Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All day and all night he would be there loitering in the streets of Chichester , either surrounded by hoards of admiring people or dismissed as a dirty scavenging wretch , ruining the ornate Georgian Streets . |
| 2 | Rather , it refers to Jesus 's membership in a specific group or sect with a specific religious and/or political orientation — the ‘ Nazarene Party ’ , as certain modern experts call it . |
| 3 | Mid-region performance is strong and acceleration only begins to tail off above 120mph , but the Chrysler engine lacks ultimate finesse at high revs , becoming noisy and slightly strained , while the power delivery is too often spoiled by a hesitation or jerk after a sudden lift-off or application of power . |
| 4 | All parties had agreed that the remaining 30 per cent of forces would eventually be either dismantled or absorbed into a Cambodian national army . |
| 5 | You can pick the work up and do a bit of it whenever you have a few minutes to spare and the final result is really splendid , whether it is all bejewelled and decorated or made in a simple plain yarn . |
| 6 | This figure shows the drivechart for the program JANEPLUS , which aims to introduce pupils to the idea of mathematical functions by displaying named figures , each of which either adds or multiplies by a particular small whole number which number the pupils must discover by trial , hypothesis and check . |
| 7 | Images could then be viewed as still sequences ( Fig 1 ) or displayed as a continuous real or accelerated sequence or ‘ movie ’ loop , or parts , or of the whole study . |
| 8 | An increasing number of universities are bringing the library and the computing service together , under one operation , or linked through a senior academic administrator post . |
| 9 | A directly evident proposition is one , in Chisholm 's terminology , which is either identical with or entailed by a true contingent proposition which is all but certain . |
| 10 | In some cases , however , the information on contacts may be slender , particularly if the sexual encounter followed a pick-up in a pub or resulted from a drunken all-night party which had been gate-crashed , and the contact-tracer may then be involved in trips , often abortive , to the Jolly Fig and Navel in the seedier part of town to try to locate Suzie — ‘ … the one with the long blonde hair , pink mini-skirt , and acne ’ . |
| 11 | Or turn into a bitchy ginny misery like M ( no , I could n't be like her ) . |
| 12 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
| 13 | Bright and bold , almost brash , large flowers with a white star or cross on a vivid orange background . |
| 14 | If they have experienced difficulties similar to the client , or live in a similar social environment , they are more likely to be able to foster the client 's own coping skills and to achieve a friendship on equal terms . |
| 15 | Ensure broken glass and other sharp items are thoroughly wrapped or left in a marked open box . |
| 16 | Big Allen , the highest peak of the foinland , which was so often veiled in mist or appeared as a blurred blue shape , this morning showed every crevice and crag on its slopes , every wind-bent bilberry , every clump of ling . |
| 17 | If you are a person who is classified as being ‘ at risk ’ , that is elderly , frail or disabled in some way , then you should seriously consider either living in a sheltered housing complex where you have the safety net of alarms in every room rigged to a 24-hour warden service , or subscribing to a medical alert system . |
| 18 | It is worth adding that , compared to some other socialist parties , Labour has not been handicapped by the opposition or suspicion of a powerful Catholic Church ( as in some Western European states ) , or divided by a powerful Communist movement in party politics and in trade unions ( as in France and Italy ) . |
| 19 | He indicated a rough path that led to a sturdy wooden cabin , and she dug her heels into the ground . |
| 20 | I have had no problem with them — nor did I when I originally starting keeping fish when I kept three that lived to a ripe old age . |
| 21 | It 's a high-level application programming interface that sits on a Unix-based personal computer equipped with call processing hardware . |
| 22 | Extensive canvassing showed the race issue to be , at best , marginal , more than counter-balanced by a strong pro-Taylor vote from many non-Tory constituents . |
| 23 | Writer Stephen Poliakoff has made an exciting cinema debut with ‘ Close My Eyes ’ — the story of an obsessive love that unfolds during a sweltering English summer . |
| 24 | The Heineken effect this research has identified is that created by a confiding trusting relationship , which accompanied by appropriate services , achieves more than any other managerial skill they could identify , to encourage elderly people to believe they could manage independent living and avoid admission to residential care . |
| 25 | Hardly a star showed , for the sky was veiled by a lacy wrack , bleached snow-white by the moon that rose in a clear unclouded patch . |
| 26 | It will be evident to the reader that it is the element of congestion that occurs in a local public good which determines that the size of the locality should be restricted . |
| 27 | Creating a technical structure that allows for a pan-authority electronic mail service is usually as problematic as building the trust and confidence that will allow staff to communicate and make decisions using such a system — let alone remember to log in each day . |
| 28 | Ebony and Ivory is a celebration of the ever popular black and white fashion , with designs that vary from a striking oversize plaid sweater , an ivory design with unusual slip stitch yoke , bands and Swiss-darned abstract art , to child 's ‘ blackboard ’ with a stimulated chalk drawing of a tipsy looking cat . |
| 29 | ‘ I was , at one point , on that dangerous curve that leads to a full mental breakdown , ’ he says . |
| 30 | This overlap was first described by Bowlby in 1885 , in a necropsy report that commented on a hard infiltrative mass affecting the thyroid and other structures in the neck contiguous with similar tissue throughout the mediastrinum . |