Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents have ( or should have ) authority over their children and this constitutes both a responsibility and a burden . |
| 2 | This statement paved the way for and was indeed reiterated in Roberts in which the Court of Appeal held that consent had on the facts been terminated where there was a formal deed of separation , even though this lacked both a non-cohabitation and a non-molestation clause . |
| 3 | This represents perhaps a quarter of the true figure . |
| 4 | This represents perhaps an indication of the forced nature of the experience — forced by the combination of the sensation of immobility of REM sleep in association with the rich visual experience offered by the overactive hindbrain . |
| 5 | This seemed clearly a case of the patient needing the medicine more frequently so I suggested she take it at least 4 times daily . |
| 6 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 7 | All of this costs just a fiver . |
| 8 | This varies quite a bit , depending on the training and experience of the practitioner . |
| 9 | We regularly have 200 worshippers singing with us and this requires quite a lot of volume from the band to lead effectively , but I never find it necessary to increase the master volume on the Marshall beyond half way . |
| 10 | Sometimes this requires quite an effort from both horse and rider . |
| 11 | If this sounds rather a lot it is worth noting that other word processors that offer similar facilities make similar demands of your hardware . |
| 12 | Depending on size , this takes around a week to erect . |
| 13 | This reflects both a desire to uphold tradition and the fact that natural dyes produce a subtle beauty of tone that has never been equalled by even the finest synthetic dyes . |
| 14 | In his letter of Aug. 14 Saddam had underlined his determination " not to keep any of Iraq 's potential outside the arena of the great duel " and it was widely believed that this implied either an intention to consolidate Iraqi gains in Kuwait or launch an attack against Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | One immediate response to the CEGB 's announcement was the formation of the Alliance Against Hinkley C. This brought together a mixture of Friends of the Earth supporters from Bristol — only some twenty-five miles north of Hinkley — and others who had been active in the Somerset anti-waste-dumping campaign of the 1970s . |
| 16 | This brought together a number of the main themes of the New Deal its interest in social and economic planning and in scientific farming and conservation , its campaign for the provision of electrical power in the rural areas , and its concern with the revival of depressed communities . |
| 17 | Does this mean now a retention of significant capital works out at ten percent ? |
| 18 | All this took barely a year ( and around £500 of plants ) to establish mainly , says Hainge , because he grew only plants which suited their soil and conditions . |
| 19 | This lasts only a second or two . |
| 20 | Thus , the defence of the superiority of one nation against another had then a material dimension . |
| 21 | Yet this provides only a part of the explanation . |
| 22 | I got my burns scraped and that hurts quite a lot . |
| 23 | Is that done once a day or each driver ? |
| 24 | ‘ Well , that answers quite a lot , ’ Lucy said , drawing a deep breath to indicate she 'd just seen the light . |
| 25 | Without the information contained in the parish register , one might reasonably suppose that Joseph and Ann had three children , who were each to receive only a shilling unless Ann remarried , upon which occasion they would inherit the entire estate . |
| 26 | That happens once a year or so . |
| 27 | Admittedly , our present team of four would manage this programme only with reinforcement from some daily workers ; my staff plan therefore took in the services of a gardener , to visit once a week , twice in the summer , and two cleaners , each to visit twice a week . |
| 28 | They 've each got ideally a circle and a line so they have identical features but they 're different letters so clearly , I mean it 's quite obvious , it 's not only the features present but also their relationship to the other features that 're present that determines what type of letter is recognised So any model of perception would have to take that into account . |
| 29 | I have n't seen these look just a minute , please . |
| 30 | These occur twice a day and may not , under rules drawn up by the journalists themselves , be mentioned in print . |