Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that Peake 's trilogy Titus Groan , Gormenghast and Titus Alone has attracted such a cult following that Glass was apprehensive about doing justice to the novels in the eye of fans . |
| 2 | For its part , the city has made available a site overlooking the Rickmers shipyard and will cover all the costs of creating and equipping a sculpture park . |
| 3 | The present unsatisfactory state of the law relating to VAT could mean that VAT paid by the tenant may not be recoverable , and therefore the tenant should consider amending such a provision to provide that it will only pay VAT on such sums where it is first presented with a valid VAT invoice in the tenant 's name . |
| 4 | Jason Pierce has a rotten throat infection and has been forced to lay out $70 on antibiotics , drummer Jon Mattock has spent half an hour going round the college with a marker pen , adding Spiritualized 's name to the day-glo posters . |
| 5 | The indirect mechanism of action proposed to explain such an effect implicates the sequestration of bile acids or other acidic lipids , such as fatty acids . |
| 6 | NATTA , The Network for Alternative Technology and Technology Assessment , in conjunction with the Open University Technology Policy Group , has initiated such a study aimed at establishing how aware people are of alternative and renewable sources of energy , in general . |
| 7 | These seem to have had their fears that the flood gates holding back university collections are now opening confirmed , as Edinburgh University announced last month that it was proposing to sell a sculpture by Adrian de Vries or a Ruisdael landscape , bequeathed by Sir James Torrie , to help put right a deficit permitted over the last few years by a Treasurer who has since resigned . |
| 8 | ‘ As for this , ’ she said , ‘ I am taking this , my sweet , to show your father who , I feel sure , will not want to let such a thing go unnoticed . ’ |
| 9 | UNLU would not have given such a warning had it not feared how the PLO outside might behave . |
| 10 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 11 | Then might you have seen many a horse running about the field with the saddle under his belly , and many a horseman in evil plight upon the ground . |
| 12 | Not only were most holdings too small to provide much work for hired labour , but the big villages that would have housed such a workforce did not exist . |
| 13 | The Intelligence Corps instructor who had taught him the trade would have had such a lock open with one twist but Maxim was out of practice and the lock was old and arthritic . |
| 14 | Rarely can a goalkeeper have had such an incentive to shut out a former club than Rovers ' Bobby Mimms has at Ewood Park this afternoon . |
| 15 | She must have spent half an hour making herself up . |
| 16 | ‘ I would never have believed such a place existed , ’ she continued , glancing round the cave . |
| 17 | The sense of injustice created by such a system would inevitably work against its deterrent effectiveness ( Beccaria always acknowledged the importance of consent in producing compliance ; it is difficult to imagine how his version of the social contract would have allowed such a system to operate ) . |
| 18 | There are now strong pressures to extend the duration of CVRs to cover the whole of any flight , though it remains to be seen how long it will take to have such a standard accepted . |
| 19 | I 'd have to spend half an hour calming Dawn down after these attacks . |
| 20 | For Sam Wanamaker aims to make this an opportunity to furnish the International Globe Centre with work by British craftspeople , while recreating the theatre using 17th century techniques . |
| 21 | Who cares where they put the Channel Tunnel terminal when what really makes you cross is having to travel half an hour to find a park in which our kids can play — except , that is , if your street is in the line of blight ? |
| 22 | Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see . |
| 23 | Yes but as I 've I 've seen many a bus coming towards Norwood Gardens goes round the little and back out again . |
| 24 | And the wise old bird , who had seen many a bully brought low in the twenty years since he was hatched , clicked his beak and closed his eyes . |
| 25 | I 'm afraid I ca n't stop long ’ , or leave them with ‘ Well , I must go ; I 've got such a lot to do , . |
| 26 | I 'm sure that 's why I never win anything , I 've got such an intent to win when I ever I enter a competition , like I du n no . |
| 27 | On the criteria we 've been talking about today , so find yourself a partner that you have n't worked with today somebody erm if you go in the same group that Kathy 's in because then if it comes up to four o'clock Kathy wants to go then you can be the other partner you 've got half an hour to put on one sheet of paper clearly and concisely what we 've done on communications . |
| 28 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 29 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 30 | You 've had half an hour to think up another excuse , and — ’ |