Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applicants should possess or expect to obtain shortly a good Honours Degree in Mathematics . |
| 2 | If the patient 's lips , tongue or face take on a purply-bluish tint . |
| 3 | An occasional treat or privilege for a child who has made a big effort to master a new skill or managed to give up a bad habit hardly comes into that category . |
| 4 | Time and again , they came upon heaps of white shard-like bones or tripped cursing over a trailing white , skeletal arm or leg protruding from its thin veil of soil . |
| 5 | Then allow your goal or Dream to take on a symbolic form , and appear on the grass in front of you . |
| 6 | Some of the most inspiring work of Chattisgarh Liberation Front has been the formation of a women 's organisation that has set up a popular tribunal to deal with wrongs against women — desertion , rape , abuse . |
| 7 | Robertson was speaking about professional pride as opposed to wallowing in excessive sentimentality when he catalogued the reasons why there was only eager anticipation of the friendly fixture that has taken on a hostile look since injury decimated Roxburgh 's initial choice of players . |
| 8 | So far , I have found three of these artefacts on a site that has produced over a thousand 18th–19th century items . |
| 9 | Rather than tending to achieve constantly a similar grade or mark ( whether a low of a high one ) on tests with ever higher standards , they will constantly be increasing their own level of attainment on the same scale of levels . |
| 10 | Ectothermic reptiles have a body temperature that tends to vary over a 24-hour period , and hence seem unable to support a large brain . |
| 11 | Turning to the third category , of strokes that serve to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes that either precede or follow , we could call them ‘ separation strokes ’ We find strokes in such patterns as shown in ex.3a so overwhelmingly , that we can identify sporadic dots as shrunken strokes . |
| 12 | The forces that had called forth a great preacher like Griffith were passing and he needed to be taken out of the limelight . |
| 13 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 14 | I was silent for a moment , trying desperately hard to remember events that had happened only a few minutes earlier . |
| 15 | Every experience of childbirth is different , so the accounts by teenage mothers that follow illustrate just a few of these . |
| 16 | ‘ So I buy an old dump that 's got about a hundred and fifty thousand miles on the clock . |
| 17 | Robinson also cited the work of the commission 's judicial task force in recommending and helping to set up a scientific organization inside the Federal Judicial Center that will provide guidance for judges on the question of interpreting scientific evidence in court ( see page 481 ) . |
| 18 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 19 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 20 | The Economy Ministers of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay met on July 20 in the Uruguayan capital , Montevideo , and agreed to work out a joint set of rules to combat the dumping and sale of subsidised goods by non-members of their prospective common market agreed under the Mercosur Treaty of March 1991 [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 21 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 22 | This small but impressive gallery has been a launch pad for many artists over the years and has built up a steady , progressive reputation under the new directorship of Tim Eastop . |
| 23 | Recently , Mike Lester has recognized the need to co-ordinate and develop the catering side of the operations , and has set up a small Pub Catering Department under the Estates division . |
| 24 | She teaches literacy , numeracy and music to a variety of patients from the centre , and has set up a small bible group with the chaplain . |
| 25 | It has also increased marketing activities into the growing Far Eastern markets of China , Singapore and Taiwan , and has set up a new subsidiary in Hong Kong . |
| 26 | China has solved the problem of disposing of solid radioactive waste and has set up a complete purifying system for radioactive liquid and gaseous waste , according to participants in a seminar on nuclear science in Beijing . |
| 27 | Kim Kethavy , the party 's leader , made his fortune from petrol stations in California and has put up a large slogan outside his office in Phnom Penh 's Market Square proclaiming ‘ Communism is evil ’ . |
| 28 | Hence , it was natural to become preoccupied with climate and to try to set up a geomorphological scheme in which climate dominated erosion and erosion dominated structure and lithology , so that every climatic zone had its characteristic landforms . |
| 29 | She walked over to the pond and bent to pick up a small pebble , skimming it across the glittering water , watching the way it bounced , then sank , leaving behind it only ripples . |
| 30 | A girl came in and tried to haggle over a nineteenth-century vase , but Rachaela told her Mrs Mantini fixed the prices fairly and never reduced items . |