Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 2 | Equally , a significantly higher concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 in malignant ascites confirms previous work , but as it is a weaker inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator and is present in much lower concentrations than plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , it probably plays only a small part in the overall inhibition of fibrinolytic activity . |
| 3 | Thus an education department may be organised on an area basis so that the centre plays only a co-ordinating role . |
| 4 | Mike Roberts and colleagues at the CEGB 's research laboratories now think that air pollution plays only a minor role after all ( Forestry , vol 62 , pp 179-222 ) . |
| 5 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 6 | The analysis so far constitutes only a partial account of science . |
| 7 | Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position . |
| 8 | And Jung 's phrase ‘ something in us ’ implies that the wish constitutes only a small element in the psyche — one that is not difficult for a sensible , mature person to reject , once she/he has recognised how unrealistic it is . |
| 9 | CROSS A FAST TYPIST WITH A WINDOWS WORD PROCESSOR AND THE CHANCES ARE YOU 'LL SEE SOME WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH AS THE PROGRAM CHUGS ALONG A FEW PACES BEHIND THE USER . |
| 10 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 11 | If it goes down a thirty hole , it 'll be sixty wo n't it cos it 's double score . |
| 12 | But their principles of ownership and management could not be more different : private enterprise prevails in the West , while it represents only a tiny proportion in the East . |
| 13 | With Unix coming down to the desktop and moving into the commercial arena , Adobe feels their two paths are beginning to come together , even if Unix still represents only a tiny piece of its business . |
| 14 | Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB . |
| 15 | In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) . |
| 16 | This represents only a small proportion of the structure . |
| 17 | They are bogging down ; and even if some formula is reached which both sides can sign , Joshua represents only a small minority of Africans . |
| 18 | The new ground that had to be broken in terms of the aerodynamics , structure , passenger handling facilities and runway bearing strength of these weighty monsters represents only a small fraction of the problems that beset the regulating authorities not only in the USA , where most of them are built , but throughout the world in all the places where they operate . |
| 19 | But this sum — under 4% of the Block — represents only a small fraction of spending from the Block on education in Scotland . |
| 20 | All mountain rescue medical equipment is paid for by government funding , but this represents only a small percentage of our total costs . |
| 21 | It represents only a small percentage of total production . |
| 22 | Even excluding these the following represents only a small sample . |
| 23 | The legal profession offers only a limited range of negative criteria , although there exist many eulogies of good practice from which rules of conduct could be extrapolated by a neophyte practitioner ( e.g. Malcolm 1966 ; Megarry 1962 ) . |
| 24 | Accordingly s.6(1) offers only a partial definition of " intention of permanently depriving " . |
| 25 | There is a dictum in Edwards v Ddin [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 942 ( DC ) that s.5 offers only a partial definition of " belonging to another " , but the statement is probably incorrect . |
| 26 | Giving a place a special label , and , in some cases , fencing it off , may raise people 's awareness , but offers only a flimsy barrier against developers . |
| 27 | Looking for something that you do n't expect to find is a demoralizing task , and succeeding in finding nothing offers only a dreary satisfaction . |
| 28 | This mild stimulus normally produces only a weak withdrawal ; following conditioning a strong withdrawal is produced by the weak stimulus to the siphon as well . |
| 29 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 30 | Reaction conditions are outlined at the foot of each flow scheme , but technology receives only a passing mention , with little discussion of modern peptide synthesisers on which so much of contemporary synthesis relies . |