Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to go decent with a wooden cross above my head , promise me , Angharad . ‘ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | LANDLORD Roy Tolan has become obsessed with a new woman in his life — a glamorous ghost . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The aircraft had come to rest inverted in a ploughed potato field with the sail and engine on top of the pilot . |
| 12 | One claw is modified to snap shut with a sonic crack capable of stunning its intended prey . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Your stepson has to get used to a whole new family , which is a big shock for him after being an only child . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The SSPCA said it was distressed that an extreme case of animal cruelty has failed due to a procedural error . |
| 20 | Even when he 'd roared full-blooded into a spiny bush in pursuit of a tennis ball , he 'd ignore our gasps and head back for more . |
| 21 | ‘ I think so , ’ she said , straightening in her seat and looking around like someone who 'd fallen asleep on a long journey and awoken in an unfamiliar place . |
| 22 | He 'd shot hand-held at a fifteenth of a second at f4.5 . " |
| 23 | Rohan 's voice seemed to reach Sabine from a great distance . |
| 24 | Apart from the restraint of trade considerations there would seem to be no reason why a contract under which one person undertakes to keep silent on a particular subject should not be enforceable in accordance with its terms . |
| 25 | It can , however , be dangerous insofar as it promotes heat loss : your body is tending to become cold in a cold environment . |
| 26 | As long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else , why should they be made to feel guilty for a little self-indulgence ? |
| 27 | Would you like to borrow Nutty for a few weeks ? |
| 28 | Vietnam will want to get cash from as many foreign countries as possible , to avoid becoming dependent on a single new big brother . |
| 29 | How and why they form is still not known ; all that can be said with certainty is that winds begin to twirl anti-clockwise around a fixed point of steadily diminishing atmospheric pressure , and this circulating system then begins to move , invariably in a westerly direction , its internal pressure steadily falling and the gales inside it picking up speed as it does so . |
| 30 | South Korean chipmakers reacted with relief after the US imposed lower-than-expected final anti-dumping duties on their memory chips imported into the US , Reuter reports from Seoul : ‘ We can say there will be little impact on exports and profit , ’ the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association said ; the final duties range from 0.74% to 7.19% , and were not higher because the US fears becoming over-reliant on a single source — if the increasing tension between North and South Korea hots up further , the US does n't want Cruise missiles going out with half their memory missing because of a chip shortage . |