Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [pron] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This lets you hide any application , whether open or minimised — great if the boss is coming and you 've got a game of solitaire on the boil .
2 This lets you connect two workstations to the card , and essential feature in a bus topology .
3 Far less does it make any attempt to improve these procedures to meet their critics .
4 That lets them use such phrases as ‘ smart cookie ’ and ‘ that 's the way the cookie crumbles ’ — meaning the inevitability of some outcome .
5 We do not want to say that one kind of state causes the other kind , but neither does it make much sense to say that they are ‘ parallel ’ or ‘ identical ’ .
6 It brings us quite close to what is essential in some kinds of abstract art : when we look at the work of Rothko or Barnett Newman or maybe Brancusi , what is it exactly that makes us feel these works are so important ?
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