Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the age of 3 years most children can voluntarily initiate emptying a full bladder and later a partly full bladder . |
| 2 | We have written very carefully descriptive material of what is really happening in the experiment and then a very succinct set of instructions — do this , do that , turn the left hand knob . |
| 3 | Not all information will be regarded as of equal weight and therefore a truly total assessment is unattainable . |
| 4 | One-time England star Lee , a member of City 's 1968 title-winning side and now a highly successful businessman , insists he is not planning a takeover of the Blues . |
| 5 | A pull out left gains easy rock and just a little higher there is a perfect eagle 's eyrie of a stance , with good belays in a well pegged horizontal crack . |
| 6 | A second and probably a more significant aspect of decentralisation is where a certain measure of local autonomy or local initiative is encouraged by central authorities . |
| 7 | In the universe of doxa of primitive societies there is ‘ full correspondence of ( such ) mental structures ’ to doxa and thus a relatively undifferentiated habitus . |
| 8 | Malinowski was a prolific writer and also a uniquely gifted teacher , training , largely by the socratic method , a whole generation of brilliant disciples ; true to their master in their fashion they have created modern social anthropology with cross-fertilization from Radcliffe-Brown . |
| 9 | I look forward to your advice in due course and hopefully a more colourful life . |
| 10 | This criterion was introduced for the benefit of an authority like Kirklees which runs the large institution of Huddersfield Polytechnic but which has a limited population and therefore a relatively small rate basis . |
| 11 | One of the popular books at the very outbreak of war captured the mood , Mrs Miniver ( 1939 ) ; an American best seller and subsequently a most successful film , it is said that it hastened America 's entry into the war . |
| 12 | A fine game and also a very vital result for Abingdon Town . |
| 13 | There were undoubted gains for middle-class women in the nineteenth century , from a controlled access to divorce ( though one which sustained a double standard ) , the possibility of custody of children in the case of broken marriages , new rights in property and so on , and , no doubt many middle-class women , far from being ‘ redundant ’ , often participated in the major household decisions , supervised the servants , and increasingly gained access to birth control and hence a possibly less inhibited sexual pleasure . |
| 14 | First , the new approach may make the teacher aware of some lack of understanding of X — the originator of the innovation may well have a more comprehensive understanding of the topic and possibly a more detailed map of children 's paths towards it but neither is in fact essential for the promotion of the feeling of insecurity in the teacher . |
| 15 | These result in increases in entropy and thus a more negative value for G. Notice also that the free energy of formation of silver oxide is negative at lower temperatures but becomes positive as the temperature increases . |
| 16 | Quality would deteriorate and people would have less choice and therefore a less good service . |
| 17 | Four years later he has written Yul 's biography , which is partly a show biz life and partly a much sharper settling of accounts between father and son . |
| 18 | The general sequence of operation tends to be the same for all types with a pre-rinse , to purge the food residues , followed by a hot caustic wash and then a highly diluted cold acid rinse . |
| 19 | ( 170 MN/m 2 ) , much the same as ordinary glass and perhaps a little less than commercial steel . |
| 20 | Whereas here we 're we 're selling a erm a very much more prestigious item and also a much more long term er commitment on both sides . |
| 21 | Most who had previously suffered in this way reported a definite improvement and only a very few said they did suffer from constipation at first . |
| 22 | The path then continues straight , towards the pass and here a less distinct path leaves it to the right . |
| 23 | If you relate it to perhaps to something like car insurance , we 've got third party , third party fire and theft version and then a fully comp version . |
| 24 | A particularly straightforward procedure in principle and yet a very informative one is to add carefully a layer of hot salty water on top of one of cold fresh water ( or the counterpart of this in which two solutes are used instead of heat and one solute ) . |
| 25 | A little goes that way and then a very small amount goes that way . |
| 26 | It is a vast undertaking at considerable cost and hence a very brave venture in the current economic climate . |
| 27 | He had wiped the blood from the reliquary and only a little remained , stuck in the filigree of its thick little roof-disc . |
| 28 | A long pause and then a very half-hearted , ‘ Yes … ’ |
| 29 | We therefore begin , in Chapter 2 , by examining the argument frequently put forward that the new technology is leading to wholesale job destruction and hence a permanently high level of unemployment . |
| 30 | A disused pipe organ case is sometimes employed as a screen and certainly a more accurate impression of a pipe organ is gained if the speakers are positioned in one place , rather than dispersed around the building . |