Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Hunsbury Hill Country Park , to the south west of the town centre , includes an historic Iron Age camp , extensive walks , and train rides along an old ironstone railway . |
2 | Chris bumped his head again while snorkelling and now has rather an impressive bandage ! |
3 | This is established in feline leukaemia , of which the greatly increased incidence in households with many cats is due mainly to exposure of kittens to large doses of a virus that usually causes merely an immunising infection . |
4 | The victim has only an equitable interest , and the accused is not guilty of theft of the shares . |
5 | Royal Bank of Scotland , for instance , has only an upmarket service through stockbroker Charterhouse Tilney . |
6 | At this stage , when the marram dies and the dune has only an incomplete cover of vegetation , there is a great danger of a blow out . |
7 | Today , over fifty years after the beginning of the testing but successful reign of King George VI , the Abdication looks merely an unusual transition from one sovereign to another . |
8 | In part this change of attitude has been caused by an awareness that the earliest manuscript of the Histories , which contains only an abridged version of the first six books , does not reflect Gregory 's own intentions . |
9 | The country was a leader in the expansion of Europe , but holds only an average position in the European Community area as it becomes a more unified , single competitive market from 1992 . |
10 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
11 | Land has both an economic function and a function in terms of personal and social esteem : |
12 | [ Holds up an idealised portrait of Jesus with blond hair and blue eyes . ] |
13 | It will be a choice of ends , for example , even if forgotten a moment later , when he chokes back an erupting laugh at a slip by an important man , the choice being between a momentary and a long-term goal , the latter of which the other man could jeopardize . |
14 | It was the birthplace as you soon find out of Marshal Foch , supreme commander on the western front in the later stages of the First World War , who has here an equestrian statue , a main street named after him and a small museum in the house where he was born in 1851 . |
15 | For its size , Penge has quite an imposing Town Hall , erected in Anerley Road , between the station and the aforementioned school , in 1879 . |
16 | This scale has quite an unusual sound and takes a little getting used to . |
17 | NCVQ , which has an overall responsibility to reform and rationalise all vocational qualifications in England , Wales and Northern Ireland exercises essentially an accrediting role through recognising as NVQs those qualifications which meet its criteria . |
18 | As indicated above , religious education in the Catholic secondary school , while being a vehicle for a mode of catechesis , has essentially an educational focus . |
19 | A contemporary dishonest bill ordinarily involves not an exorbitant disclaimer ( although there are plenty of these disclaimers still in use ) , but a shipment that does not take place , or a vessel that does not exist or disappears without a trace after loading . |
20 | A short distance up the road from the Hill Inn , a bridleway turns off to the right and , with Ingleborough looming directly in front , passes along an easy terrace to reach a gate in a cross-wall after half a mile . |
21 | Now in her case we put her on two fifties but that i uses up an awful lot of skin and it 's a real hassle , so er |
22 | In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx describes how an authoritarian regime founded on the bureaucracy ( both military and civil ) enabled the state , led by Louis Bonaparte , to gain a measure of autonomy from the warring factions of the French bourgeoisie so as to preserve the bourgeois social order in the face of a mounting threat from the lower classes . |
23 | ‘ … originally the ego includes everything , later it separates off an external world from itself ’ . |
24 | The following filter incorporated to reduce the residual potential fluctuation may be C-R in type provided that the series resistance R introduces only an insignificant drop in the direct output potential difference . |
25 | The infant Cornelia , C.Z. 's daughter , hangs over an eighteenth-century chair ( above ) . |
26 | For any candidate for entry , all packages in the structure which contain the module are examined to see if an entry point exists ie. an active DC referencing the module . |
27 | In the Soviet view it marks off an entire millennium of ‘ feudalism ’ from the capitalist phase which it inaugurated . |
28 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
29 | 1.16 Much has been written on ‘ English across the curriculum ’ , a phrase which , for some , conjures up an unacceptable vision of English reduced to a service subject , and for others an equally unacceptable vision of subject specialists burdened with responsibilities that should rightly be carried by teachers of English . |
30 | But such an argument implicitly rules out an important alternative ; for it discounts the idea that the attempt to give an a priori defence of individualism may be mistaken . |