Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The times cry out for a dramatic change in our relationship to our neighbour , the Earth and , at root to God . |
| 2 | FACES WITHOUT HOPE : Bosnian captives peer blankly from a barbed wire compound in the Omarska camp . |
| 3 | The atmosphere is relaxed and friendly as the marchers and their supporters wind down after a hard day . |
| 4 | Mass production dates from the time of Henry Ford , who was the first man to adopt the principle of the production line , when he used this approach to produce a restricted range of motor cars put together in a flow-line process . |
| 5 | I wiped sweat off my forehead with my fingers and stood quietly , holding on , trying to let the oxygen level in my blood climb back to a functioning state . |
| 6 | Although the atomic beam pulses spread out during a particular measurement , owing to velocity dispersion , calculations show that the mean density quoted here is the important measure . |
| 7 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 8 | There are few descriptions of the histological features of gold induced colitis , but a preservation of glandular architecture and diffuse inflammatory cell infiltrate sometimes with a prominent eosinophil component are said to be characteristic . |
| 9 | Acceptable collocational patterns and grammatical structures can only enhance the readability of individual sentences , but they do not in themselves ensure that sentences and paragraphs add up to a readable or coherent text . |
| 10 | CLEVELAND athletes of the future get off to a flying start today with a new course at Cleveland stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | They have obvious advantages over ordinary questionnaires and ‘ checklists ’ : with these one can in practice ask only about a limited number of activities which must be precisely specified in advance . |
| 12 | In the Kenyan savannahs where chimpanzees were first studied intensively in the wild , the animals live primarily on a vegetarian diet of fruit and leaves , together with insects such as termites . |
| 13 | These two types of meaning are distinguished by the terms semantic meaning ( the fixed context-free meaning ) and pragmatic meaning ( the meaning which the words take on in a particular context , between particular people ) . |
| 14 | Michael Scott describes the practical proposals put forward in a new report on this contentious issue . |
| 15 | After the Labour group meeting , which was held in private , Councillor Keith Geddes , leader of the Lothian administration , said the referendum depended on the proposals put forward in a white paper which Mr Lang was due to publish . |
| 16 | FIGHTS break out at a Black Rights demonstration in Euston , London . |
| 17 | The range of views put forward in a small sample of recent works on the subject ( see Abbott , 1987 ; Berardi , 1985 ; George , 1985 ; Tullis and Hollist , 1986 ) , illustrates well the complexities of the issues and the difficulty of solving them . |
| 18 | Instantly entranced , Victoria beamed ; before their eyes , her miserable O spread out into a Happy Sambo melon-wedge grin . |
| 19 | Bottom , between those of the Lovers in the pas de deux and those of Titania and Bottom , the movements grow out of a firm technical choreographic design . |
| 20 | Glanton 's current plans for the Barnes depend entirely on a favourable judgment from the Orphans Court . |
| 21 | That the written statement and its publication add up to a true Dostoevsky confession , to repentance and acceptance of suffering , to ‘ a wonderful podvig ’ in Tikhon 's words , is one possibility among many . |
| 22 | Well , Kenny 's Rovers stand today on a level footing with Brian 's Forest exactly 15 years ago this holiday week-end . |
| 23 | Burial in a churchyard was becoming a thing of the past in central London from the 1840s onwards ; space was too precious , and the task of burying the dead was taken over by non-denominational cemeteries run largely on a commercial basis . |
| 24 | Rarely did any Tiller Girl stand out in a glamorous way but stunning was always the word used to describe Violet Bryant nicknamed Ginger because of her glorious red hair , she could not possibly blend in with the others . |
| 25 | Sexy , swept back curls contrast well with a short back and sides . |
| 26 | If deconstruction in a purest sense is only of limited interest to a study which is asserting that texts emerge out of a particular culture called the English Renaissance , it is also true that , fortunately , there is little pure deconstruction about . |
| 27 | According to convention the arrows on the lines point outwards from a positive point charge . |
| 28 | A ‘ Slaven for Scotland ’ number was followed immediately by the striker 's selection for Ireland ; the ‘ Pears for Sweden ’ shirt led inevitably to the goalie missing his England B call up with a fractured cheek bone . |
| 29 | Companies do so on a voluntary basis . |
| 30 | Add the tofu , breadcrumbs , Tabasco , margarine , soy sauce and pepper and blend until the ingredients come together as a smooth ball . |