Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe someone somewhere has got a good idea . |
| 2 | Presumably , the Met only wants to put a limited number of TAFs on the system in order to save money and work ( it costs more to have a larger number of pages for your ‘ area ’ on the Prestel database ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Bringing all this together has required a great deal of planning , co-operation between numerous organisations and many long hours of work , ’ he added . |
| 4 | Because it is an interlocutory judgement it is usually heard before a master of the High Court , and a defendant only has to show a good arguable case for the plaintiff 's application to fail . |
| 5 | The island of Hawaii alone seems to have a long-term average rate of construction of over 0.4 km 3 a- 1 , while Iceland has sustained a rate of about 0.13 km 3 a- 1 during historic time , and a rather lower average of 0.06 km 3 a - 1 over the past 16 Ma . |
| 6 | It 's a white place , like Wigan which only seems to have a Black population on Tuesday nights when the music from the Wigan Pier nightclub 's jazz-funk DJ draws in young Blacks from as far as the Midlands to body-pop . |
| 7 | ‘ The wonderful crowds , the garden setting , the cry of the gulls all helps to provide a special feeling . ’ |
| 8 | Maintaining the countryside in a pristine ‘ rural ’ state merely means consigning a substantial section of its population to a level of material existence which those who propound such policies would not themselves tolerate . |
| 9 | While it brings a warm glow of a job well done ( and , perhaps , the thought that a happy subscriber is more likely to keep on subscribing ) answering such queries personally does leave a nagging worry . |
| 10 | Classical conditioning requires the combined occurrence of two events ; it is a procedure in which a neutral stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits a reflex or other response until the neutral stimulus alone comes to elicit a similar response . |
| 11 | So and so 's , so and so 's lame , and so and so 's got a big leg so and so caught hiself this morning , had an overreach . |
| 12 | A fountain of blood at first pours from his chest , but soon subsides to become a steady trickle . |
| 13 | He no longer has to enter a conditional appearance , since that practice was abolished when acknowledgements of service were introduced , but must file his acknowledgement and give notice of intention to defend and then issue his application to set aside service and the renewal order within 14 days . |
| 14 | The demand for bank lending will fall , not because of a rise in the ‘ own ’ rate of interest on bank loans but because the fall in interest rates elsewhere has caused a relative rise in bank interest rates . |
| 15 | Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past . |
| 16 | Mostly musicians spend their time jerking off in front of others and guitar and bass-playing readers are basically fans of the idea of that , but the truth is that it 's all individual — every neck on every guitar just has to feel a certain way . |
| 17 | Today 's world-class athlete no longer needs to have a full-time job to support his or her athletics . |
| 18 | → I do n't think that our look at the Carlton Combo was anything other than a fair , unbiased review of a new product which just happens to incorporate a different technology along the way . |
| 19 | The chorus finally appears to offer a chilling exegesis of how we should regard Faustus 's hellish fate : |
| 20 | It thus appears to neglect a significant part of care under the National Health Service which is of crucial importance to elderly people and their carers . |
| 21 | The principle of equal concern and respect thus appears to offer a promising theoretical foundation for the parallel development of a participatory form of democracy and the generation of a public-law theory of adjudication . |
| 22 | Naturally , losing an order is a serious matter , but with job production it normally means waiting a short period before being asked to quote again for a different job , whereas with flow production it might be two years before the model is changed and the opportunity is provided to quote again ( by which time the buyer might have forgotten the existence of the salesperson ! ) . |
| 23 | The person beset by fears and anxieties who nevertheless manages to present a confident exterior will often feel self-contempt because he feels that he is living a lie and that one day someone will catch him out . |
| 24 | Corrigan and Frith ( CCCS , 1975 , p. 238 ) concluded : ‘ even if youth culture is not political in the sense of being part of a class-conscious struggle for state power , it nevertheless does provide a necessary precondition of such a struggle ’ . |
| 25 | From their point of view individualism gives up too soon , and thus fails to reveal a whole dimension of the social world . |
| 26 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
| 27 | The turner still has to hold a great juddering chisel in his hands and relies on a good eye and a steady hand to ensure a true cut . |
| 28 | But she still has to take a daily cocktail of drugs . |
| 29 | Steve Cram , the Olympic 1500 metres silver medallist in 1984 , still has to launch a serious challenge for his place in the team but took another solid step on the road to Barcelona with an encouraging relay leg at Sheffield . |
| 30 | Course Moira always has had a vivid imagination , you have to take what she says with a pinch of salt . |