will normally be looking to expand their lending as a source of profit , then it follows fairly obviously that a change in the availability of base money to banks must be matched by a change in the size of the total balance sheet and that this latter change must be some multiple of the change in the size of the base . |
| 22 | The test would need to be constructed so that a range of marks is produced , for a narrow band of scores would not discriminate sufficiently to facilitate the allocation of pupils . |
| 23 | He paused , the butt of his cigar held against his brow , so that a cataract of white spume dribbled down into his eye socket . |
| 24 | Generally speaking the offshore profile is much more gentle , so that a fall in sea level of 30 m ( 100 ft ) , for example , will cause a displacement seaward of the shoreline to the extent of anything between a few hundred metres and perhaps 20 km ( 12 miles ) . |
| 25 | Then she took one step more towards me so that a bar of light fell across her face and I could see the angry expression on it . |
| 26 | He was , however , a preacher and a man of goodwill rather than a leader and man of action so that a change of leadership had become desirable when he retired . |
| 27 | the acceptable proposition that some shared morality is essential to the existence of any society , to the unacceptable proposition that a society is identical with its morality , as that is at any given moment of its history , so that a change in its morality is tantamount to the destruction of a society . |
| 28 | In componential analysis it is usually taken as an obvious primitive feature , so that a word like wife would have the feature [ -male ] . |
| 29 | The Conservative Education Association strongly urged the government to amend the legislation so that a majority of parents on the register would be required to vote for opting out . |
| 30 | That does not answer the burning problem of law-breaking on a Sunday , especially when the House has not been afforded the opportunity even to debate the matter in full so that a consensus of hon. Members can be taken . |