Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
| 2 | A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go . |
| 3 | You would n't think for a dainty little thing would you ? |
| 4 | The fans are still hoping the terraces will be filled for a bright new future to come . |
| 5 | JOHN ROLFE and Adrian Breton will be competing for a British Olympic place at the weekend when the rapid fire pistol match in the World Cup Tournament in Los Angeles will be the decider for Barcelona , writes Leslie Howcroft . |
| 6 | Of course the addition of a stereo processor would require a slightly bigger case but would still make for a manageable little rig . |
| 7 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 8 | CDTV uses a CD-ROM system coupled to a powerful computer , disguised as a domestic electronic appliance . |
| 9 | In the first year Armstrong 's concern is to go for a minimum safe agenda — ‘ make sure clients are safe and then build on that . ’ |
| 10 | He was first jailed and then compelled to leave Rome ; he is said to have died in the Punic city of Utica , a remarkable place to go for a disgraced Roman intellectual ( St Jerome , Chron. a. 1816 , p. 135 Helm ) . |
| 11 | The drivers , said to go for a small fixed-price fee , will be delivered in a binary-only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or maintenance agreement . |
| 12 | The drivers , said to go for a small fixed-price fee , will be delivered in a binary-only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or any maintenance agreement , and may not be sold . |
| 13 | Prevent plants in containers and hanging baskets from drooping during a long hot summer by adding water-retentive gel , such as Broadleaf P4 , to the compost . |
| 14 | Mujjaddedi had on June 21 threatened not to hand over power ( as required by the Peshawar accord ) to Rabbani , whom he branded as a Khomeini-like Islamic radical . |
| 15 | The biggest building is a rectangular , windowless hulk erected for a short-lived Anglo-American attempt to develop an over-the-horizon radar system called Cobra Mist . |
| 16 | In the nineteenth century , after the American and French revolutions , another distinction — between monarchy and republic — assumed great importance , and republicanism developed as a radical political movement directed against survivals or attempted restorations of the ancien regime , merging to a large extent with the general democratic movement . |
| 17 | Forte applications are developed as a single monolithic application and then subsequently partitioned or automatically broken up to run on various computers within the distributed environment . |
| 18 | For example , long-run earnings per share ( ) could be calculated as a three-year moving average . |
| 19 | The Dowsing Fault-Zone can still be distinguished as a separate structural zone which has seen Tertiary re-activation , as shown in Profile 1 . |
| 20 | It had also successfully lobbied for a prestigious residential development under the Community Development Block Grant programme , although the sale prices far exceeded the borrowing capacity of the majority of local residents ( median income was less than $7,000 in 1980 , whilst unemployment stood at three times the city average ) . |
| 21 | And for Americans who can not get enough , CNN has arranged for a gruelling daily schedule of Brinkley on four other topics : food , travel , showbiz and health — laughingly titled Living In The Nineties . |
| 22 | Both men , police have been told , arranged for a leading Liberal supporter to be " reimbursed " " £5,000 , the same amount Mr Andrew Newton alleges he was paid to murder Mr Scott . " |
| 23 | As was said by the Royal Commission , the police should not , on a warrant to search for a stolen grand piano , look under the floorboards or in the water cistern . |
| 24 | Another half-hour 's walking brought me to Cow Dub where a stream thunders down from a lip of flowstone , crashing through a narrow tubular cavern to scour out a perfectly formed round pool below . |
| 25 | Almost the only significance of Trotskyism in the 1930s was that a tenuous tradition was established which was not to materialize as a significant political influence until the 1960s . |
| 26 | When iron is released the protein goes through a large conformational change involving domain rotation and exposure of the empty metal-binding site to the solvent . |
| 27 | It was conceived of by all those who participated in it not as a coalition government as generally understood , but as a temporary , emergency government , formed for a single limited purpose : to balance the budget through drastic economies and increases in taxation . |
| 28 | Blackburn led through a sweet 43rd minute strike from the impressive Jason Wilcox , before Boro sub Jamie Pollock changed the game . |
| 29 | The relation in Lowland Amerindian societies between power , knowledge , scarce resources and social action is increasingly recognized as a key theoretical area for debate ; and for many investigators who specialize in South American studies they see a critical need for the elaboration of a theory of power ( or various of them ) that would make understandable the non-centralized authority structures of Tropical South America . |
| 30 | Whilst ‘ the elderly ’ have long been recognized as a distinct social category , ever-stricter stratification by age has emerged since industrialization ( Thomas 1976 ; Quadragno 1982 ) . |