Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing I could do for it this time' ) , but ‘ Is She Really Going Out With Him ? ’ , formerly ditched , now finds itself reinstated , although apparently in a setting designed to tease out its reluctant humour once and for all . |
| 2 | Although not in a sense surprising , the impact of the bare facts is nonetheless considerable : for it emerged that these women spent an average of over three hours on weekdays on various caring activities compared to the 13 minutes offered by men ! |
| 3 | This does not affect the cogency of his criticism and prognostication — the cultural barbarism which he feared has perhaps descended , although not in a form which he could have envisaged . |
| 4 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 5 | The size of the oligonucleotide will determine whether it occurs more than once in a sample DNA and therefore might prime DNA polymerase activity at multiple sites . |
| 6 | Any café 'll do , but you ca n't use any of them more than once in a while or they start chucking you out . |
| 7 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
| 8 | A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . |
| 9 | Referring to Figure 5.7 again , a part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node and box stored at second and subsequent occurrences . |
| 10 | A part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node shown at subsequent entries . |
| 11 | Although still in a state of shock , Mr Singh has now appointed himself to the full chairmanship and , along with myself , represented the club at the funeral . |
| 12 | Though his current technique is based on the battle against fast bowling ( he is moving back rather than across in an attempt to eliminate his Achilles heel , the lbw decision ) , he plays slow bowling with rare arrogance . |
| 13 | Though his current technique is based on the battle against fast bowling ( he is moving back rather than across in an attempt to eliminate his Achilles heel , the lbw decision ) , he plays slow bowling with rare arrogance . |
| 14 | When , and if , I got to the 2ème Régiment Étranger des Parachutistes I hoped that my efforts during basic training would pay off , and that I could get involved , if not in a war , then in something physically and militarily more adventurous than anything I had done so far . |
| 15 | A southern Italian , he had taught up until now in a village near Naples and could not speak a word either of Slovene or of Triestino . |
| 16 | It gave us a chance to see what he was like as a person , because normally in an interview you 've got thirty to forty-five minutes in which to make a decision about a person.That can be very difficult . |
| 17 | The second example is that of a young mother who , while not in a tower-block , lives on the top floor of a maisonette . |
| 18 | While not in a heat Jan would be out encouraging the other competitors . |
| 19 | When we had knocked against the nylon walls as we got up , snowflakes dropped on us , while above in a cave our six Zanskari porters and Dorje , our Ladakhi cook , were already crouched around a wood fire . |
| 20 | ‘ I had thought of getting a young man , ’ said Edwin , ‘ though perhaps in a way it 's hardly a job for a man . |
| 21 | Uzuncarsili follows much the same line , though perhaps in an attempt to salvage something of the Taskopruzade/Mecdi story he suggests in effect that in that story Mehmed I ( 1413–21 ) should be read for Bayezid I : he thus concludes that Molla Fenari left for Karaman either in the confused period following Ankara or in the time of Mehmed I , in the manner described by Taskopruzade . |
| 22 | ‘ Jesus was , of course , born in an inn , though admittedly in an outbuilding because there was no room inside . |
| 23 | For Althusser does deal with this distinction — though not in a way Lukes can accept — by denying its validity . |
| 24 | In the 1960s , the idea had resurfaced — though not in a form that Owen would have recognised as remotely related to that that he had advocated . |
| 25 | When food is clumped in groups , the best method of search is to move straight ahead when not in a group , but to turn through tight angles once one item has been found , in order to find the rest of the group . |
| 26 | Though once in a while such separation strokes may have a slight accentual implication as perhaps in ex.3c in the majority of cases they do not . |
| 27 | She clashed her talons on the bars , brought her beak down on them as well in a way that must have pained her , and swung sideways towards Creggan . |
| 28 | I think that leads to crime in s as well in a way . |
| 29 | Generalization which we 'll come to a lot later as well in a lot more depth er is very important in these systems . |
| 30 | Mind you , I 'm like our Colin as well in a lot of ways . |