Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the dream that we all had about Great Britain acknowledging it 's theatre and funding it properly has suffered a lot of setbacks since the ‘ sixties ’ . |
| 2 | If he only wants to use a part-pack , the operator pulls the lever to suck neat chemical into the transparent tube . |
| 3 | In this case , the agent only needs to see a ticket manifest ( a government-stamped document showing how many tickets are printed for the venue ) and a box office statement from the hall ( stating how many tickets were sold ) when checking the promoter 's expenses . |
| 4 | She only needs to make a token 1500 metres or 3,000 metres appearance in the main trials meeting , in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 , to claim her Olympic team place alongside world champion Liz McColgan . |
| 5 | And yet this awareness does not need to take any of our precious time ; it merely needs to become a part of what we are doing anyway . |
| 6 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 7 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 8 | Environmental Issues , which spotlights this and other surveys on page 11 , is well aware of young people 's interest in green matters and so has introduced a section specifically for them . |
| 9 | But the last week or so has provided a couple of classics , little exchanges that appear to have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with ego , bitterness and vendetta . |
| 10 | King Hussein of Jordan no less has beaten a path to Costa Teguise , selecting Lanzarote , a land of unusual beauty , for his get-away-from-it-all home . |
| 11 | It means the teacher only has to write a word once , in the teacher 's book , instead of thirty-plus times , once in each child 's book . |
| 12 | She only has to express a hint of yearning for a food , fad or fantasy for her fans to start racing after them too . |
| 13 | The critic necessarily has to take a manifesto into account . |
| 14 | It only says pay a pound a week , I pay three pounds some week . |
| 15 | He did n't do badly in F. Ford , but F3 beckoned soon enough , a step which his biographer Eion Young rightly says proved a rite of passage from racing as a hobby to racing as a profession . |
| 16 | With his first vote the West German elector can if he so desires make a choice solely with reference to the rival candidates ' personal qualities or their popularity . |
| 17 | The provision relates , however , only to the beginning of development and this apparently includes digging a trench or putting a peg in the ground . |
| 18 | 1 The present House of Lords is seen as a wrecking chamber with a built-in Conservative majority and a crippling power of delay that only exists to put a brake on a reforming Socialist government . |
| 19 | Pluralism is regarded as an ideology which masks the reality of power and so helps to legitimise a system which is grounded in inequality and an absence of fair play . |
| 20 | He thinks like , okay fair enough lets have a bit of snog you know , fair enough , whatever else ! |
| 21 | Fruitful though this has been in promoting and giving direction to research , its uncritical pursuit only serves to advance a reductionist and therefore an inadequate view of man . |
| 22 | Generally speaking it only pays to change a system when it has reached the end of its economic life — usually 20 years . |
| 23 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |
| 24 | It only remains to devise a film that will encode this experience in false colour . |
| 25 | In the right circumstances , horses can also learn affection for a person — which not only makes training a horse so much easier , but makes riding and working the horse such a pleasure . |
| 26 | Under the modern law , certiorari normally lies to quash a decision for error of law . |
| 27 | However , the SFO 's handling of its investigations has hardly been consistent and it already has set a precedent for the Barrowclough report to be published in full . |
| 28 | The value of R5 is actually not particularly critical ; it just has to provide a minimum of 93µA to the base of TR2 . |
| 29 | Marlboro , for instance , does not have to show or even mention somebody smoking cigarettes — it just has to show a cowboy . |
| 30 | It just means buying a telephone and plugging it in . |