Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Nigel said , still balancing on one leg and facing the wall , ‘ Miss Honey taught us how to spell a new very long word yesterday . ’ |
| 2 | Nomadic designs are woven from memory and are usually characterized by their overall compositional boldness , simplicity of colouring ( sometimes employing only 3 or 4 hues to create a dramatic yet dignified effect ) and the use of mainly geometric motifs and forms . |
| 3 | Alan Parker and Jonathan Huxley were awarded the Spero Prize at the Schools ' summer show , awarded to students who had ‘ sought to create an innovative yet marketable style which reflects art in the nineties ’ . |
| 4 | There 's nothing more frustrating than discovering halfway through a DIY project that you have forgotten to buy a simple yet vital piece of equipment . |
| 5 | Statistical information about n-grams has been applied to the output to select a single most likely letter string result . |
| 6 | This set Eliot on to a technical disquisition which I at least was unable to follow ; but it included the fact that , in order to preserve a certain particularly rare cheese or at least to promote its further maturity , the owners had ‘ buried it ’ . |
| 7 | It may , according to circumstances and the personalities involved , be best to fix a regular mutually agreeable day for visiting , so that it is something to be looked forward to and prepared for . |
| 8 | All the employees of Champaign , Illinois-based Addamax Corp except for president Peter Alsberg have left the firm to form a new wholly independent company as a result of the fallout from Addamax 's on-going $100m anti-trust litigation against the Open Software Foundation and Foundation sponsors Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp . |
| 9 | All of the employees of Addamax Corp except Addamax president Peter Alsberg have left the firm to form a new wholly independent company as a result of the fallout from Addamax 's on-going $100m antitrust litigation against the Open Software Foundation and OSF founders Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp . |
| 10 | Here he urges Scots to wake up and fight to protect a fragile yet valuable asset Telling Scots to take a stronger line : Chapman Pincher is incensed by English-based drift-netting . |
| 11 | In practice , it is possible to send a single digitally encoded TV channel only down an optical fibre . |
| 12 | We know at least that we are to have a common centrally determined curriculum for maintained secondary schools . |
| 13 | I shall continue to speak in these and the more ordinary ways of the things in question , but it will be at least economical to have a single wholly general term for all of them . |
| 14 | With the reunification of Germany , GTF can for the first time offer you the chance to take an acclaimed Go-As-You-Please Fly- Drive package through the New Federal States . |