Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's more of worth , more that uplifts in a single chorus of ‘ We Need Money' ’ than in a dozen of your picky , pedantic articles ! ’ |
| 2 | is a vast neighbourhood and it 's got no outlet , where everything goes up and everything has to come back out again and all that goes along a small country road . |
| 3 | That points to a possible cause of friction within the Major gang . |
| 4 | That points to an annual rate of 310% . |
| 5 | Well I mean look at that that looks like a real fire . |
| 6 | That looks like a young man 's demagogy ( cp . |
| 7 | So erm mark your axes , work out what your scale is going to be , to fit it all on , I mean that that looks like a nice fit . |
| 8 | That looks like a little island with water round it . |
| 9 | Figure 2.3 looks at a similar period for Europe . |
| 10 | We devote $300m of research and development expenditure exclusively to the systems division , which has annual revenues of $2,360m : that corresponds to an respectable level of 12% . ’ |
| 11 | Again this contributes to a continuing shift from manual to non-manual occupations which is affecting most parts of the economy . |
| 12 | To start with , there are more energy levels : for a d 3 system , for instance , the ground free ion term is usually 4 F , but this splits in an octahedral field into three levels — 4 A 2g , 4 T 2g and 4 T 1g , just as the f orbitals split into a 2u , t 2u and t 1u sets in an octahedral field . |
| 13 | This points to a toxic effect of the alcohol itself . |
| 14 | But even this points to a living belief in the supernatural realm . |
| 15 | This points to a significant disharmony between the rhetoric of schooling and the practice . |
| 16 | This points to a big difference between now and ten years ago . |
| 17 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 18 | This looks like a good item for your Christmas shopping list ! |
| 19 | ‘ This looks like a good job , ’ I though , unaware that I had arrived in the middle of Danny Baker 's leaving party . |
| 20 | Now this looks like a good game to bet on , because a probability of one , is an absolute certainty . |
| 21 | ‘ This looks like a nice spot ’ |
| 22 | This looks like a tiny tadpole . |
| 23 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ This looks like a delightful place . |
| 25 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 26 | Anne read the guidebooks , while I 'd say , ‘ Hey , this looks like an interesting airfield ! ’ to which Anne would reply , £The fact that the place has an interesting approach does not mean that I want to spend my holidays there ! ’ |
| 27 | One man has a house with twelve rooms : another lives in a cardboard box . |
| 28 | In the gravitational case the dipole term contains a factor which equals the net force , and this vanishes for an isolated system . |
| 29 | Obviously what is helpful and what is unhelpful depends to a large extent on the circumstances of the situation . |
| 30 | This smacks of an orchestrated campaign by those who are opposed to his policies and would like to do him dirt . ’ |