Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , analyses of the 1984–6 Labour Force Survey suggest that over a quarter of married and cohabiting Afro-Caribbean women ( and Afro-Caribbean men ) aged under 30 had white partners ( CSO , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | While P P G twelve provides for a cascade of planning policy , I suggest that only a purist would delay a resolution of the needs of Greater York , through the development plan process , in order to await regional planning guidance . |
| 3 | Lawyers say that quite a lot of Jason 's £35,000 will go in George 's fees . |
| 4 | Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over . |
| 5 | you see and they 're asking for people who could ref who could , you know , give references to cos like put all these , all , down on these different things that you want like you know , say you want but then a lot of people just put down small business and management , something like that . |
| 6 | The proportion has now soared to two-thirds — DHSS figures for 1982 show that only a minority , 713,700 , exist on the £25 a week unemployment benefit alone — 2,612,000 " top up " with supplementary benefit , and another 1,428,500 depend on supplementary benefit alone . |
| 7 | Their answers , outlined in Table 5 , below , show that only a quarter ( 25% ) of them were also readers . |
| 8 | ‘ And you consider that only a psychiatrist 's opinion would be of any value ? ’ |
| 9 | But he added : ‘ I suspect that quite a lot of British MPs … will decide that power is now moving towards an enhanced European Parliament . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Nour , ’ said Marie Claire , giving him the warning glance that only a mother can command . |
| 11 | Mortality data indicate that only a minority of such deaths occur in ‘ the executive male ’ . |
| 12 | Although the finding of a colorectal stricture in ulcerative colitis very appropriately raised concerns of cancer , all studies including our own indicate that only a minority of these strictures are in fact malignant . |
| 13 | Maccoby and Jacklin , authors of the standard review of psychological sex differences , note that even a study like their own , which finds mostly similarities , turns inexorably into a trait psychology ( 1974 : 3ff ) , centred on masculinity and femininity , and the differences between them . |
| 14 | Note that both a primary and secondary media item are required for offlining purposes as two copies are taken ( one on each ) before a module is considered offline . |
| 15 | Most Right-to-Lifers believe that only a threat to the life of the mother is sufficient justification and that most women seek abortions for essentially ‘ trivial ’ reasons . |
| 16 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 17 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 18 | The Tories argue that only a vote for the SNP is a vote for change . |
| 19 | However , they also argue that only a vote for them is a vote for the Union . |
| 20 | The key to freeing the body to regain its lost dignity lies in inhibiting the unconscious habit of muscle tension ; only then may we perform actions in such a way that they become as much a joy to carry out as they are to watch . |
| 21 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 22 | A married 32-year-old store manager says : ‘ If I chanced upon an encounter , I think that maybe a couple of years ago , I would n't have worn one . |
| 23 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 24 | Now those I think and quite a lot of other people do are probably the most awkward ones . |
| 25 | In most countries bank deposits transferred by means of cheques are freely accepted in the discharge of debts and as such constitute as much a part of a country 's money supply as its bank notes . |
| 26 | These regulation require that either a silencer , expansion chamber or other contrivance is fined as may be reasonable to reduce the noise . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd come for the Christmas or even write but never a word , no thought for anybody except himself , ’ and it cast a deep shadow when they tried to imagine what kind of space enclosed Luke in England during the same hour , but they were n't able to imagine it . |
| 28 | It is in fact implying that the deformation is partly a shear and partly a rotation by the amount about the 3-axis ( Figure 2.4 ) , since we have the rotation vector . |
| 29 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |