Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tricks could be played , points made by drawing a drooping banner so that certain letters and words were obscured and altered by the folded fabric . |
| 2 | To overcome this problem Brown ( 1980 ) advocated the use of a retrospective approach so that not only can the most recent stages be assimilated but also the knowledge of research on contemporary processes may be incorporated . |
| 3 | I I 'm er quoting a hypothetical situation here that we have entered production with er production line for drop tanks maybe producing two , three thousand tanks against a projected usage for the next ten years and sometime during that period we decide you want to order an additional thousand tanks two thousand tanks then you could adjust the rate at which the deliveries occur , you could adjust the the the total quantity and with about a years notice industry can get in the materials and produce the goods for you . |
| 4 | This sentence can nevertheless be paraphrased by " If someone were to fall , he would unquestionably die " : the to infinitive evokes a hypothetical action here as well , i.e. an action to be avoided . |
| 5 | It seems clear then that ‘ for the majority of workers lifetime employment is a wishful ideal rather than an established convention ’ ( Aoki 1984 p.6 ) . |
| 6 | there , now this should be interesting cos we 're gon na get in a sticky mess here if we 're not careful , eight ounces |
| 7 | In this area he builds first a small depression by removing mouthfuls of sand and then produces a nest from weeds which are coated with a sticky substance so that they can be moulded with his snout . |
| 8 | In this version we shall in fact assume that it is wages that are set by trade unions one period in advance and that prices are flexible ; that is , we shall examine a sticky wage rather than a sticky price model . |
| 9 | In a second , the screen was replaced with a one-way mirror so that the mother could see the interacting pair but could not herself be seen . |
| 10 | So if that if that 's a right angle only if it 's a right angle cos Pythagoras 's theorem does n't work if it 's not then we 've got the easy way to remember Pythagoras is long equals medium plus short . |
| 11 | This is wound round the threads in a clockwise direction so that it is forced in as the joint is tightened . |
| 12 | She tried to move away , disturbed by the realisation that her feelings towards him had undergone a subtle change even though she could n't quite define it . |
| 13 | After half a minute 's silence she added that her life in the pensione was nevertheless temporary as she hoped to gain a full-time position in a private school shortly and accommodation was provided with this particular job . |
| 14 | It is not an abuse to process to assert private law rights by a private action even if the action raises or turns on public law issues . |
| 15 | David Lynch has optioned D M Thomas ' story of Freud , a woman and Russia , The White Hotel , and has a more obviously Lynchian novel in development , Delacorta 's Vida , about a 16-year-old who becomes a private eye just as someone starts shooting the architects of America . |
| 16 | Durham county councillors decided at a private meeting yesterday that the club building in Duke Street should be repossessed . |
| 17 | His recipes , some his own and many collected from his friends and contemporaries , were put together in the form of a private notebook rather than for publication . |
| 18 | Naturally enough , this view of faith as a divine gift rather than the product of a human effort was used to mark off the believers from the unbelievers . |
| 19 | They had a Spanish man there and another teacher , none of them spoke French . |
| 20 | It is often helpful for mothers to start offering the breast only after a solid feed so that the child is already quite full . |
| 21 | In a television interview in late December 1985 the British Prime Minister , Thatcher , suggested that a revival of the Carrington initiative for international guarantees for Afghanistan 's neutral status ‘ would perhaps be a possible way forward that might be pursued again ’ . |
| 22 | The notion of neighbourhood social work received something of a boost from the Barclay report of 1982 which endorsed the patch system and community social work as a possible way forward and recommended the ‘ development of flexible decentralised patterns of organisation ’ . |
| 23 | However I did throw in a little bit of doubt , there was a possible objection there that you might have apacked you sound a little bit doubtful Mrs , do you have a problem with that |
| 24 | In Gandhi 's view , the statement ‘ son of God ’ could only be used in a figurative sense and not in a literal sense so that anyone ‘ who stands in the position of Jesus is a begotten son of God ’ . |
| 25 | She wondered why John had not been more open with her but now she felt that she understood his situation better and they spent a blissful week together before he left . |
| 26 | Under the heading of ‘ occupational generalist ’ , Brennan and McGeevor ( 1988 ) list polytechnic/college degrees in business studies , environmental planning , hotel and catering administration , textile and fashion design and 3D design , all of which prepare the student for work in a broad occupation rather than a specific job niche . |
| 27 | So good , I ordered a low-al lager so as not to get locked into a session . |
| 28 | Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy . |
| 29 | It is sometimes represented in transcription with a low mark so that the examples could be transcribed as , . |
| 30 | The 3.4-kb mRNA is expressed in skin of mice homozygous or hemizygous for the original p mutation , but at a very reduced level ( Fig. 2 a , lanes 11 and 12 ) , consistent with genetic data indicating that p is a low activity rather than a null mutation . |