Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the surviving scores provide little help to a modern impresario trying to figure out whom to hire . |
| 2 | It seems more reasonable to anticipate a response to a formal written instrument , especially one which may have adverse consequences on a third State , and thus to regard lack of response as acceptance of that agreement , than it is to demand early protest to an emergent rule of customary international law . |
| 3 | The sword was later recovered from a long forgotten underground lair by a combined expedition of Dwarfs and Men . |
| 4 | In the absence of heterogeneous nucleation or granule coalescence , and ensemble of 0.25-µm granules should have a crystallization half-life of more than 1,000 yr at 30 °C , whereas bulk samples of the polymer quenched to 30 °C from the melt typically crystallize within a few minutes . |
| 5 | As noted earlier , the findings reported here flow from an international comparative research programme that has been sustained over a seven-year period , beginning in 1983 . |
| 6 | Langstone and Portsmouth harbours best bet for a few flounder , with Eastern Roadd , Porchester and the Oyster Beds top areas . |
| 7 | The basic salaries paid to executives relocated abroad depend to a certain degree on which countries are involved . |
| 8 | Should the dialectic process ideally lead to a simple merging , so that the views of men and women on any matter will normally be indistinguishable ? |
| 9 | He was in the middle of a delicious dream where he had leaped right smack into a big , fat flock of gawking , squawking mallards when … |
| 10 | But er everybody thinks oh you 're going away stay in a nice hotel . |
| 11 | Luke 's Gospel and Acts both speak of a certain ‘ Judas of James ’ , which is usually translated as ‘ Judas , son of James ’ . |
| 12 | Higher prices from any of the above sources put upward pressure on pay ; higher pay deals then lead to a further round of prices rises and so it goes on . |
| 13 | The general public might have been disappointed but they needed only refer to a contemporary poem then available : |
| 14 | The Austrian pulled away further with a third to Hunt 's fifth in Sweden to stretch hi lead to a mammoth 47 points . |
| 15 | Between January 1940 and June 1941 he broadcast no fewer than nine major speeches , demonstrating his unshakeable confidence , strengthening morale , and giving further hope for an early end to the war . |
| 16 | Has more yellow on bill than smaller Bewick 's Swan , reaching below nostril at an acute angle . |
| 17 | The mortises for the laths are cut slightly undersize with a round front edge so that a slight taper is planed on the laths for a good wedge fit . |
| 18 | — O the Pleasure of counting melancholly Clock by a snoring Husband ! — But now , Sister , you shall see how handsomely , being a well-bred Man , he will beg my Pardon . |
| 19 | For example , Standard English does not distinguish between do as a main verb and as an auxiliary verb : He did it , did he ? |
| 20 | For Labour , Mr Donald Dewar said the figures did not amount to a real increase and took no account of cuts in local authority spending in recent years . |
| 21 | But singing songs and letter writing , though powerful antidotes to homesickness , did not amount to a decent education , as Anna Essinger was well aware . |
| 22 | Therefore , so far as the original shareholders were concerned , clause 3 of the shareholders ' agreement did not amount to an unlawful fetter on the company 's statutory power to increase its share capital ; it was simply a personal agreement outside the articles between the shareholders who executed it about how they would exercise their voting rights in relation to the creation or issue of shares , and did not purport to bind future shareholders . |
| 23 | These fragmentary observations — some of them , like the contrast between government and administration , misleading — clearly do not amount to a systematic theory of the political transition from capitalist to socialist society , or of the eventual nature of a socialist political system . |
| 24 | The corporation was allowed no say in an authoritative international arena in its own demise . |
| 25 | It is conceivable that the modest groundmass variations ( A–D ) derived by and , on the scale of a thin section , reflect uncertainties inherent in their technique , in which case a ‘ trend ’ would represent only scatter about an average composition . |
| 26 | The strong correlation between characterization and prenominal position , and " occasion " use and postnominal position also falls naturally into place , as well as the fact that it does not amount to a complete correspondence . |
| 27 | Should the local authority refuse to initiate formal proceedings for some reason , perhaps because they are of the opinion that the odour does not amount to a statutory nuisance or they themselves are causing the offending odour , then an individual complainant may himself take summary action under s.99 of the Public Health Act 1936 , ( see Chapter 3 ) but may not bring proceedings in the High Court . |
| 28 | Come quickly think of a decent question . |
| 29 | The kiss and branding also appear in a fifteenth-century Italian novella . |
| 30 | If the Magistrates ' Court is satisfied that the odour complained of does indeed amount to a statutory nuisance , a nuisance order must be granted for one or both the following purposes : |