Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advocates of the popular front made little attempt to build a single co-ordinated organization . |
| 2 | The Home Office handed the BBC that monopoly only last year and the BBC has since agreed to pay a British satellite consortium , Unisat , £22 million to use satellites to make use of its supposed monopoly . |
| 3 | But is n't this ‘ manhole ’ also a condensed image which , like the letter generally , fearfully anticipates engulfment in the return of those actual others ( ‘ outside evils ’ ) whose subordination , persecution , or exclusion has hitherto seemed to guarantee a sexual , racial , and national purity — women , homosexuals , foreigners ? |
| 4 | But you appear not to have noticed a few glaring facts like that women in general do n't rape men , or beat them up , or design weapons or make the laws and enforce them or hold enough jobs of influence and authority to make an iota of difference to the way this bloody patriarchal shit-heap is run . ’ |
| 5 | Yet community education in working-class communities has not grown to offer a radical alternative to traditional adult education provision . |
| 6 | The fact that it has not happened says a great deal both about the appointments process and the legal profession . |
| 7 | Motoring : The soaring triumph of the exotic Stag : Blow all your savings on a rare classic convertible which has just started to show a major rise in value , says Roger Bell |
| 8 | Christ Church JCR in Cambridge has just voted to place a compulsory levy on students ' charges to subsidise tampons and sanitary towels . |
| 9 | It has been turning out bombs and shells since 1939 , and the Gulf war has already begun to embellish a colourful history . |
| 10 | Their party president , Mr Gerry Adams , has already refused to give a straight reply , hiding behind a mist of prevarication . |
| 11 | The US , which is responsible for 23 per cent of world CO 2 , against 13 per cent from the EC , has already refused to make a similar policy commitment . |
| 12 | Cook has already promised to take a 12.5 per cent stake in Owners via a tender offer , provided the Airtours bid failed . |
| 13 | The company has already had to win a hard-fought battle with Telecom to get access to international telephone lines — a must for the type of customers it hopes to attract . |
| 14 | The performance of modern gliders makes it much easier and more likely for a pilot to fly himself into a potential death trap unless he uses his imagination or has already learned to have a healthy respect for the elements . |
| 15 | No one has ever tried to edit a Viennese waltz : all those inflexions of tempo would look terrible on the page . |
| 16 | Considerable skill in getting plants established was also required — it is only too easy for gaps to appear , or for an odd man out in flower colour to pop up , as anyone who has ever tried to grow a complete row of vegetables or lay out a bedding plan , will know . |
| 17 | The Solaris operating system needs further tuning to handle a full-blown 20-way , 2,190 MIPS Dragon ( UX No 409 ) . |
| 18 | Being a Madonna devotee has always involved having a selective memory . |
| 19 | Rugby league 's media coverage has reached saturation point while rugby union has always struggled to maintain a constant high profile among both the media and the public . |
| 20 | Noreen has always wanted to drive a big American truck . |
| 21 | The pub has always had to tread a difficult tightrope in reconciling its social function , as a ‘ house ’ for the public , with its commercial function as a retail shop . |
| 22 | Deborah feels she is lucky in having a mother who has deliberately tried to encourage a good self-image . |
| 23 | Into our own time , many architectural historians confine themselves to that subject ; it has moreover continued to have a nostalgic appeal to novelists . |
| 24 | Bail conditions appear also to have become a standard practice in public order cases . |
| 25 | But it has also begun to create a corporate culture where some companies have become a kind of economic prison where senior management can legally abuse and ill-treat their employees , and silence any protest with the threat of the sack . |
| 26 | But Japan has also begun to play a major foreign policy role , gaining great influence in the UN , the World Bank — and in the Third World , by virtue of its being the largest aid-giver . |
| 27 | COSE has also agreed to do a plenary-style panel a la UniForum that should attempt a general statement of intent , an update and try to clear up any COSE confusion . |
| 28 | COSE has also agreed to do a plenary-style panel a la Uniforum that should attempt a general statement of intent , an update and hopefully try to clear up the COSE confusion — see back page . |
| 29 | A preliminary study using these molecular techniques has also failed to show a significant increased risk of alcoholic liver disease in individuals who are homozygous or heterozygous for both the PiZ and PiS mutant alleles . |
| 30 | Winter has also tried to introduce a new system of joint consultation , but with disappointing results to date . |