Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A payment only qualifies under Gift Aid if it is a ‘ gift ’ . |
| 2 | Choosing one category as a base effectively turns any polytomous variable into a series of dichotomous variables known as dummy variables . |
| 3 | Even with sentences not of the form A is f(X) it is often the case that a sentence containing a hyponym unilaterally entails a parallel sentence which is identical in all respects except that it contains a superordinate in place of the hyponym : |
| 4 | Works of art are not a high priority in most people 's lives ; a recession soon underlines this point ! |
| 5 | A function often carries out a number of actions , but it always produces a single result . |
| 6 | If a case clearly invites you to redesign a kitchen because the existing layout does n't conform to the food hygiene regulations and you miss this , then obviously you should n't get as many marks as someone who has spotted it . |
| 7 | If a case ever goes to court , the outcome may be unfavourable . |
| 8 | Bloody hell she looks a bit well does n't she ? |
| 9 | That 's a bit of a long drag that one , not that Paul take open up a bit there and go a bit faster , level , but that was a bit Well 's done a left up to Chell 's Field and that , bloody that killed him , I bet , you know the bit I mean , and up over the fields , where you go through the fields and fields , that was the killer , cos and coming back Bell 's straight round to , got to the bottom , Hill was n't too bad . |
| 10 | Always takes a bit longer does n't it ? |
| 11 | Said Guy 's been playing up a bit lately has n't he ? |
| 12 | mm good , I mean that 's not so appropriate these days life is it , cos P V C proved itself a bit more has n't it ? |
| 13 | but it does matter a bit though does n't it ? |
| 14 | it goes a bit faster does n't it , the next er er and a couple of bits after . |
| 15 | In the same way that the spectacle of a butterfly or a peacock still arouses the feeling that there must be more to it than evolution , consciousness insists there must be more to itself than that . |
| 16 | The American media , Moscow admitted , ‘ claim that such a decision allegedly runs counter to the principles of non-alignment ’ . |
| 17 | A decision now has to be made about whether this rearrangement is acceptable for the time being or whether some further rearrangement might be more satisfactory . |
| 18 | The jurisdiction to quash a decision only exists when there has in fact been an error of law . |
| 19 | In practice fitting a coprocessor usually has a much smaller impact than advertised . |
| 20 | Zero-risk theory as described by Summala ( 1974 , 1976 ; Summala , 1988 ) suggests that a driver generally feels no subjective risk of accident , and stresses that normal control of behaviour is governed instead by the adoption of adequate safety margins . |
| 21 | Racing is in the blood , and while a driver still thinks he can do it , at or near the top , he is always going to be tempted . |
| 22 | The beginning of a sentence generally introduces what it is " about " , often an item of given information ( i.e. something which has already been mentioned or has been directly implied ) . |
| 23 | The fact that the interpretation of a sentence often requires a listener or speaker to go beyond literal meaning was first highlighted in psycholinguistics by Johnston , Bransford and Solomon ( 1973 ) . |
| 24 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 25 | It is only because a text formally under-determines its interpretation in context that a space is created for pragmatics . |
| 26 | Because a text always relates historically to other texts , one way of developing material for your essay is to compare texts . |
| 27 | They include Documenta Portrats , an impressive 170 portraits of participating artists taken during the installation of their works , by the German photographer , Dirk Bleicker , with an accompanying text in German and English ( DM28 ) , and a documentation of Joseph Kossuth 's conceptual installation ‘ Das Passagenwerk ’ with a text by Denys Zacharapoulos ( DM24 ) . |
| 28 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |
| 29 | ( Though if one simply considers ‘ all women ’ as against ‘ all men ’ , such a finding invariably fails to emerge ; which only goes to show that lumping all women together masks important and interesting facts . ) |
| 30 | ‘ Working for industry makes you intensely more accountable than just working for a university ever does . |