Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the expertise it has developed serves a much wider geographical area than the West Midlands , where it is based . |
| 2 | ‘ The manning hours at Hartlepool had to be reduced as we are trying to cut the amount of money that the tax payer has to find to run a socially necessary railway . |
| 3 | This works fairly well , but many people will consider that the time has come to consider a more rigid mounting . |
| 4 | In the world of manuscripts , ‘ miniature ’ has come to have a rather puzzling significance . |
| 5 | ‘ Biogeography is a field of study which has come to assume a slightly different meaning for different disciplines . |
| 6 | The growth of mail-order suppliers ( particularly for central heating ) and of do-it-yourself ‘ superstores ’ has made buying a less daunting task — no longer need the amateur feel embarrassed about not knowing exactly what he or she is looking for . |
| 7 | And to make a successful television career , Sue Lawley has had to tread a very careful path of being acceptable ( mainly to men ) as both a woman and a ‘ professional ’ . |
| 8 | This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units . |
| 9 | Energy conservation policy as pursued in the UK ( eg pricing policy , loft insulation grants and various publicity campaigns ) has tended to embody a relatively passive philosophy , relying on the consumer to respond appropriately . |
| 10 | Santa Cruz has to date kept a very low profile in Japan , although it has had a product available on NEC 9800 series personal computers for some years . |
| 11 | The second change is the increasing differentiation among universities in terms of funding , based initially on surveys of research performance , but now becoming widened to include a much broader range of performance indicators . |
| 12 | In fact , the 1959 Act has worked to secure a very large measure of freedom in Britain for the written word . |
| 13 | There are reasons , therefore , why Britain might be expected to have had a somewhat higher than average share of its workforce in manufacturing industry . |
| 14 | In many ways attitudes and policies at the hospital appear to have followed a fairly typical course , with model behavioural regimes giving way to mass custody . |
| 15 | Governments appear to have drawn a purely tactical conclusion from the ERM 's ordeal : never underestimate the strength of the financial markets . |
| 16 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 17 | CANADIAN researchers have found that women who smoke tend to have a more masculine body with fat around the stomach , rather than hips , caused by changes in hormone balance . |
| 18 | The other day I came to work wearing a rather sharp tie and somebody said it looked as if it had been designed by somebody with ‘ special needs ’ . |
| 19 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 20 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
| 21 | His meticulous performance slightly surprised her ; there had been moments when they seemed to have achieved a more casual contact , and he could n't be still trying to impress . |
| 22 | After about 45 minutes we noticed that the Post Office official , seated in the bucket seat across the fuselage from Dick and me , seemed to have turned a rather sickly white , and he even tried to stand up quickly despite his safety belt . |
| 23 | Even the Greatest himself , Cassius Clay , alias Muhammed Ali , who seemed to have had a highly successful career during which a minimal number of punches were landed to his head , has suffered a brain condition which it is difficult to believe is unconnected with his trade . |
| 24 | I seemed to have got a significantly better offer on this . |
| 25 | ALTHOUGH the Hungarian restaurants in which I ate did achieve a far higher standard than anything I encountered in Prague , almost all had in common a poor sense of presentation and good ingredients were often spoiled by ignorance and negligence . |
| 26 | Joseph Needham 's only indexed reference to dreaming in ancient China is tantalizingly brief : Oneiromancy , or prognostication by dreams , was also practised in China , as in most ancient civilisations , though it can hardly be said to have taken a very important place there . |
| 27 | I have had to try to explain a rather sophisticated argument : last year their pensions were increased by more than 10 per cent. , when the increase in the cost of living was lower . |
| 28 | The Palisade units produced by Forest Fencing are individually machine turned to give a very neat appearance . |
| 29 | No visitor can claim to have had a totally Swiss experience until he or she has travelled on one of the many cogwheel railways that whisk the traveller from ground level to the heights . |
| 30 | And yet to the world at large he claimed to have conducted a most detailed investigation into the whole matter , sufficient to enable him to arrive at an informed judgement that British policy remained correct . |