Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet subsequent projects revealed an almost unerring instinct for commercial blackspots . |
| 2 | The satellites revealed a rather remarkable feature in the Antarctic sea ice in that there are persistent open water areas even in the middle of winter when the area should be frozen over , the atmosphere is cold enough to freeze the ocean and yet , in these areas , the ice does not form . |
| 3 | A nonlinear Q s - L relationship may reduce the range of implied solar changes before 1900 , but there is no evidence available at present to support a more complex relationship than assumed here . |
| 4 | This is a rare opportunity to acquire a most valuable asset . ’ |
| 5 | In the very same week as Lady Mary Deverill was being laid to her final rest in the family churchyard at Brougham , across the Atlantic Ocean , in the statue packed graveyard of the Church of St Peter and St Paul , Westfield , Boston , Massachusetts , the recently bereaved Patrick Milligan entertained a very different hope from the father of the little girl in England . |
| 6 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 7 | I believe that the general practitioners find a problem list more informative ( although I have never investigated this formally ) and that the copy letters in the notes make a more useful case summary than the handwritten record . |
| 8 | The stammer fitted Marlowe 's embarrassment and Bernard got a very good press . |
| 9 | An anonymous US official cited by several agencies on Dec. 27 said that the increased number of troops by now present made a more aggressive approach possible . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is because a predator is able to find and eat relatively large numbers of aposematic prey in a short space of time , and that the high initial rate of feeding produces a more powerful reinforcement than a greater number of prey eaten over a longer period . |
| 11 | Early man 's relationship with the birds offers a fairly obvious route to a possible understanding of this . |
| 12 | BRITISH riders made a highly satisfying start to the Volvo World Cup Final in the warm-up competitions , though pride of place went to an expatriate , Lesley McNaught-Mandli , who now lives in and rides for Switzerland . |
| 13 | Hand in hand with this measure goes an equally bold re-focusing of Labour 's strategy concerning marginal constituencies . |
| 14 | Bluster about morning hate and advice to go back to Adolph got a maddeningly cool reply . |
| 15 | These texts are held on computer to enable a more scientific approach to the study of the language than has been possible up to now . |
| 16 | At Leeds the play made a very direct contact with the audience . |
| 17 | Yet in everyday terms most of us have little difficulty using a quite specific meaning of the term ‘ politics ’ seeing elections , party competition , parliamentary majorities and the composition and deliberations of cabinets and parliaments as the heart of British politics . |
| 18 | On the one occasion Southampton did threaten after Leeds scored Kelly made a very timely interception as one of the Southampton forwards beared down on goals . |
| 19 | Three years ago , Sarah became a fully qualified solicitor . |
| 20 | The model obtained by combining rational expectations and the simple natural rate hypothesis produces a particularly dramatic policy conclusion , and one which gave rational expectations some initial notoriety , for it suggested that the Keynesian approach to macroeconomic policy which governments in many countries had adopted after the Second World War was at best unnecessary and at worst harmful . |
| 21 | Other woodworkers will of course make a more detailed examination ; if only to discover the methods of construction . |
| 22 | Three questions were asked about life and afterlife in the voluntary sector , and the response produced a strikingly confused portrait . |
| 23 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
| 24 | Like its predecessor , Another Lonely Londoner offers a distinctly bittersweet account of the immigrant experience , in which the racism and the shitty jobs and housing are balanced by the excitement of living in a major metropolis with its siren promise of one day making it big . |
| 25 | Social work 's function constitutes a relatively coercive form of social control , supporting the role of the family , the work ethic , and obedience to the law . |
| 26 | The most notorious tale in English literature made an agonizingly slow start ( at least for those of us in the seedier section of the viewing public ) . |
| 27 | In men undergoing elective inguinal hernia repair a very detailed account of what might go wrong does not increase patient anxiety significantly and has the advantage of allowing patients a fully informed choice before they consent to surgery , thus reducing the potential for subsequent litigation . |
| 28 | The distinction appeared to be maintainable while the courts applied a very limited form of review . |
| 29 | Agriculture has a more important role in the Northern Ireland economy than it has in the United Kingdom economy as a whole . |
| 30 | Harris Corp has a very minor presence in Japan , selling primarily chips through distributors . |