Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand . |
| 2 | In 1987 imports into Britain fell by 12 per cent , although with around a fifth of the market we remained easily the world 's biggest tea importers . |
| 3 | Because production is a continuous process of reinvention , entrepreneurial efforts are focused on many thousands of small ideas rather than on just a few big ones . |
| 4 | But McMahon and Greene 's model predicted that there was an ideal between these two extremes , a surface at which the runner would be deflected more quickly than on either a harder or a softer track . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was stupid of me , but I had expected so much , if in rather a vague way , that the reality was a bitter shock : I was unqualified , I had no degree , I was n't even trained as a secretary . |
| 6 | This means that you should plan to start work on a big system early in the day and keep at it until at least a complete section of the warren has been dealt with . |
| 7 | A single node will recognise something if at least a certain number of its inputs are on , so it is basically a counting device . |
| 8 | The main constraint operating on the community relations police in West Belfast is in establishing contact with youth groups and schools in the area because of either a general resistance to the police or fear of intimidation from Republican paramilitary organizations as a result of involvement in a community relations programme . |
| 9 | ‘ Clogging ’ of these stents by material comparable with the one seen in plastic stents has not been seen , probably because of both a larger diameter of the lumen and the nature of the stent 's inner lining after re-epithelialisation . |
| 10 | At one level an attractive feature of goods subject to excise taxes is that they are relatively price-inelastic in demand , so that it is possible to raise taxation appreciably and increase revenue , because with only a modest effect on the level of consumption there is a small excess burden . |
| 11 | Whereas in Out a single dominant ideology acts as a structuring device on a wide variety of discourses in the society portrayed , in Such two discourses are selected and their interaction is staged within the mind of the protagonist . |
| 12 | Close — the pupil sees the choice as between only a few alternative possibilities . |
| 13 | Another unexpected and disturbing event , though of quite a different order , occurred one evening in 1973 when I was preparing the late night showing of 24 Hours . |
| 14 | And another highlight , though of quite a different kind , was in store next . |
| 15 | By the end of 1954 Nato , though with not a little reluctance , was agreeing to the new strategy . |
| 16 | Indeed , it was the same social and economic variables ( low socio-economic status and powerlessness ) that ‘ explained ’ crime ( though in quite a different way — by increasing vulnerability to labelling rather than by increasing actual deviation ) . |
| 17 | There are various technical terms for these two parts , and also differences of opinion as to where a particular clause divides , but still , this much seems agreed : the clause has a bi-partite structure , and the function of the choice as to what information we put in which part is to enable us to bring different bits of information into differing degrees of prominence . |
| 18 | If you do not do so , you may be left in some doubt as to when a constructive dismissal occurs . |
| 19 | Manorial court records sometimes give useful clues as to when a particular building existed ( even when it was built ) , but seldom are there clues to the sizes or layout . |
| 20 | As to why a peripheral , albeit a very smart one , should prove to be the saviour of a company we need to look at some history . |
| 21 | The firm must consider the knowledge and experience of each client for each activity and must place a note on file as to why a certain type of letter is issued . |
| 22 | As a result , there is rarely the time to provide adequate explanations as to why a particular step is carried out . |
| 23 | The question arises as to why a longer ( 60 second ) delay should allow a larger and thus excessive transfusion . |
| 24 | Labour voters who observed the anti-Labour virulence of the SNP campaigns are puzzled as to why a few Labour MPs and trade union luminaries have made it their mission to resuscitate a force that the electorate had efficiently reduced to three seats . |
| 25 | The present author was much intrigued as to why a northern merchant family should choose what seemed to be a most inappropriate device ( unless as indicative of their aggressive commercial practices ) . |
| 26 | In written language , for example , since there is no one-to-one correspondence between the marks ( alphabetic representations ) on the page , and how they are to be pronounced in speech , there is typically a range of alternatives as to how a written letter should be said . |
| 27 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 28 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 29 | At Slapton , as on not a few other manors , a degree of confusion is understandable , for tenures were complex , embracing not only freeholds and copyholds — mostly heritable , though including a few for lives — but also what were described in a survey made in 1548 as ‘ The Farme Landes ’ , which were probably parcels of the demesne that were let by copy of court roll , the larger ones for fifteen years , the rest at will . |
| 30 | Yet folk-dance is regularly presented , in certain kinds of exhibition and performance , as at least a simple kind of art . |