Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb base] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dropping litter might also be linked with the kind of ceremonial spitting and pee-ing that is a demonstration of claim of territory ( old men sitting on bench at village square or park etc. seem to spit a lot/ the marvellous wide-astride attitude of the countryside pee-er claiming that bit of ground as his for that glorious moment — I am aware it 's different for ladies , but maybe the same mentally , given that fright of discovering be removed ! ) . |
| 2 | Candidates also have to choose a paper in one of these two areas : the Philosophy , Nature and Practice of Geography or the United Kingdom and France . |
| 3 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 4 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 5 | Clients often expect to make a mixture of appointments , some internally and some from outside their organisation . |
| 6 | Glider designers sometimes choose to fit a tail-skid rather than a wheel for simplicity and cheapness , saying quite rightly that they offer a little less drag . |
| 7 | Institutions thus have to make a judgement as to what liquidity ratio is best — one that is neither too high nor too low . |
| 8 | Some parents only want to adopt a child of two black parents , that is of African , Afro-Caribbean or Asian origin . |
| 9 | Right-handed males who are very susceptible to hypnosis also seem to show a preference for using the right hemisphere of the brain — the side associated with imaginative rather than analytical skills . |
| 10 | Parsers frequently fail to parse a sentence , either because the words in the sentence are not stored in the lexicon or because the grammar available to the program is unable to handle a particular grammatical construction . |
| 11 | If the Church Commissioners subsequently agree to seal a Declaration of Redundancy , advice is sought on the future of the building from the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches , a national body which was set up under the Pastoral Measure . |
| 12 | The workers merely wish to clear a backlog of clients before the afternoon session begins . |
| 13 | A few glasses of wine also seem to justify a splurge on the main dishes , and may make it harder to say no when the orders for dessert come round . |
| 14 | Police searching for the remains of a woman who went missing twenty years ago have recovered a body . |
| 15 | The negative consequence , however , is that Christians there have developed a ghetto mentality that can no longer think in terms of mission , but only survival . |
| 16 | Few dogs actively appear to enjoy a visit to the vet , but conversely , even fewer normally become aggressive on routine visits if they are not in pain . |
| 17 | ‘ I can easily understand how people can see seals as dewy-eyed little things but if you 're a fisherman who has just had 200 creels robbed and you have n't even made enough money to pay for your fuel never mind make a living , you would view them differently . |
| 18 | Such structures also seem to provide a kind of elementary momentum in periods where a discipline is in the doldrums , and not a great deal is happening at the research level . |
| 19 | ‘ All Europe stands on a threshold — and we Europeans now have to make a choice . |
| 20 | The mobile teams often help establish a village health committee , which will continue the information drive through the distribution of KOMIKs , a comic-strip devised and produced by SIDT . |
| 21 | These difficulties often occur following a stroke , leaving the capacity to understand less damaged , but speaking and sometimes reading impaired . |
| 22 | The powers-that-be at the BBC really need to have a rethink . |
| 23 | Whether broad whalebacks or jagged knife-edges , ridges rarely fail to put a spring in the step . |
| 24 | ‘ No , people still want to make a splash for their daughters . |
| 25 | ‘ The banana nose and attachment glasses line have n't gone too well , ’ sighed Neville in rare serious moment , but the new range of masks are going well at £39 a time it 's clear people still want to have a laugh . |
| 26 | Inflation is far from dead , and surveys suggest that most young people still want to buy a home of their own at some stage . |
| 27 | Left to their own devices , few people understandably wish to take a holiday in the winter months , other than at Christmas . |
| 28 | ‘ British Sugar often want to move a load at very short notice and we must always be at the ready ’ he adds . |
| 29 | Could it , could people please stop conferring a minute , er , that is actually the government , saying that they no longer gon na give grants , their going to give us the right to borrow , and are actually encouraging us to do it . |
| 30 | If you need more space in the bell then vauDe make a Space Plus adding an arched pole which extends the length and height of the bell . |