Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity . |
| 2 | But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’ |
| 3 | Therefore , I would see from a public point of view a substantial expenditure on this subject and I do n't think necessarily a level cuts from county planners . |
| 4 | In this new lab of his he can knock together a human being out of the unlikeliest odds and ends . |
| 5 | I know that I shall make only a small start before Christmas , so perhaps I can take the opportunity afforded by this Newsletter to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a good New Year . |
| 6 | Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power . |
| 7 | But it will make only a marginal difference to the stagnant housing market . |
| 8 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 9 | The change of context can influence only an excitatory association and thus the result of Fig. 4.6 , a loss of the CR , can be expected . |
| 10 | Organizations can absorb only a small number of people with these work goals . |
| 11 | The defence could always allege only a constructive possession and that there was no actual possession in the absence of a witness stating positive actual possession . |
| 12 | Eventually they become quite large , reaching six inches or more , so you will need rather a large tank for them . |
| 13 | While the United States would yield a constant strategic threat to the Soviet homeland the USSR would yield only a first strike threat to the American fleet . |
| 14 | We should not overlook the possibility of attracting professional musicians into church music , and the teaching profession in particular contains people who might need only a little persuasion to help , at least on an occasional basis . |
| 15 | This should need only a few turns |
| 16 | Yet , although that directive will need only a qualified majority vote , it is unlikely to whisk through the council . |
| 17 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 18 | Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene . |
| 19 | Your skin 's moisture content varies according to climatic conditions , so when the humidity is high , you will probably need just a light moisturiser . |
| 20 | How do you know like an eighteen year old is someone responsible |
| 21 | For this you will need both a plain writing nozzle and a basket-weave nozzle . |
| 22 | These packages will introduce both a European dimension and language learning to the existing course . |
| 23 | An approach to the material world — research — can yield both a theoretical alternative and a concrete rebuttal . |
| 24 | We shall introduce now a scalar function by the relationship |
| 25 | These olives — their trunks warped , gouged , carbuncled , abrasive to the touch — seem indestructible , as if they could survive even a nuclear winter . |
| 26 | This will withstand even a determined attack , as the plastic film will hold even when the glass is cracked . |
| 27 | In most of the work I shall discuss here a central position is maintained for the knowing subject as the intending actor who enters social situations . |
| 28 | Our existence would lack even an Adamic fig leaf of meaning if we ignored our capacity to glide over our past , coalescing and juxtaposing our memories , irrespective of their temporal spatial or circumstantial labels . |
| 29 | For example , placing the blocks in the centre of a large room or out on the porch , instead of in their usual corner , can stimulate quite a different type of play . |
| 30 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |