Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently , the analytical courses are cut out in joint schemes , and the students gain only a superficial introduction to both subjects . |
| 2 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 3 | The private sector service industries make only a small contribution while the public services make none . |
| 4 | The insect may be 50 yards away , and so make only a tiny image on my retina . |
| 5 | This would not be too great a bother if morels could be collected in the wild for a reasonable length of time each year , but the fruiting bodies of the morel make only a brief appearance , sometime between March and May . |
| 6 | But opera , whether their texts are well-written in the conventional literary sense or not , have almost no value as plays , and their librettos make only a shadowy sense away from their music . |
| 7 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 8 | The detailed changes to the boundary layer structure during this development are complicated , although they occupy only a small fraction of the total distance over which transition occurs . |
| 9 | At the same time , they provide only a limited basis for understanding the determinants of the long-run rate of growth , particularly technical progress and entrepreneurial activity . |
| 10 | The problem is not just that MOX reactors provide only a narrow channel for disposing of military plutonium , or that the channel will be clogged by the plutonium from uneconomic civil reprocessing programmes . |
| 11 | Pluralists provide only a partial perspective on the inactivity of certain interests and groups . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , hospitals provide only a small proportion of respite care — perhaps as little as 7% . |
| 13 | Although the above extracts , which are taken from a more detailed investigation ( Osbourn , 1988 ) , provide only a brief description they do demonstrate the potential offered by RGT for exploration and education within the area of aesthetic appraisal . |
| 14 | Suspended sediment load data , however , provide only a crude measure of overall erosion and do not reveal the proportions of that load which are due to agriculture , logging , urban development , etc . |
| 15 | The instructions for folding a piece of paper involve only a few operations like folding and unfolding . |
| 16 | The surface of the brain is totally insensitive , and operations on the brain in humans commonly involve only a local anaesthetic . |
| 17 | These arc just a few examples . |
| 18 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 19 | Bonds also have more intricate cash flow patterns than money market securities , which typically involve just a single payment at maturity . |
| 20 | The elaborate songs of male birds clearly fit best a manipulatory interpretation . |
| 21 | If one excludes cooking utensils , rugs are perhaps the only form of furnishing conducive to this nomadic way of life , because , when spread on the floor , they provide both a comfortable place to sit and a sanitary surface from which to eat food . |
| 22 | Now of course from the special school point of view they will say well many efforts are made to attempt to bring community life into the school and to have children erm or give them experiences in the community , so that you provide both a sheltered environment and also the opportunity to learn in the wider community , and this debate is something of a dilemma erm I do n't know that any body can give a definite answer to it . |
| 23 | Place now a thin wire of radius unc into the magnetic field at a height z so that its plane is perpendicular to the Z-axis , and each element of the wire is subjected to a constant radial flux density Br . |
| 24 | Consider the transform Notice that the two numerators must also be complex conjugates in order for G(s) to be real and its inverse Laplace transform correspondingly a real function of time . |
| 25 | I cook quite a reasonable steak . ’ |
| 26 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 27 | MCM provide quite a good assembly instruction leaflet with photographs depicting the 48 stages of the assembly procedure . |
| 28 | Partly for tourist reasons but partly because it does in fact provide quite a good service . |
| 29 | Your recollections will no doubt revive a lot of memories for many of our older readers and provide quite a few talking points for younger ones . |
| 30 | But if a situation changes and top-up payments cease then a thorough reassessment may reveal that a clients needs have changed . |