Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 2 | Notice also how these skills provide us with a timeless wisdom , applicable to all people-situations anywhere . |
| 3 | All the rotaries , as with any noise gate , take a little time to get into using and effective gating comes about through practice , although it can at times appear something of a black art . |
| 4 | But not any more , because you see this is how I look at it now : those kind of schools grind you into a certain way of thinking and … and somehow , unless you become very careful , you 're stuck that way for the rest of your life . |
| 5 | The second key let them into a vaulted stone cellar , and groping torch in hand along the far wall behind the piled casks of wine , Thomas brushed the cobwebs from a low , insignificant door . |
| 6 | Popular images of parent-child relationships put them in a special category , distinct from other kin relationships , and suggest that this is where we will find the strongest feelings of duty and obligation . |
| 7 | The test of its validity is whether the subjects of the research accept it as a true account of their way of life . |
| 8 | Obediently she returned the gesture , meeting his mesmeric gaze , feeling the power of his appraisal bathe her in a tingling aura before taking a deep , refreshing swallow . |
| 9 | BOY GEORGE has revealed that he and his lover see themselves as a married couple . |
| 10 | Fishing Lines : The staring eyes have it for a longer life |
| 11 | The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic . |
| 12 | Turtles provide us with a different example . |
| 13 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 14 | Save Air Miles tokens and make your Enterprise holiday something to really write home about — 1,000 Air Miles vouchers entitle you to a whopping £60 off any holiday in this brochure . |
| 15 | Save Air Miles tokens and make your Sovereign holiday something to really write home about — 1000 Air Miles vouchers entitle you to a whopping £60 off any holiday in this brochure . |
| 16 | Be it nuking the world , winning at Brand 's Hatch , or wrestling with pixies , will all this fantasy turn you into a blob-shaped brain-dead computer-zombie ? |
| 17 | Barnes and Seldon deploy it as a classic example of Macmillanesque subtlety in handling colleagues . |
| 18 | This female lays her eggs some distance away in a rabbit burrow and when the ducklings hatch , both parents take them to a different feeding position on the mud flats where , for a while , they again maintain a territory . |
| 19 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
| 20 | By the end of the century they were dividing its work betwen them in a systematic and efficient way . |
| 21 | The improvements in performance over the last two years provide us with a secure base from which to move forward . |
| 22 | The band run themselves on a democratic basis and have their own voting system . |
| 23 | Most of today 's great tournament fighters on the world circuits limit themselves to a few techniques that work best for them . |
| 24 | As well , Hi 's reflections on Carlotta establish her as a real woman as well as an ideal of love and beauty . |
| 25 | Does dew or rain reduce it to a sodden pulpy mass ? |
| 26 | Venezuela stands in sharp contrast because the banks see it as a better bet than Mexico . |
| 27 | DEL Amitri see themselves as a laid-back , fashionably unfashionable rock group . |
| 28 | However , there can be little doubt that significant numbers of protestant loyalists see themselves as a distinct , almost ethnic group . |
| 29 | The vast majority of cross-national case studies confine themselves to a narrow range of countries : United States , Japan , Scandinavia , France , West Germany , Italy and the United Kingdom ; and to a lesser extent , Canada and the smaller northern and central European countries ( notably Holland and Austria ) . |
| 30 | Although most customers want something like a conventional ferry , but faster , manufacturers have generally used materials and construction techniques from the aircraft industry . |