Example sentences of "[vb -s] move a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rotor teeth are once again aligned with these stator teeth , except that the rotor has moved a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 2 | In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected . |
| 3 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 4 | The electrification of one of British Rail 's busiest commuter routes has moved a step closer . |
| 5 | Not only have they suffered the nightmares of the civil war , but as each day has passed , they 've known that their daughter has moved a stage closer to death . |
| 6 | Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole . |
| 7 | Now the exercise has moved a further step forward , with yarn ranges presented to knitwear manufacturers and retailers . |
| 8 | GLOBAL electronic mail , with desktop computers linking Courtaulds businesses round the world , has moved a step nearer reality . |
| 9 | A proposed rail link between Oxford , Aylesbury and Milton Keynes has moved a step nearer reality this afternoon with the decision by Buckinghamshire County Council to invest in the project . |
| 10 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
| 11 | Hoey claims the SAS watch on the royals is so rigorous that Di must alert them every time she wants to move a piece of furniture or a even a painting at Highgrove or Kensington Palace . |
| 12 | For example , suppose a motor with the torque/speed characteristic shown in Fig.5.l has to move a load 1000 steps . |
| 13 | This argument is reversed when the load has to move a large distance , because a high operating speed is then required . |
| 14 | There 's Robin Smith , who 's moved a little straighter in fact , you ca n't call him silly point now , he 's more of a silly mid-off , on that 's sort of line , and he 's about three yards on bat , two men out , deep on the leg side , there 's tough on the who 's hoisted that one away on the leg side , I think that could well be safe for , who 's chasing wicket , two bounce it 's over the rope , and four more runs to , he 's kept up his one hundred per cent boundary rate , moves on to twenty , five fours , and it , again , his eye very much on that short leg side boundary and Tufnell and Gooch they 're having further consultations and that leg side field being adjusted again . |
| 15 | Bus company management claim that any offer below £3.7m makes moving a financial impossibility . |