Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar difficulties are likely to arise where a provision has more than one status ; eg where a procedure is treated , for some purposes , as also being a rule . |
| 2 | It was a kitchen to challenge rather than enhance the skills of any cook ambitious beyond the boiling of eggs . |
| 3 | As one respondent in an in-depth interview said : ‘ I 'd be a bit taken aback if my solicitor contacted me . |
| 4 | I thought you 'd got a bit carried away when you were drawing them . ’ |
| 5 | Very often a sentence contains more than one ambiguous word form ; in such cases , there will occur a kind of mutual negotiation between the various options so as to achieve the most normal combination . |
| 6 | Do not lose interest and let the end of a sentence fade away as you scan your notes for the next remark . |
| 7 | Where a word in a sentence has more than one meaning , dictionary definitions can be used to select the appropriate sense . |
| 8 | Some versions of a text convey better than others what the author originally wrote . |
| 9 | The length of time required for a solid to flow rather than fracture is known as its rheidity and the type of flow produced is termed rheid flow . |
| 10 | Do not use visual aids for the sake of using them and do not use them as a defence to hide behind if you are nervous . |
| 11 | The best remedy for a creditor owed more than £50 was to make his debtor bankrupt . |
| 12 | Individual farmers prefer to have a framework to operate within when it comes to pay negotiations . |
| 13 | You seldom did — there so often seemed to be a story breaking just as you were thinking of getting away . |
| 14 | Such a privilege comes only as the gift of Providence . |
| 15 | This is still some disadvantage for the acquirer because it is more difficult to gain agreement to a change made subsequently than to a provision included in the first draft . |
| 16 | THE skipper of a yacht died yesterday after he and two friends fell overboard during a race off Angle , Dyfed . |
| 17 | We can not let them get too far ahead as it will become too great a gap to close even if they did happen to fall over their showlaces again . |
| 18 | The following points should be noted about partial offers : ( 1 ) The offeror and its concert parties must not buy shares in the target during the partial offer period , neither must they , or any new concert parties , purchase shares for a period of 12 months following a successful partial offer without the Panel 's consent ( Rule 36.3 ) ( although consent will normally be given where the partial offer has resulted in a holding carrying less than 30 per cent of the voting rights ( note 2 ) ) . |
| 19 | Before passing on , I will introduce a piece of terminology of my own and call central-system thinking ‘ cognisance ’ , a term chosen so as to give the flavour of knowledge , rationality , and accessibility to consciousness . |
| 20 | This shows conclusively that any movement forward will prevent a spin developing even if the rudder is forgotten altogether . |
| 21 | If you need a sine wave rather than a square wave , you can add the shaping circuit ( reference ) . |
| 22 | As the overnight election results came in , the Bank of England activated a programme to sell more than £2 billion of gilt-edged stock to help fund the Government 's high public spending . |
| 23 | Denying that people learned in precisely the same way as pigeons , Cartier insisted that the reason why a programme taught better than typical traditional methods was usually because of the latter 's inadequately prepared design : |
| 24 | The lack of even basic knowledge is probably a fault encountered more when dealing with a consultancy than with in-house PROs . |
| 25 | This compared with 26 per cent of the women without an intimate tie with husband or boyfriend , but who reported a confiding relationship with another person ( seen at least weekly ) , and with 41 per cent of those who had a confidante seen less than weekly or who had no such relationship at all . |
| 26 | Now , Matroc like other firms in the Morgan Group acknowledge that customers and technicians as a rule follow more than one path in solving a problem . |
| 27 | The cause of that sinking must be a peril insured i.e. when a vessel is reported sunk by heavy weather and the weather conditions do not indicate severe storm then the claim should be very carefully scrutinised . |
| 28 | After a siege lasting more than three hours , members of the RUC Mobile Support Unit stormed the house , smashed in the door and fired tear-gas inside . |
| 29 | By hyping through shock value alone Malcolm McLaren had provided a model with the Sex Pistols and in his wake came a new wave of manager-entrepreneurs who recognised that the process of ‘ selling ’ a performer began long before you signed a record contract . |
| 30 | A child born less than a year after its elder sibling is twice as likely to die in infancy than a child born two to three years after . |