Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You may then decide that either you do not need to interview anyone at all because no job exists or that you need to interview someone for a quite different role , perhaps involving taking on various responsibilities of other employees which together form a more rational and cohesive whole .
2 But if we try to abstract , as far as possible , from the local value of the impressions which affect different parts of our skins , we seem to find nothing like a really qualitative difference in the sensations . ’
3 Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day .
4 Now , I know it is sometimes bad to be very narrow in your outlook but I think it was a good idea to focus on , we consider as a pretty high priority and make as much progress as we can , without forgetting other things and try and teach ourselves to do something within a fairly short space of time .
5 We need to use something with a much smaller wavelength .
6 ‘ We 've learnt from our past mistakes in approaching Thurrock and Nottingham and we 'll use the experience we gain from Southwell to the full at Telford to build something on a far grander scale , ’ Muddle says confidently .
7 I did n't much want to share anything with a grossly fat man wearing nothing but one of the lately fashionable cherub costumes — consisting solely of two small white wings glued to his blubbery back .
8 The initiative to set up the relationship often comes from the client though , at times , this is difficult because he has to approach someone in a very different social position .
9 Do not fix anything so low over a sofa that people can knock their heads on it when getting up or even leaning back ; all the same , try to place everything at a reasonably flexible eye level .
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