Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As expected Object World ‘ 92 got off to a dramatic and bitchy start with the opening panel session which , on the day , featured Paul Allchin , Microsoft Corp 's vice president for advanced products , Philippe Kahn , founder of Borland International Inc , Steve McKay , SunSoft Inc vice president for user environment software and Joe Guglielmi , head of Taligent Inc as the great and glorious warm-up act for NeXT Inc 's Steve Jobs who topped the bill . |
| 2 | The crowd of 7,000 — Aberdeen 's lowest of the season — had little to enthuse over in a drab second half in which Aberdeen had several excellent chances but displayed their old failing of not converting demonstrable outfield superiority into goals . |
| 3 | It will be necessary to see how far it is possible to go along with a strict criterion-referenced system or what kind of compromises may be worked out if such a system has advantages of motivating pupils and aiding changes in curriculum . |
| 4 | That goes nicely behind a six foot trestle or whatever it is . |
| 5 | Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour . |
| 6 | Viewing the accounts of parish overseers with their detailed entries of small payments for a range of needs , some historians have found it possible to write approvingly of a Poor Law which was sensitive to local needs and did not deal in bread alone . |
| 7 | That adds up to a good campaign in Labour 's view : no gaffes , lots of pictures , and a positive message delivered in controlled surroundings . |
| 8 | That adds up to a great confrontation in today 's championship clash with title-holders Essex , with England captain Graham Gooch making an early return to Old Trafford where he hit one of the great Test centuries on Monday . |
| 9 | We 've been frozen out there , and that order was worth a couple of million sterling , and that adds up to a hefty pile of wage packets . |
| 10 | It is possible to work hard at a complete system and get very little from it because of interference by other predators . |
| 11 | One answer is that studies of comprehension are generally very much easier to carry out in a controlled way than studies of spontaneous production . |
| 12 | The exaggeration or over-simplification of the notion of commonality within the gens as regards ownership of property is also apparent in the discussion of kinship and this led equally to a fundamental misunderstanding . |
| 13 | This looks forward to a future phase of professionalism . |
| 14 | This looks almost like a long unused guest room with a view . |
| 15 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 16 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 17 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
| 18 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 19 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 20 | Simmel places exchange at the point at which Hegel constructs society , and this articulates well with a major tradition in anthropological theory , where it is exchange , often viewed in terms of the polarity of gift and commodity , which is seen as constitutive of society itself ( e.g. Appadurai 1986 ; Lévi-Strauss 1969 ; Sahlins 1974 : 165–183 ) . |
| 21 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 22 | prisons , being regarded by most planners and politicians as ‘ non-productive ’ ( short-sighted a view as this may be ) , did not until very recently achieve even token inclusion in a Five Year Plan , and this came only after a lengthy battle by individuals within the Ministries of Home Affairs and Welfare to include a meaningful package for development in the correctional field . |
| 23 | A disadvantage of the microscope aid is that as the magnification increases the size of the lens has to decrease , owing to the weight and expense of high-powered lenses , and this results again in a smaller field of view . |
| 24 | This happens rapidly in a steady wind but can be helped by shaking the kite . |
| 25 | This happens only over a limited Reynolds number range . |
| 26 | If England were to decline to tour India on the grounds of safety , other countries might not be so willing to visit there for a one-day jamboree . |
| 27 | Most of us would probably start off growing pelargoniums in a soilless compost but Hazel reports that they 're actually much easier to grow well in a loam-based compost . |
| 28 | Some predict up to a five per cent average rise by the end of the year . |
| 29 | Yet the picture that all this conjures up of a thin red , white and blue line defending civilization and the British sense of ‘ fair play ’ against serried ranks of black barbarians is suddenly counterpointed by an even more arresting image — that of the police themselves who are frightening the local inhabitants of Brixton by whooping like red indians , and beating on their shields like Zulu warriors . |
| 30 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |