Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time this opened up an honest discussion of feelings , and started the process of constructing a new pattern of interaction . |
| 2 | This opened up an interesting line of enquiry . |
| 3 | Erm now given , what less than five months er before this May the fourth directive , Mao is still saying that , this marks quite an important shift in policy . |
| 4 | Other MPs also go on the record on Page 2 to give TODAY an astonishing list of threats that caused some to buckle under . |
| 5 | ( Though in fact she would not have said ‘ lumbered ’ , not because she was afraid to put forward an unpopular view , but because she was an honourable and exact woman . |
| 6 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ This brought about an artificial market surge with the result that Britain faced boom or bust . |
| 8 | Throughout our period , however , we see that Whigs were prepared to hold up an independent standard by which to assess the legitimacy of authority , that of fundamental law or natural law , and they were willing to challenge the legitimacy of established authority ( whether royal or Parliamentary ) if power was exercised in violation of people 's natural rights . |
| 9 | They could get money by robbing a fruit machine , but it is easier to beat up an old woman and grab her purse . |
| 10 | This permits both an effective method of assessing ability and achievement with the minimum of day-to-day interference . |
| 11 | Perhaps not every chord was quite in place , but this remains orchestrally an exciting performance ; occasional poor balance between voice and stage emanates , I think , from the acoustic properties of the set . |
| 12 | The choice indicates how much the state is willing to take on an active role of managing national resources for greater international competitiveness , and in what form . |
| 13 | On becoming choirmaster at south Hackney parish church ( 1872–5 ) Hunt gathered the support of leading organists in London and in 1872 set up an independent institution to provide better training for church musicians . |
| 14 | It is easy to write down an equivalent definition of unc that is a straightforward recursion on syntax . |
| 15 | The Black Sea countries ( Bulgaria , Romania , the Soviet Union and Turkey , with Greece and Yugoslavia as observers ) met in July 1991 to work out an economic co-operation agreement [ see p. 38352 ] . |
| 16 | … With regard to a firm or a company , it is impossible to lay down an exhaustive rule as to what would be a libel on them . |
| 17 | These provide neither an exhaustive listing nor even a wide range of examples , but clearly identify the differences that mark out the South in the contemporary United States . |
| 18 | Ready-finished doors are now among those on offer and these require just an occasional wipe over to keep them looking immaculate . |
| 19 | It is not possible to draw up an exhaustive list of matters that may legitimately be taken into account . |
| 20 | US President George Bush , concerned above all to hold together an anti-Iraq coalition in the Gulf which included key Arab allies , had quite openly distanced himself from Israel in recent months . |
| 21 | Although standards for cycle track construction were set as part of the 1975 Act , it was felt necessary to provide some demonstration projects to give local authorities guidelines on costs , approaches to particular problems , and above all to demonstrate how an entire cycle route might be created . |
| 22 | Mr X sets up an overseas trust under which he and his spouse are excluded from all benefit . |
| 23 | It is a curious fact that native speakers are unwilling to attempt even an approximate gloss of the meaning of cran — , yet there is no such hesitation with foot in foot the bill . |
| 24 | PCT application 82/03520 explains how an automatic shutoff unit can either be built into a domestic appliance or installed as an add-on unit to existing equipment . |
| 25 | However , if more than that was needed and the family began to have more serious problems , then on the whole it seemed to be better to bring in an outside agency unconnected to the placement process . |
| 26 | We all sat round an enormous dining-room table for supper , which , as it was Boxing Day , was always cold turkey with all the trimmings , sausages , pork pie , beetroot and celery . |
| 27 | Thus it is possible to build up an accurate map of which etchings were printed together and so establish their place in a general chronology . |
| 28 | But we 've been unable to track down an official aid organisation which has worked with her . |
| 29 | The weather was gorgeous and I was able to look up an old friend . ’ |
| 30 | Yet it costs individual households nothing more to put out an extra binfull , although the community as a whole will have to pay more ; conversely , they save nothing if they recycle or compost or simply buy more carefully . |