Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aerial surveys can achieve the same thing , although the maps so obtained cover a smaller area . |
| 2 | While it brings a warm glow of a job well done ( and , perhaps , the thought that a happy subscriber is more likely to keep on subscribing ) answering such queries personally does leave a nagging worry . |
| 3 | Subsequent investigators have attempted to read deep , allegorical , psychological , and even transcendental meanings into the book ; it is more likely that Stoker merely intended to write a popular horror story by taking an ancient legend , placing it in a contemporary setting , and garnishing his tale with blood , thunder , and damsels in distress . |
| 4 | The Club obviously preferred to have a public supply but this did not seem easy to arrange for the Minutes frequently talk about ‘ bringing pressure to bear on the Water Companies ’ . |
| 5 | Because it is an interlocutory judgement it is usually heard before a master of the High Court , and a defendant only has to show a good arguable case for the plaintiff 's application to fail . |
| 6 | But such organizations generally prefer to keep a low profile as they peddle Third World prostitution — hoping to attract the attention only of potential customers . |
| 7 | Barratt soon made tubbing a semi-mechanical process though the dross still had to be scraped off at regular intervals ( perhaps for further jigging ) , and also the copper ore for further concentration . |
| 8 | Because of these difficulties and the commercial desire that once a company is to be sold its sale should be completed as soon as possible , the parties usually try to have a simultaneous signing and completion . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Boosey still managed to play a good tune in the six months to June with profits up 10 per cent higher to £1.4 million . |
| 10 | Although planning authorities are urged to consider the differential effects of in-town and out-of-town developments , the guidance studiously avoids giving a clear indication of the shopping patterns to be favoured in future . |
| 11 | In October 1989 the opposition unsuccessfully attempted to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the affair . |
| 12 | The curriculum in secondary schools also began to take a predictable shape , mathematics , English , RE and PE for all plus a ‘ choice ’ from six option columns . |
| 13 | The IDB 's Trade Fair programme also aims to visit a balanced mixture of major UK and European exhibitions , with IDB group stands being set up for the Northern Ireland companies taking part . |
| 14 | Working-class political parties also came to serve a useful integrative function for monopoly capital . |
| 15 | The club also wants to develop a social side , and once established it intends to organise trips and holidays for members . |
| 16 | The fact that the Rousset copyist must have had access to some manuscript source for Eckard now lost lends a certain credence to the hypothesis that the pieces on pp.go and 92 may be by him . |
| 17 | Denied the comfortable illusion that the League could restrain aggression without killing people , pacifists now had to face a harsh choice . |
| 18 | The president now plans to hold a nationwide opinion poll on who should rule the country , although it will have no legal validity . |
| 19 | Last time out the Michael Stoute-trained colt narrowly missed landing a Listed race at Chester , being headed in the final strides by Nassma . |
| 20 | Growers here had expected a bumper season . |
| 21 | MV The poet here has acquired a political status because of our peculiar history . |
| 22 | But more than this , we have a vivid sense of the loneliness of the human observer , set apart from his surroundings , and of " a mind energetically stretching to subdue a dazzling experience outside the self in a way that has innumerable counterparts elsewhere in Conrad " . |
| 23 | Their concerns now became far more parochial and ethnic , and party considerations undoubtedly began to play a greater part . |
| 24 | But Wycombe almost snatched a dramatic , last-gasp equaliser when Simon Hutchinson 's cross flew across the face of the goal and Keith Scott fractionally failed to get a decisive touch . |
| 25 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 26 | Research is showing that many animals actually do possess a sixth sense but this is a natural " supersense " , rather than anything supernatural . |
| 27 | Sarah just wanted to type a little letter . |
| 28 | If country banks were a product of the latter half of the eighteenth century , country banking functionally defined has a longer history , despite the fact that only a dozen institutions formally known as banks were in existence before 1750 . |
| 29 | We could stop after one pass through the data , but we can also repeat the running three-median procedure on the values just smoothed to produce a smoother result . |
| 30 | Mostly musicians spend their time jerking off in front of others and guitar and bass-playing readers are basically fans of the idea of that , but the truth is that it 's all individual — every neck on every guitar just has to feel a certain way . |