Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 2 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck , and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 3 | It was like hanging on to a wriggly eel . |
| 4 | The young working class in deindustrialising , inner urban areas are seen by the new subcultural theory as caught up in a bitter series of conflicts and contradictions . |
| 5 | Fujitsu Ltd has come out with a new multimedia multiplexer in its DMIX series , one of a series of multiplexers designed for its Network Solution 2000 network architecture : the new E-2570 DMIX has a capacity of 10 data channels and six speech voice channels , and comes between the large capacity E-2570 DMIX and the compact E-2300 series Compact MUX ; Fujitsu expects to sell 5,000 units over three years , starting in June , at a price of $73,000 ) ; the E-2500 series DMIX and E-2300 series Compact MUX were released in September last year and Fujitsu says by the end of last month , sales to 100 companies had been made . |
| 6 | Now the deal looks likely to go through at a whopping $7.5 billion , about $110 a share . |
| 7 | In use , the camera handles rather like a bulky 35mm unit , with a maximum shooting rate of one image every three seconds . |
| 8 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 9 | The imagination does n't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree . |
| 10 | It would be much better to choose , not the level where the genus Euphoria is succeeded suddenly by the totally unrelated genus Amnesia ( as in figure 3.4:1 and 2 on left ) , but within a formation of uniform lithology where , for example , the species Abra cadabra ( which really exists ) Passes insensibly into a descendent species or subspecies by a progressive statistical swing in the unit characters . |
| 11 | Thus the expenditure needs are built up from a whole series of estimates , referring to the many components of Local Government expenditure . |
| 12 | It has been said that they show up as a striking pair with powers of × 12 or more . |
| 13 | Collecting my thoughts I baited up with a fresh squid and cast back out to the same spot , bobbin on the needle and it was back to the bedchair . |
| 14 | ‘ So , ’ he continued , ‘ each pulse of light is made up of a short series of humps and dips — a bit like the water ripples you get when you drop the soap into the bath . |
| 15 | A complete gene is then made up of a whole series of exons , which are actually strung together only when they are eventually read by the ‘ official ’ operating system that translates them into proteins . |
| 16 | Socialist Sweden came out at a hefty $27.10 . |
| 17 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 18 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 19 | Three years ago , it would have easily surpassed its $50–80,000 estimate but there was not a bid in the room , and it was sold afterward for a paltry $25,000 ( £17,850 ) . |
| 20 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 21 | The pattern changed again on the 25th as a strong , cold northwesterly dug in behind a complex series of troughs , the precipitation turning increasingly wintry . |
| 22 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
| 23 | Cover : pulling up through a steady 4g loop in Harry Prew-Smith 's Fouga Magister . |
| 24 | As they finally drove away from the scene , Paddy Mayne was observed to jump out of his jeep , run across to a parked aircraft and place a bomb on the wing . |
| 25 | And me turning about like a drowning fish in a mesh of shadows drawing round . |
| 26 | A highly complex drug made up of a whole series of chemicals with different reaction times , designed to fire particular synapses in the brain itself — to create , if you like , a false landscape of experience . |
| 27 | The Boy does not have that rather hoarse sound that Falla wanted , but sounds merely like a well-trained choirboy. master peter sounds neither servile , which he is at the start , nor terrified , which he should be at the end . |
| 28 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 29 | When lava like this comes to rest or slows down , the ‘ skin ’ piles up against itself , buckling up into a closely-spaced series of pleats . |
| 30 | Baker will miss out on a proposed £80,000 move to Torquay and Pool 's remaining Third Division matches this season . |