Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |
| 2 | We often visit schools that are involved in testing teaching units to discover that overnight a new program has been written by a teacher to use in his afternoon lesson . |
| 3 | I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me . |
| 4 | This is probably one of the most difficult factors for the young diabetic to accept and undoubtedly a great advantage of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is that it permits the patient greater flexibility in relation to the timing of meals with manual boluses of insulin 30 minutes beforehand . |
| 5 | Although few patients under investigation for iron deficiency anaemia will be found to have bleeding from the small intestine , these lesions can be difficult to find and therefore a disproportionate amount of time is spent in investigating these patients . |
| 6 | There 's nothing worse to come but just a different perspective which will probably put this whole thing into a new light . ’ |
| 7 | They you can provide a plastic jug full of ‘ tea ’ ( actually water ) to pour and even a real picnic . |
| 8 | Only by retaining an experienced independent consultant can a farmer make first a judgement about which way to go and secondly an objective purchasing decision . |
| 9 | The remaining men were just preparing to leave when suddenly a young man called Laban Tall rushed into the malthouse , almost too excited to speak . |
| 10 | The designer , aided by the development process must try to ensure that only a small proportion of teachers fall at each fence — a forbidding challenge . |
| 11 | It did not come to much : but it was perhaps essential before Britain obtained major allies to believe that somehow a revolutionary movement could be incited to grow in occupied Europe . |
| 12 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 13 | These are just an example of the excellent trips available in gran Canaria — they cost around £15 each , less if you buy the whole package , and most trips include plenty to eat and often a free bar ! |
| 14 | Another way of formulating this criterion is to say that only a semantic deviance can be taken as a ‘ figure of speech ’ . |