Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 2 | Then I went below and got a handkerchief and helped Hands tie up the great bleeding wound in his leg . |
| 3 | Those who relish the challenge of something different should seek out the striking Egyptian star ( Pentas lanceolata ) or its temperamental relative , flame of the woods ( Ixora coccinea ) . |
| 4 | Hopefully it will take constructive criticism well and will carry on the excellent scientific work of the NCC . |
| 5 | Indeed , taking things a step further , you can break down an overall favourable attitude to a brand into a set of attitudes to different aspects of the brand . |
| 6 | Other measures include a 50p increase on garage rent to £2.50 a week , which will bring in an additional annual income of £32,500 . |
| 7 | From the back seats the Shermans heard Jacques suck in a long irritable breath . |
| 8 | I am so glad ; it sounds pretty good to me , and makes me feel just a poor bloody soldier . ’ |
| 9 | When choosing the frame for this design I looked for something that would show off the dark red colours of the flowers and also be fairly plain , so as to balance the rather busy design . |
| 10 | One day Penelope would bring home a Tibetan holy man , another time the entire Black Panther party . |
| 11 | Frances Coady , founder publisher at Vintage , will head up the new literary group , which brings together Jonathan Cape , Chatto & Windus , Vintage and Pimlico . |
| 12 | O may the memory of Charlie 's love and his earnest desire that you shall grow up an earnest Christian lead you to … throw your whole soul into the service of Christ … ‘ |
| 13 | The Government 's proposition is simple : a person making a claim that may date back a great many years ought to be able to produce some evidence to back it up . |
| 14 | ‘ … we find it unfortunate that Upjohn failed to respond at all readily to requests made by the Licensing Authority as early as 1990 , that they should carry out a new post-marketing surveillance study ’ . |
| 15 | Britain will carry out a joint naval operation with Colombia in the Caribbean aimed at intercepting cocaine shipments . |
| 16 | I hope , though , there are fifteen hundred families in Portslade who are doing that job , not for me but for them , so that we can carry out the important educational processes that go on within the college . |
| 17 | And then any extra specials that come up in the meantime , they would send out send out a wee typewritten sheet you see . |
| 18 | By this time the bell would be ringing insistently , because the Met Waaf at Group who was collecting the observations would have her finger on it , and sometimes she would type out a terse little message or two , such as , ‘ Wake up , Bourn ! ’ or ‘ There 's a war on , you know ! ’ |
| 19 | A brief discussion with the vendor or purchaser of the reasons for the sale should bring out the main commercial objectives of the transaction including specific concerns . |
| 20 | This was outside the framework of the Community institutions established by the Rome Treaty , but it was hoped that it could bring about a common European attitude to international problems . |
| 21 | It also needs long periods of ecological stability during which evolutionary epochs can bring about the necessary organic synthesis . |
| 22 | Measurements of conductivity will show how the ionized soluble matter varies . |
| 23 | And Davide could almost fancy he could smell again the stale vaporous emanations of the law in the room as he began to take down details of the wrong that had been done . |
| 24 | The idea is that we may know that some pleasures or pains have a generally high or low degree of purity or fecundity without its being practicable on a particular occasion to specify and evaluate specifically the precise further pleasures or pains which are likely to ensue from them . |
| 25 | You can effectively fend off the unsightly fatty areas known as cellulite , or ‘ orange-peel ’ skin by stimulating a healthy blood flow , taking regular exercise , and eating a sensible diet . |
| 26 | The door will then keep up an anxious running conversation with the Druid of the ‘ Ca n't you hurry up ? ’ variety while the adventurers are inside . |
| 27 | The 37-year-old former England winger vowed he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract , saying : Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Anfield where they crashed 5-0 on Saturday . |
| 28 | STEVE COPPELL last night tried to stamp out speculation that he may quit Crystal Palace by vowing that he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract . |
| 29 | He also said that he was settled in Leeds and intimated that he would see out the remaining 2 years of his contract . |
| 30 | You might be tempted to attribute it to lowish wage rates ( at the Brasserie ? ) , but a good answer would produce figures to justify this assertion ( you know both the staffing structure and the total wage bill for 1983 , at least , so you could work out the average gross wage per annum and relate it to what you knew about catering wages for the period ) . |