Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know . |
| 2 | These were a valuable indicator , as they would only show up from a distance if you were ‘ on the line ’ . |
| 3 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 4 | Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance . |
| 5 | They need only look out at a sheep . |
| 6 | You can choose between matt , satin or gloss finishes for the degree of shine you want , and can then merely wipe down with a damp cloth to keep clean . |
| 7 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 8 | As Crick points out , however , the right idea can only fit in to a mind which is trained , and predisposed to accept that idea . |
| 9 | They consider that you can only move on from an unhappy experience if you have given it some meaning . |
| 10 | We might then only end up with a series of discrete micro-studies that could not be articulated . |
| 11 | Mm Oh that would be alright if we go yeah we can all go over for a nice little run out |
| 12 | Cos they wo n't all go up on a tree . |
| 13 | Individuals may be more content and morale may be high , but does this necessarily lead on to an improved performance ? |
| 14 | ‘ You could only get in with a pass if you were a member of the project . |
| 15 | Too often , noise has meant a level plane of abraded texture , which can merely add up to a different kind of blandness , a sense-dulling consistency . |
| 16 | Even the Commission , with all its enthusiasm for EMU , could only come up with a potential saving of between 0.1% and 0.5% of the Community 's GDP , and even this did not take into account new costs of changing the ecu into other , non-EC currencies . |
| 17 | But remember , sugar does not only come out of a packet . |
| 18 | Only when this phantasy is well on the way to realization as a practical mode of government does the citizen begin to notice that the state 's omnipresence means the total bureaucratization and control of life , that its omniscience dictates the need for total state surveillance , and that its omnipotence can only come about as a consequence of the total impotence of its subjects . |
| 19 | This can only be done by having a transformed imagination , something that can only come about through a ‘ revelation ’ . |
| 20 | The reduction in the real wage rate which was a necessary concomitant of a rise in unemployment could only come about through an expansion of aggregate demand . |
| 21 | This , he feels , can only come about by a return to the basic function of inspection . |
| 22 | Erm we 'd better get on to a few other things . |
| 23 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 24 | I 'd sooner wind up in a debtors ’ prison ! ’ |
| 25 | But it has to be something good , or it will just fizzle out like a damp squib and you 'll feel worse than ever . ’ |
| 26 | It would just fall off like a dust . |
| 27 | We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some |
| 28 | ‘ You did n't exactly carry on like a pacifist yourself , ’ she retorted evasively , mouth reproachful . |
| 29 | But , in fact , virtually no behavioural tendency which constitutes genuine action can just show up in a cultural context ‘ as itself ’ . |
| 30 | TEESSIDE Polytechnic student Jonathan Welfare could soon clean up with an idea to rid the danger which dogs our footsteps . |