Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Wickramasinghe , xenon at 40 atmospheres should provide a fivefold improvement in resolution over a water-coupled instrument . |
| 2 | Not only must you keep an almost minute by minute diary of what you are doing and why , but once you have accumulated all the information you must then analyse it . |
| 3 | From the point of view of historians this can only mean that training must be broadened and will need to include a heavily element of information technology ( Greenstein 1993 ; Schürer 1993 ) . |
| 4 | If I can wave to that group of kids and they go home and talk about it , fantastic , or if I can just sign a measly bit of paper for a kid and he 's so stunned he ca n't talk , that really brings home to me what I am doing it for : because it really makes me feel good . ’ |
| 5 | Karoly Grosz , the outgoing general secretary , cut a lonely figure as he bowed out , dropping hints that in future he would be taking a back seat in politics . |
| 6 | In previous years this was how the BBC treated the competition , but gradually , with its revamped Sunday Grandstand , cricket took a back seat to free-fall dominoes and the like . |
| 7 | In previous years this was how the BBC treated the competition , but gradually , with its revamped Sunday Grandstand , cricket took a back seat to free-fall dominoes and the like . |
| 8 | The speculation follows a mildly tongue in cheek piece by Bill Brooker in the journal of the Scottish Mountaineering Club — the august guardians of Munro 's Tables . |