Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] a [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next time , you , your daughter , your grand-daughter or just a neighbour is pregnant , you could think of the thirty-odd years that the NCT has spent safeguarding the interests of parents and babies , and you could get out your cheque book . |
| 2 | Even though things can look bleak for the unemployed , Mr Scott 's advice is to take the long-term view — sooner or later an opportunity is bound to arise . |
| 3 | It does not really matter how long or wide an aquarium is … it is depth that gives water pressure . |
| 4 | I could not imagine a German , Italian or even a Frenchman being so patient in such a discussion . |
| 5 | Whether Golitsin was a KGB plant or simply a fraud is irrelevant . |
| 6 | He suffered a flashback , an out-of-place reel from an old dark house horror movie , or maybe a nightmare being offered for psychoanalysis to Ingrid Bergman . |
| 7 | Nobody was hurt and luckily a picture was taken of the offender who is being actively sought . |
| 8 | The ringisho ( request for a decision ) goes back and forth and eventually a consensus is achieved among the interested parties , with the president giving his final approval . |
| 9 | The lamps in the cressets gave out the scent of perfumed oil , and somewhere a lutenist was playing quietly . |
| 10 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 11 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 12 | Further examination revealed a hard swelling at the base of the penis and the question of a foreign body was raised with Mr P. He strongly denied inserting anything into his urethra and so an X-ray was taken . |
| 13 | Queen 's Bench Masters ' Practice Direction of 25 March , 1988 requires that where an order is made transferring an action from the Queen 's Bench Division to a county court , the party having carriage of the order by himself or his solicitor shall forthwith produce at the Filing Department of the Central Office the order transferring the action and shall file : ( 1 ) a copy of the order transferring the action ; ( 2 ) a statement of the names and addresses of the parties and of their solicitors ; ( 3 ) copies of any pleadings served ; ( 4 ) if he is the plaintiff and has not served a statement of claim , particulars of his claim together with a copy for each defendant ; ( 5 ) if he is the defendant and only a counterclaim is transferred and no counterclaim has been served , particulars of the counterclaim together with a copy for the plaintiff ; ( 6 ) where money has been paid into court , a copy of the notice of payment into court ; ( 7 ) a statement of the index numbers of any affidavits filed . |
| 14 | Indeed , in the first series of patients only 72% were bleeding from varices , haemostatic treatment was not uniform and only a minority were treated with sclerotherapy . |
| 15 | Many easterners are still not convinced by the virtues of unfettered markets , and only a handful were in any active sense dissenters under the previous regime . |
| 16 | A useful review of some of this work is given in Anon. ( 1982a ) and only a summary is presented here . |
| 17 | Another deadly volley of canister and scarcely a man was left on his feet and capable of charging even had he wanted to do so . |
| 18 | One important distinction between these types of society is that some may be resistant to further development while others facilitate it , and thus a contrast is established between the development of society in Western Europe , through feudalism to capitalism , and the relative immutability of Asiatic societies . |
| 19 | Effective communication nationally was the one factor missing , German chemists were not concentrated in a particular city , unlike their French counterparts in Paris , and thus a forum was needed . |
| 20 | The main purpose was to pack as much corn as possible into the bay ; but in treading the corn in this way much of it was shaken out of the ear , and thus a start was made on the threshing . |
| 21 | The business in the example , it should be pointed out , is likely to be a retailer as there is no manufacturing capacity in the fixed assets and thus an opportunity is provided for the teacher to explore with the students the expected differences in the structure of assets and liabilities between different industries . |
| 22 | With this approach any movement in the direction of a trade deficit is identified as a cost , and conversely a gain is associated with the development of a surplus . |
| 23 | Similar loading continues onto the upper triangle ( no space can be left in the middle ) , still keeping the corners well built up , and finally a cap is built over the tripod tips . |
| 24 | Burton was physically falling apart , and finally a doctor was called for . |
| 25 | They were five people in one small room , and hardly a word was said between them until Gus Hambro had a large brandy under his belt , and was visibly returning into circulation . |
| 26 | But our own food supply is being decimated around us and hardly a hand is being raised . |
| 27 | I understand that a bridge over a stream on this footpath and also a gate are in a very poor state of repair . |
| 28 | Serial killer , child-in-peril stuff , and probably a woman 's read . |
| 29 | The hardest problems are those where simple processes are hard to find , usually because of some complexity of the puzzle which makes it hard to see the effects of moves , or those where the basic coordinate system and hence a notation is hard to find . |
| 30 | The distinction is explicable on the basis that directorship has not been regarded by the courts as a profession , and hence a director is not expected to satisfy a higher standard , for example that of the reasonably competent business manager , simply by virtue of holding office . |