Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents have ( or should have ) authority over their children and this constitutes both a responsibility and a burden . |
| 2 | This statement paved the way for and was indeed reiterated in Roberts in which the Court of Appeal held that consent had on the facts been terminated where there was a formal deed of separation , even though this lacked both a non-cohabitation and a non-molestation clause . |
| 3 | When we meet , we seem to go in circles ; we 're great at telling the others how wrong they are or how to solve the problem , but we are not prepared to give in a bit and make the necessary compromises . |
| 4 | That blasted off a window and they discovered the deadly load . |
| 5 | The first does attempt to obtain a value , the second remains essentially a cost and not a value . |
| 6 | They 've each got ideally a circle and a line so they have identical features but they 're different letters so clearly , I mean it 's quite obvious , it 's not only the features present but also their relationship to the other features that 're present that determines what type of letter is recognised So any model of perception would have to take that into account . |
| 7 | Rather , there are three species , and each one of the three has both a 17-year and a 13-year variety or race . |
| 8 | These occur twice a day and may not , under rules drawn up by the journalists themselves , be mentioned in print . |
| 9 | The vast majority of Oxfordshire 's teachers claim that they were involved or very involved in their school 's review , an equally large majority ( four-fifths ) feel competent to carry out a review and that theirs was thorough or very thorough . |
| 10 | 4 Explain how a rhombus and parallelogram differ . |
| 11 | The Diggorys each pulled out a chair and perched on it , obviously uncomfortable . |
| 12 | A wife can be busy bunging up a family and so taken up with their affairs that she fails to give her husband real attention . |
| 13 | Being able to pick up a colour and press it on coloured paper was all very exciting . |
| 14 | Indeed honours were shared all the way to a tie-break in which Adebisi was able to switch up a gear and take a firm hold of the situation , winning 7–2 , to take the first set . |
| 15 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 16 | She was busy taking off a back-slab and replastering a fracture when Jack appeared , sticking his head round the door and grinning . |
| 17 | Rather below the normal height , his cheeks ruddy and somewhat full , the eyes keen and animated , large lips , his thick black beard flecked with grey falling down a hand and a half long , he bore an air of authority , and in anger his frown became imperious . |
| 18 | In the market , a person who can perform certain activities more efficiently may be able to take over a firm and capture the rent accruing as a result of greater efficiency . |
| 19 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 20 | A police officer said the window could not be opened without first leaning over a radiator and a curtained window box . |
| 21 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 22 | One held up a Bible and a rosary , but none spoke until an older man , their commanding officer , strode up with an outstretched hand which I shook without enthusiasm . |
| 23 | Similarly , only one transition action may be specified and it is not possible to have both a task and transition associated with the same state . |
| 24 | After a lifetime and a zillion points , the inconceivable happened : Dusty notched up a record and retired to his farm . |
| 25 | AFTER A couple of years on the indie circuit , Arista signed The Hollow Men , releasing their ‘ Cresta ’ album late last year , and it looked like these hard-working Leeds-based popsters were ready to step up a league and move on to a new , higher profile . |