Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few intend to stay beyond a year or two . |
| 2 | Some like to work from a diagram where there is a brief description of technique used at the start , then the remainder of the pattern consists of the diagram of the various garment parts , with figures that relate to stitches , rows and sizes . |
| 3 | Somehow people producing this , preparing this have to think of a way in which they can trap the listener , the viewer , the reader and get their interest . |
| 4 | The skull seems to become translucent , and within it — and in the flesh about it — knotted cords of white begin to form into a spiral which funnels back into a single thicker cord at the back of the skull . |
| 5 | When fired at a school of fish , these seem to act like a shotgun , disorienting many fish at the same time . |
| 6 | By the time we are all set to go to a club I am teetering on the brink . |
| 7 | We all need to belong to a group of people who believe , if we are to grow in faith . |
| 8 | ‘ So how much would Froggy reckon to make in a season ? ’ asked Inspector Drew . |
| 9 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |
| 10 | The consequence is a metropolitan elite of ‘ spoiled children ’ , whose licence to provoke frees them from any need to enter into a dialogue with their audiences . |
| 11 | If you 've defined several different types of heading and paragraphs styles for use in a complex report , those styles can be used again when you next have to work on a document in a similar format . |