Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah but that 's the devil to try and coordinate that with an orchestra when you 're at the other end |
| 2 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 3 | Their bodies lay crushed for an hour before they were dug out and it was too late to save them , rescuers said last night . |
| 4 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 5 | The executive Commission welcomed Mr Clinton 's commitment to agreeing a GATT world trade deal , but coupled this with a warning that any recourse to protectionism to spark economic recovery could lead to disaster . |
| 6 | It will build this on a ledge if one is conveniently available , but it is perfectly capable of fixing the nest to a vertical or even an overhanging wall of rock . |
| 7 | you know , er briefly er a amend er on to using this as a backcloth as it were . |
| 8 | It became clear in an instant that they had found the paso . |
| 9 | A pregnant employee will be given this by a doctor or midwife . |
| 10 | The campaign relies on a provision in the Water Resources Act 1991 , under which company directors are deemed guilty of an offence if their company causes pollution with their " consent or connivance " or if it is " attributable to any neglect " on their part . |
| 11 | His voice mimicked that of an aristocrat and Kate laughed . |
| 12 | Maybe I did fall asleep for a moment or two when I shut my eyes hoping to enter my dream again . |
| 13 | She did not count this as a master and servant situation , yet she did n't dare to presume too far . |
| 14 | Fly high on a wing and a prayer : Simon Calder gives 10 commandments for making the most of US unlimited airpasses |
| 15 | She blinked rapidly now ; then , her face becoming suffused with an anger that seemed to send out rays of heat towards him , she cried , ‘ Yes , I hear you . |
| 16 | Its green eyes caught light for a moment as it peered up at Doyle , then it had raced away into the night , a sleek , dark shape , perturbed by the presence of furtive human life on its territory . |
| 17 | She amplifies this in a way that is helpful to the teacher by explaining that the term is used to describe the total group of children whose vision is affected by impairments in seeing , irrespective of the nature or extent of these . |
| 18 | That I grow bored after an hour or two . |
| 19 | On the same wall , Ken Palmer added Gus Honeybun , E5 6b , starting 10ft right of False Gods , climbing left to a peg and finishing past two more . |
| 20 | A person with HIV might fall ill with an infection or condition not on the CDC list , and they might be very ill indeed , but they would not necessarily have AIDS . |
| 21 | Renault 's new front-drive , 1.2-litre , one-box baby looks confident in a way that small cars seldom do ; it 's cute without being jokey , radical without being controversial . |
| 22 | These grow unimpeded for a while but the leading edges eventually collide with others and growth rates are altered . |
| 23 | The idea that drinking nablabs was a seriously smart thing to do ant that hordes or women would subsequently fall at one 's feet probably looked great on a storyboard but it failed to impress the punters . |
| 24 | My work , however , looks better in a home than a gallery , being fairly small and personal . |
| 25 | Those clergy earn £11,230 , which includes the community charge , plus a rent-free house , which looks more of a bargain than it is since , as Chrysogon Bamber , a member of the Bishop 's Council points out , ‘ If they 're living in a vicarage , then they 're not buying a house like everyone else ’ . |
| 26 | In almost every respect , they posed less of a menace than the civil and racial violence which he advocated and assisted as Mosley 's Director of Propaganda . |
| 27 | The trade unions ' ‘ golden formula ’ of action ‘ in furtherance of a trade dispute ’ looks weaker as a protection than it did . |
| 28 | In addition French ( 1986b ) found that various characteristics which go against the stereotyped image of the physiotherapist are stigmatised by that profession ; for example , to be very overweight was considered more of a barrier than blindness or needing to use a wheelchair . |
| 29 | Examination of election propaganda before the 1930 ‘ breakthrough ’ poll has indicated that attacks on Jews provided more of a background than a main theme , and it appears that Hitler 's speeches tended not to tackle the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , especially if dealing with an upper middle-class audience . |
| 30 | Although in ‘ The Outsiders ’ he has more of a group and social life as he spends most of his time with friends or his brothers . |