Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This skirts the base of the pinnacled north ridge and reaches a ridge beyond , where the final stage of the ascent , of daunting aspect , requires a very steep scramble up a narrowing spire to its airy top . |
| 2 | Some take up a static life — the barnacles ; others swim in vast shoals — the krill which forms the food of whales . |
| 3 | tutorial programme , we talked last , last term er and I said that I 'd like to as soon as possible put up a complete programme of titles , it would be nice if we could have a little er what am I supposed to call them ? |
| 4 | I want that put on a net list . |
| 5 | As we have already seen , these make up a sizeable number of temporary workers and in the years since 1983 there has been a major expansion of special employment measures in Britain . |
| 6 | The young student who died in Edinburgh ; James Bulger ; the girl raped in Gwent — all bring out a natural sympathy as well as a sense of our own fragility and powerlessness . |
| 7 | Docks , farms , animals , people , towns and villages all make up a complete railway system . |
| 8 | 4 Work out a practical agreement/compromise . |
| 9 | United put up a brave fight and a little more luck in the second half might have brought them a goal . |
| 10 | Britten combines this with a highly resourceful method of linking and transforming themes , so that ideas which are at first simply pictorial take on a psychological meaning in the story , or vice versa . |