Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drexel successfully pioneered a mezzanine layer of financing between equity and bank debt for medium-sized American companies . |
| 2 | In my view , however , therein lies its strength ; it is a programme that can be relied on to give an unvarnished account of the proceedings of the House and its committees ; it has been called a mini-Hansard . |
| 3 | The recognised or nominal leaders of such groups may be relied on to produce an initial list of individuals who are presumed to have power in community affairs ( leaders ) . |
| 4 | Bitterly disappointed , Harrison abandoned medical reform , but his ideas lived on to provide a solid basis for future important developments , which culminated in the Medical Act of 1858 . |
| 5 | He goes on to give a splendid example of the thing he has in mind , when an old Muslim tribesman went on urging a drug-addicted English hippy to ‘ pray to Jesus the Messiah ’ , until he was converted and delivered . |
| 6 | The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 7 | She goes on to make a new life in Hampshire with Harry still remaining ignorant of her great change and her children , of which she is extremely fond , remaining unaffected . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the speaker N uses a Creole obscenity in line 8 , but goes on to make an ironic comment on Brenda 's request in London English ; but this overlaps with Brenda 's next turn , which this time is an ironic comment on N 's behaviour , and is in Creole . |
| 9 | The chapter examines different theories of stratification and then goes on to present a full account of the facts of class inequality according to income , wealth , and so on . |
| 10 | Starting with the creation of the German night fighter force the author makes good use of eyewitness accounts from former Luftwaffe pilots , and goes on to portray a vivid account of what life was like serving on a night fighter unit . |
| 11 | Throughout the 1980s the expanding prison population caused Home Office administrators to question how long it would be possible to go on supplying an unlimited number of places , at enormous cost , for however many convicted or remand prisoners were sent to them by the courts . |
| 12 | This means that , as we continue to diet , we must reduce calorie intake a little more in order to go on achieving a satisfactory rate of weight loss . |
| 13 | Vengsarkar was to go on to complete a successful series , scoring 320 runs in the five Tests at an average of 35.56 . |
| 14 | Those who know better will not rest contented with such a meagre peep of a lake so singularly grand , but will round the hill rather more than another mile to the west , and when the dark lake is full in view , sit down to drink a long look from that favourable point of view . |
| 15 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 16 | And now , in these last few days , he had watched its golden leaves fluttering down to form a glowing carpet at its foot , as the autumn winds tossed the great boughs this way and that . |
| 17 | Which is all very well , but nobody 's phoning in to accept a silly offer . |
| 18 | We 're not going to make anything right this minute , cos first of all we 're going to sit down have a nice cup of tea and Christopher 's going to read to me , so we 're going to get that out of the way before the excitement thing happens |
| 19 | Those parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united as an association of freely trading and co-operating independent states must take advantage of this breathing-space to gather together to form a common front . |
| 20 | When Eric Liddell could wish his rivals good luck before grinding them into the track , and a National Hunt jockey would slow down to help a fellow rider back into the saddle . |
| 21 | Not to mention the profit being made by private clinics when rich girls are flown in to have an artificial hymen put in so that the rituals of defloration may continue . |
| 22 | I am grateful to our member Vic Smith for stepping in to fill a vacant gap in April . |
| 23 | Oil producing seeds pressed together produce a solid cake that animals — particularly cattle — can eat . |
| 24 | The question was whether , in the harsher climate of the late 1970s and early 1980s , the fragments could be welded together to form a new force in British politics . |
| 25 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 26 | Apart from quartz , silicon and oxygen combine together to form an atomic building-block known as the silicon tetrahedron , with a single atom of silica surrounded by four atoms of oxygen . |
| 27 | The three different unit sizes can be arranged together to form a natural stone effect . |
| 28 | When dry , rub down to provide a smooth surface for painting . |
| 29 | ALTHOUGH it was described in the 19th century as ‘ a land without music ’ , Britain has latterly become a musical powerhouse , particularly rich in its orchestras . |
| 30 | Knight , 30 , may not have enjoyed the success Grobbelaar has , but his career has rarely had a dull moment since he signed as a 14-year-old schoolboy when Ian St John was manager . |