Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Routine thinking throws up no ideas about how to work on or round or against a seemingly impossible situation — which reaffirms powerlessness . |
| 2 | IT DIDN'T. 1988 is widely perceived as Reading 's nadir , poorly attended and with a woefully average line-up , even by Reading 's by now hopeless standards . |
| 3 | I would n't describe Rattle 's treatment as in any way unfeeling , merely that the various strands are shaped and honed with an unusual sensitivity to detail but at a relatively low emotional temperature . |
| 4 | George carefully positioned the old bear crossed and in a delightfully laid-back , almost human repose . |
| 5 | For one brief moment he had thought it was Jenny , absurdly garbed and with a ridiculously short haircut . |
| 6 | He had always been confident that Fibres would survive even during its darkest days : ‘ Parts of our business are volatile and people are used to reacting quickly and decisively — that is what we had to do but on a very big scale and at very considerable cost . ’ |
| 7 | In general they did not seek harsh retributory sentences once order had been restored and in a surprisingly large number of cases actually went some way towards meeting the wishes of the crowd by doing something to encourage a lowering of prices and initiating or participating in relief measures . |
| 8 | This debate is about how we will respond and in a very real sense , it 's about the future of the whole trade union movement in Britain . |
| 9 | At the beginning of the third stage intra-EC exchange rates are to be fixed and after a relatively short period the ECU will replace member countries ' currencies as the Community 's sole currency . |
| 10 | I would say rather that , both despite and because of the obvious and considerable differences , post/modernism is helping us to understand again what the early modern period already knew but in a quite different form : identity is essentially informed by what it is not . |