Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spark kindled during the trips , many led by his tutor , Dr Stanley Chapman , ignited into a passion for products of Britain 's 19th century industrial pre-eminence — a passion which has developed into both a business and a pastime . |
| 2 | The stroke works well in boats of this length but in the last six years the average length of kayak has dropped by almost a metre . |
| 3 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 4 | The EC 's share of their exports has risen from about a quarter in 1989 to about half . |
| 5 | Fair point , but the Leeds defence has struggled for almost a season and he still has n't put it right . |
| 6 | In the modern world , sport has become at once a symbol of supposed supremacy , a means of keeping healthy , an opiate for the hopeless and the unemployed , an excuse for jingoism , and perhaps most of all , a source of considerable income . |
| 7 | This brief survey has provided at least a taste of current applications of mathematics and computers in the service of museums and archaeology . |
| 8 | Since the 1930s , it has served as both a tea shop and now a restaurant . |
| 9 | I have found as somebody who has worked for about a quarter century , in the national liberation movement , in building women 's organisations , in building political parties and helping to build trade unions , that I have had to move from a position of seeing national liberation as solving the question . |
| 10 | The easiest thing to do is stop reading , to find that a whole year has passed without even a glimpse of a business book . |
| 11 | that 's right he says this is Mark , he says come in here a minute , says will you move your car and he says no I wo n't move my car , he says this is a public area and my car is parked there I 've been , been into the shop and I 'm talking to my mates . |
| 12 | Yeah , as you as you heat up the water the gases boil out of it , so if wanted to get rid of the chlorine in your water , boiling it gets rid of quite a lot , it forces the chlorine t to boil out . |
| 13 | HP seems to have at least a couple of options : an immediate Thunderbird response , levelling the playing field with Sun right now — with ships in October — or a big splash in the Autumn , with immediate deliveries . |
| 14 | The revitalised company that started life building its own 16-bit minicomputers , ultimately plunged into bankruptcy and returned from the dead as a library automation systems specialist , may make two more acquisitions this month , president and chief executive Stephen Sadler told the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts — and it expects to make at least an acquisition a month for the rest of the next 12 months . |
| 15 | She does get through quite a lot that 's true . |
| 16 | The fur seal may have up to a hundred , but the Hamadryas makes do with only a handful . |