Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best practice is to try steering a controlled wiggly course using your weight . |
| 2 | Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group-wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments . |
| 3 | To those brought up on E. alpinum , the viciously prickly glaucous sea holly , E. eburneum is novel if not a revelation and surprisingly easy to grow given a deep well-drained soil in sun . |
| 4 | In a special preface to their communiqué the Foreign Ministers extended to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe " the hand of friendship and co-operation " and expressed determination to " seize the historic opportunities resulting from the profound changes in Europe to help build a new peaceful order … based on freedom , justice and democracy " . |
| 5 | And should United yet manage to acquire a top frontman — attempts to sign Alan Shearer and Dutchman Dennis Bergkamp failed — then Hughes might yet be the player sold to help fund a massive financial outlay . |
| 6 | Mersey Regional Ambulance Service , which now also covers Cheshire , has been selected to help formulate a new nationwide blueprint for the care of patients with serious injuries . |
| 7 | David Tennet ( Contractors ) has been given the grant to help convert a disused two-storey building in Commercial Street into four purpose-built industrial units . |
| 8 | Some bank loans will be used in specific projects — road construction , water supply , docks , etc. — or to help finance a general economic development programme , e.g. agricultural improvements . |
| 9 | The vote , when it came , broke five days of deadlock for a post that will give Yeltsin no executive powers , but huge authority and the opportunity to help set a new political agenda for the Russian parliament . |
| 10 | Well-paid for his services to Gen Noriega , Harari was known in Panama as ‘ Mr Sixty Percent , ’ according to Panama 's former Ambassador to Tel Aviv , Mr Eduadro Herero Hassan , who was flown back to Panama this week by the US to help rebuild a new Panamanian security force . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Rafsanjani criticized Germany 's decision announced on June 30 not to help rebuild a war-damaged nuclear plant at the Gulf port of Bushehr . |
| 12 | It can be difficult to justify spending a large large amount of course time on design , but asking colleagues in design institutions to recommend or teach a useful ( and usable ) subset of document design to occupy just a few hours is not likely to elicit an encouraging response . |
| 13 | His voice was cultured , he spoke with a more cosmopolitan accent than Edward Morris who though obviously educated and quite well to do had a marked Welsh accent . |
| 14 | It was not easy to postpone building a new Junior School , but the cost of a conventional building was by now well into six figures and still rising . |
| 15 | After this date the leading elements of the landowning class and the bourgeoisie were to merge to form a new ruling class , based firmly on Britain 's international primacy in trade and manufacture . |
| 16 | Clearly , in the current review of the Territorial Army , we are paying great attention to the need to continue to have a good geographical spread across the country . |
| 17 | I can not claim to have undertaken a comprehensive content analysis of the literature , but it is very unusual to find systematic analysis of the ‘ state ’ as such in works on Japan written in English . |
| 18 | One purpose of making these claims might be to attempt to establish a new legal norm , that is , that a claim at present based upon a need will become one of right . |
| 19 | Under the contract with ISS Philips undertook to pay ISS a fixed monthly sum to cover ISS 's direct and indirect labour costs , insurance , the upkeep of the workplace and the costs of management . |
| 20 | Today that strong man was shown to have dropped a massive political clanger . |
| 21 | To the purist it would seem regrettable to have included a modern 14-carat gold box by Cartier ( although decorated with a nineteenth-century mosaic ) as the last entry in this book . |
| 22 | He was the last king of England to attempt to create a new royal forest — the forest of the honour of Hampton Court , established in 1539 near his new palace of Nonsuch near Epsom . |
| 23 | Riva seems to have undergone a total physical transformation — her hair is cropped short , and her long , full skirt is wrapped round her legs like a strange pair of baggy breeches . |
| 24 | If so , it would have been splendid to have seen a small blue Ford Anglia spluttering along the road as I descended , with a tiny white face peering from a condensation-covered back window . |
| 25 | ‘ Tell me about this woman who claims to have seen a large blue car near the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 26 | Kuwait was thought to have made a major financial grant to the new Iraqi regime as an incentive to improve relations , which , whilst remaining peaceful during the 1960s , were nevertheless marred by a dispute centring on Iraq 's interest in Bubiyan and Warba . |
| 27 | Although I could not claim to have made a detailed ethnographic study of the school , the many visits enabled me to gain a fairly broad picture of its ‘ ethos ’ . |
| 28 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 29 | Whatever the relative order of gesture , speech and structure thereof , my quasi-conceptual evolutionary thesis would still be pressing : iterable contribution to significant structure across the whole language , be it gestural or symbolic , is almost certain to have needed a shrewd intentional grasp by communicators of what they were up to . |
| 30 | It would be too much to expect convergent evolution to have produced a single thrifty genotype in all populations by chance , and the most likely situation is that several genes have been selected in different combinations , in different populations , to produce a phenotypically similar syndrome . |