Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a haemoglobin molecule has only a minute fraction of the complexity of a living body . |
| 2 | Losses in mortgage indemnity business , where General Accident has only a 4% share , were in line with expectations at $4.4m . |
| 3 | Losses during the full year in mortgage indemnity business , where GA has only a 4% market share , were again in line with expectations at $53.1m , including $20.9m in the fourth quarter . |
| 4 | On the benchmarks themselves , Pentium outstrips IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc 's fastest processors on integer performance , and is closing the gap with the RISC chips on floating point , although all are still comfortably ahead of the Intel processor with the exception of SuperSparc , which has only a 10% advantage over Pentium . |
| 5 | On the benchmarks themselves , Pentium outstrips IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc 's fastest processors on integer performance , and is closing the gap with the RISC chips on floating point , although all are still comfortably ahead of the Intel processor with the exception of SuperSparc , which has only a 10% advantage over Pentium . |
| 6 | No one , in this cast of hundreds , has just a walk-on part : a role in just one Goldwyn film entitles us to the full biography of Frances Farmer , from winning a teenage essay competition to her eventual confinement in an asylum . |
| 7 | BLIND MAN BEATS UP A BULLYING BULL TERRIER |
| 8 | So is Viasa , a Venezuelan airline in which Iberia has both a 45% stake and management control . |
| 9 | It heads up a pop promotion with a wonderful shout line : A-WOP-BOP-A-SIDGWICK-A-LOP-BAM-PAN ! ! |
| 10 | She holds up a sepia portrait of a turn of the century belle in a high-necked Russian blouse , standing before the backdrop of a painted Arcadia , with balustrades and beckoning groves . |
| 11 | He holds up a cricket bat . |
| 12 | ( Holds up a limpet shell . ) |
| 13 | She holds up a Waitrose bag . |
| 14 | In the case of the matching open-ended grant the effect is that of a price reduction , which incorporates both a substitution effect and an income effect ; hence the shift along the price consumption path PCC . |
| 15 | In Leetham ( Henry ) & Sons Ltd v Johnstone-White [ 1907 ] 1 Ch 322 Farwell LJ commented : … a man whose business is a corn miller 's business , and who requires to protect that , can not , if he has also a furniture business , require the covenantee who enter into his service as an employee in the corn business to enter into covenants restricting him from entering into competition with him in the furniture business also , because it is not required for the protection of the corn business in which the man is employed , however much it may be beneficial to the individual person , the owner both of the corn business and of the furniture business . |
| 16 | The Information Centre has also a part share in the Venables building , which has been constructed on the site of the old Midland Bank . |
| 17 | The Museum has also a tea house , and souvenir items which catalogue and postcards can be purchased in the reception area . |
| 18 | Thom has n't a kind word for either of them . |
| 19 | Apart from that , he has n't a driving licence , and he was at school on Wednesday afternoon . ’ |
| 20 | No-one cares how a construction worker talks or whether he has much education . |
| 21 | However his second Service is marked by a peculiarly English innovation : the introduction of passages for solo voice and organ , which plays not a continuo role but polyphony to which the voice doubles a part or supplies an otherwise missing one : |
| 22 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 23 | John fills in a gardening diary every day and often refers back to it to find out when they mulched or did other jobs . |
| 24 | He asks for credit terms and , at the trader 's suggestion , he fills in a finance company 's hire purchase proposal form , which is in fact an offer made by the customer and addressed to the finance company to acquire the item from the finance company on hire purchase terms . |
| 25 | If it says so a sk sound usually just S K desk ask disk frisk . |
| 26 | Thus , the Act itself establishes only a skeleton structure for the national curriculum and its assessment , empowering the Secretary of State to decide most of the substance in subsequent Orders . |
| 27 | Movement in these circumstances is over short distances and occurs down a pressure gradient . |
| 28 | Indeed , that two-way design uses only a Uni-Q driver — no supplementary bass unit is employed . |
| 29 | Where rifting occurs over a mantle plume the sub-lithospheric mantle will be up to 200°C hotter than normal and large quantities of magma will be generated . |
| 30 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |