Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We support a separate funding council , although we should prefer to see that under a Scottish Parliament . |
| 2 | I want to go decent with a wooden cross above my head , promise me , Angharad . ‘ |
| 3 | In their longitudinal study , they were surprised how many of the women who had been considered to have a supportive marital relationship when first interviewed became depressed after a later crisis . |
| 4 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 5 | On 1 September 1934 he hit five goals against Cardiff City and only Peter Simpson has bettered that in a single match for us . |
| 6 | Over the years Aurigny has honed this to a fine art , and new pilots have to work hard to get up to the requisite standard . |
| 7 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 8 | Even the Tech , which has trumpeted the fact that it has pushed hard for a greater training element , has only been enabl able to include such elements as health and safety , job search , an enhancement of skills relevant to the job that is being done . |
| 9 | What it has still largely ignored are the psychological repercussions , both of the realisation that a couple can not conceive — the guilt , the anger , the envy of others — and of the effects of keeping hope alive by a long series of treatments . |
| 10 | Indeed , some appear more environmentally aware than their parents , although perhaps not surprisingly considering that the new national curriculum — recognising the importance of an environmental education — has adopted this as a cross-curricular theme for all age groups . |
| 11 | Counterposed to this has been an anti-scientific trend which , disturbed by the alienation and military disasters of industrialism , has dreamed either of a pastoral world of decent craftsmen in harmony with nature or posed the nightmare of dystopias . |
| 12 | The crystalline regions are held together sideways by hydroxyls which have got rid of all their attached water molecules and once the system has locked solid into a regular crystal , the interstices of the crystal become inaccessible to water . |
| 13 | it may well be that you 'll say well , we want to put these in a specific order |
| 14 | is a filter function representing smearing due to a finite beam size , and is the conformal time , where a(t) is the cosmological scale factor . |
| 15 | Now if you want to do this in a proper way , then you do it in a proper way . |
| 16 | LANDLORD Roy Tolan has become obsessed with a new woman in his life — a glamorous ghost . |
| 17 | The final scene , with its tear-jerking hospital-bed supplications for forgiveness , is neither more nor less than the ‘ I love you ’ , ‘ I love you too Momma ’ curtain-line that has become mandatory in a thousand soap operas . |
| 18 | These are three simple and fairly obvious examples of protective devices with a topic that did not of itself require careful handling , but when at the end of the lesson they chose to extend their interest in hospitals in the future to ‘ finding a cure for cancer ’ quite suddenly the subject-matter has become more of a delicate one , with some taboos attached for both the pupils and the adults watching the lesson . |
| 19 | It has created a world of mobility : of rapid and constant change , with attention focused mainly on novelty or utility — a world eager to break free from tradition which has become irrelevant to a restless , fast-moving age . |
| 20 | Revusky ( 1971 , 1977 ) has developed an account of the role of interference effects in associative learning that has proved applicable to a wide range of phenomena . |
| 21 | The aircraft had come to rest inverted in a ploughed potato field with the sail and engine on top of the pilot . |
| 22 | One claw is modified to snap shut with a sonic crack capable of stunning its intended prey . |
| 23 | In particular , purchase allows the possibility ( which borrowing rules out ) of in-house use of materials , which may be quite heavy ( although Brown also comments that in some university libraries 70% of the stock has remained unused over a three-year period ) . |
| 24 | The graph also gives an economical means of representing a large amount of information in an implicit and flexible format , and provides a record of the input information should further checking become necessary at a later stage . |
| 25 | There is often a throbbing headache which is made worse by noise , light or jarring movement , and the patient just wants to lie still in a darkened room , well covered up . |
| 26 | Conflict : To avoid such losses the securities firm may seek to place these at a suitable price in other parts of the conglomerate structure — perhaps in the trust accounts of the commercial bank . |
| 27 | Your stepson has to get used to a whole new family , which is a big shock for him after being an only child . |
| 28 | One of the most successful jet airliners in the world , production of the 707 , in its E–3 AWACS form , has ended due to a stagnant order book . |
| 29 | Those of us who remember the horrid cruelties applied to Frank Williams in the days when he was generally considered ‘ Wanker Williams ’ , an outsider with no chance to make good , can remember how it felt for Emerson to climb down off his mountain and to try to make good in a changing and by then wholly different world . |
| 30 | If you want to make this into a big project , collect two or three different sorts ( 20 of each ) , but keep them in separate pots . |