Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 2 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 3 | What looks like thinning in a major unit may turn out to be something much more complicated in the smaller constituent units . |
| 4 | A COLLEGE course about former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher looks like turning into a giant flop . |
| 5 | Whether ‘ the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate ’ depends on assigning a high probability , which in turn depends on appealing to a well-established generalization . |
| 6 | Oxford United say their survival depends on moving to a new ground . |
| 7 | The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 8 | Standing matchbox Place a matchbox on your hand and , by just opening your hand , it gradually rises until ending in an upright position . |
| 9 | The very foundation of our education rests in meeting under a common roof , whether it be the education of the classroom , the church or citizenship . |
| 10 | It feels like passing through a political demonstration . |
| 11 | ANYONE who feels like investing in a few grams of silver should call up a certain Carroll Jones in his office in Washington . |
| 12 | It feels like sleeping on a vast resounding shore |
| 13 | But we 've also had an artist from the Art Week event , which the Rainforest Festival overlaps with going into a chosen school , with a member of Friends of the Earth , we give them a talk about rainforest , and they do the , I do n't know if you 've seen them in the buses , the sort of advertising slots , we 've got 80 of those slots on the buses throughout the rainforest festival , and the children are actually drawing pictures for them . |
| 14 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 15 | Passengers clocked up bonus points by flying with a particular airline , but these could be cashed in only with the same airline . |
| 16 | Begins with moaning in a long hoarse throat : |
| 17 | Satisfaction and motivation which comes from working as an essential part of a dedicated management team or multi-disciplinary project team . |
| 18 | Attention is consequently focused primarily on the manner in which a given novel succeeds or fails in conforming to an abstract , archetypal model of the genre , and only lip service is paid to the manner in which politics , ideology and history are mediated in the texts themselves . |
| 19 | When it comes to moving to a new part of the country , a better standard of living is usually high one everyone 's list . |
| 20 | Since he re-sells as owner it follows that he can keep any profit he makes by re-selling at a higher price than the original buyer had agreed to pay . |
| 21 | It usually works by acting as an external focus for the electric fields generated by the brain , and directs them at a receptive machine or conditioned brain elsewhere . |