Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One primary school head teacher in whose school pilot testing of pupils was carried out has expressed a willingness to ‘ break the law unless the tests are drastically changed ’ and another school 's head ( probably illegally ) later suspended the tests in the face of parents ' objections . |
| 2 | But the problem with these groups is not that they 're wimps , but that they 're runts ; not that they 're vulnerable or soppy , but that they 're flimsy , What 's happened is that the perfectly valiant and appropriate refusal to grow up has become a refusal to grow , musically — to take on space , drift , experiment . |
| 3 | Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , noted that the weather the tourists have experienced here has changed a number of perceptions of Fijian rugby . |
| 4 | We accept that the Minister has honoured his commitment ; he has brought forward powers to establish a funding council . |
| 5 | Over the years , Carry On has become a cult . |
| 6 | Is it , is that because the th the house you live in 's got a lot of green space round it ? |
| 7 | ( 1 ) incomplete adaptation — since not all features of JC would be sufficiently salient to be " noticeable " for the purposes of adaptation , some of these would " slip through " and would fail to be adapted ( 2 ) inconsistency — due to possible learning or memory constraints , or perhaps for other reasons not well understood , some adaptations would be made haphazardly , so that the same item might appear sometimes in its LE variant , sometimes in its JC form ( 3 ) misadaptation — where the systems of JC and LE differ in such a way that adapting correctly requires recognising a contrast that exists in JC but not in LE , we would expect LE speakers to " get it wrong " some of the time , creating forms which are neither the target ( JC ) nor LE . |
| 8 | Throwing up slides to make a point here , and stepping aside from the podium to develop a theme there , he exuded great confidence in the future of the great corporation . |
| 9 | Every watch that comes on has to do a drill . |
| 10 | Planning also helps to produce a mechanism for coping with change and focuses attention and effort on key issues . |