Example sentences of "a [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statistic would be called a five-quarter centred moving average . |
| 2 | In the Chapter 7 of this thesis I will discuss the restrictions of the HARPY system in more detail as well as a more flexible system which uses a bi-gram based finite-state grammar . |
| 3 | Detective Sergeant Burgess was a pleasant faced young man , but with hair already greying around his temples , for all that he was ; till in his twenties . |
| 4 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
| 5 | This last item can be used as a catch-all to embrace money spent on holidays , new furniture , entertainment , etc . |
| 6 | It is not uncommon , however , for these patients to present initially with watery diarrhoea and lower abdominal pain which together may suggest a colonic based pathology , especially if other clues like iron deficiency , folate deficiency , or features of splenic atrophy are either not immediately evident , or overlooked . |
| 7 | A retrospective arranged by Roger Billcliffe for the Fine Art Society to coincide with her 85th birthday confirmed her as one of Scotland 's partially hidden treasures . |
| 8 | Sublime , The Sol Mix : Manchester Music And Design 1976–92 is a retrospective celebrating the close marriage between the two art forms in the city . |
| 9 | The Berry-Hill Gallery , in recent years Vicente 's New York dealer , has arranged a ninetieth birthday celebration for Vicente this month in the form of a retrospective spanning five decades of his work and coming right up to and into the Nineties . |
| 10 | ‘ He does n't consider his captions a sacrosanct collection of frozen moments in time , ’ Ms Calder adds , ‘ and anyway only really changes the ones that have a dated feel about them . |
| 11 | MARTHE CASSETTE ( NEIGHBOUR ) : He was a shy withdrawn man , who was always polite and sweet . |
| 12 | it 's not gon na rain , you 're a lazy get |
| 13 | God you 're such a lazy have you got an envelope ? |
| 14 | In the context of this article , the need for a multi-national to engage in this sort of activity is likely to be limited to those occasions when the customer demands it for his own reasons , or where trading relationships have been established that would be threatened if one customer knew of the other 's existence . |
| 15 | ‘ We do n't want people to be abused or intimidated but just to be made aware of the fact that if they are wearing a fur coat the public have got a right to say something . ’ |
| 16 | The fans have got a right to expect that , ’ said Keegan . |
| 17 | They had to give me a brandy , I were in a right state me ! |
| 18 | I can remember hardly anybody 's names that I served with in the Signal section in eh in Colchester , ca n't even remember the officer 's name , the if people left somewhere erm , south of Colchester in Essex well it was quite quite and eh , he , we use to go out there and play , play a village team football , you know and have a , have a right have a right old do in the evenings . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , you 've got a right to know . |
| 20 | It soaks in completely leaving a dry feel to the surface . |
| 21 | ‘ Then , if it 's a private do , I 'd feel out of place . |
| 22 | It was er a private do |
| 23 | For example , 39 to 44 below all have a present-tense marked form of have and are quite unremarkable examples of standard English present-perfect sentence types . |
| 24 | His friends and colleagues gave him a memorable send off and presented him with binoculars ( for his bird watching ) , a leather writing case ( so that he can drop us a line from far off places ) and a couple of brandy glasses ( empty — unfortunately ) . |
| 25 | Indeed , he and C.Z. must have been a divine couple themselves , and his spirit informs C.Z. 's conversation at every turn . |
| 26 | And then suddenly , just as Artemis felt Buttons was beginning to tire and that she was regaining control , as they topped a hill and began the run down the opposite side , a hedge loomed up in front of her , divided by a solid looking five-bar gate which was firmly closed . |
| 27 | The boots have a solid feel to them , and the descent from the Aonach Eagach down the side of Clachaig Gully , which must be one of the worst anywhere in Britain , was accomplished without problems . |
| 28 | Fixative was applied between layers to allow a solid build up of pigment . |
| 29 | Any slice through a solid comprising spherical grains of equal size will show spheres of many , apparently , different sizes ( Fig. 5.6 ) . |
| 30 | A regular icosahedron : a solid having 20 plane faces , all of them equilateral triangles . |