Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | That adds up to a good campaign in Labour 's view : no gaffes , lots of pictures , and a positive message delivered in controlled surroundings . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One answer is that studies of comprehension are generally very much easier to carry out in a controlled way than studies of spontaneous production . |
| 9 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some predict up to a five per cent average rise by the end of the year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This leads on to a major guideline for all consequences : |
| 19 | This leads on to a third aspect — the redistributive effect over a person 's lifetime , rather than just in the current period . |
| 20 | This leads on to a dramatic low and a severe craving for another dose of the stuff . |
| 21 | This leads on to a further point . |
| 22 | ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time . |
| 23 | Rather like the systems employed by general practitioners , there are advantages and disadvantages to both methods , with patients perhaps preferring the former system and being prepared to put up with a long delay once in the clinic to a worried wait of two or three days . |
| 24 | The Roman Catholics were interested that a combination between a Russian refugee , Georges Florovsky , an English high churchman , Michael Ramsey , and a dogmatic Swiss Protestant , Karl Barth , brought the ecumenical movement to an impasse because none of them was prepared to put up with a Protestant federation , and the union of these unlikely allies was too powerful to overcome . |
| 25 | Oh right mm so it 's , it , this , this emerges out of a personal interest thing ? |
| 26 | This went on for a long time . |
| 27 | Focusing on the small-time hood ( Danny Aiello , the pizza parlour boss of Do The Right Thing ) who shot Oswald , this winds up as a daft romance . |
| 28 | Minor conflicts occur with the couple trying to pacify her , this continues up to a black moment when the house relents and saves them and then I say and this is important I think when you write for a radio , I have marked one paragraph with red brackets . |
| 29 | The Democratic Congressmen and Senators , who yesterday scurried to give bi-partisan support to what looked like a patriotic pre-Christmas success , may be forced to think again if this drags on into a stand-off with American hostages in Noriega 's hands . |
| 30 | That came back through a separate AC30 so they could both distort to their hearts ’ content and not interfere with each other . |