Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maccoby and Jacklin , authors of the standard review of psychological sex differences , note that even a study like their own , which finds mostly similarities , turns inexorably into a trait psychology ( 1974 : 3ff ) , centred on masculinity and femininity , and the differences between them . |
| 2 | The answer is that they will become superfluous , to be replaced by a new prototype that looks remarkably like a rugby league player . |
| 3 | Physically , it looks much like a video cassette recorder with a matt black livery chosen , no doubt , to suggest its connection with the world of hi-fi audio , televisions and video . |
| 4 | Her tameness drops away like a spring moult , and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else . |
| 5 | The track now heads southwards on a forest road and then heathery paths . |
| 6 | And remember that the benefits wo n't usually change with inflation — so a figure that looks more like a telephone number now than a pension may be much smaller , in real terms , when you retire . |
| 7 | Sebastiane , the six-foot-two model who looks more like a champion hurdler than a clothes-horse , strides into the room in flat shoes . |
| 8 | Looks more like a cotton wool factory than a cherry orchard . |
| 9 | ‘ Looks more like a home prescription to me , ’ the man said gloomily when he returned with a phial of pills . |
| 10 | A far cry from her ‘ strong woman with positive aggression ’ image , the photo looks more like a family snapshot . |
| 11 | And he dresses more like a rock star than a businessman . |
| 12 | Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World . |
| 13 | Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands . |
| 14 | Doherty now looks forward to a quarter-final clash with Steve Davis . |
| 15 | FRED TRUEMAN meets JOE JOHNSON as he starts again after a heart attack |
| 16 | This equates well with a quality assurance management system in which the procedure level is reserved for critical business processes . |
| 17 | The garment is so peculiar that we might dismiss it as a quirk of the rhyton carver 's imagination , but for the fact that it features again on a seal impression from Agia Triadha , where the rhyton also originated . |
| 18 | And so he turns aside under a pine tree , lays his sword and oliphant under him and lies down to die : he makes his confession , holds up his right glove to God and angels come and carry his soul to Paradise . |
| 19 | The tube of Tenax then fits directly into a gas chromatograph . |
| 20 | The West German Labour Court , for instance , is empowered to settle labour disputes by means of statutory binding decisions whereas the Irish Labour Court acts only as a conciliation body . |
| 21 | With r = 0 , Equation ( 2.7.1.5 ) becomes unc Hence if we choose co to make k1 zero , it will contain no contribution from x1 , and , as r increases sufficiently to a value s , ( 2.7.1.5 ) will tend to unc The condition unc means that we can express one element of co in terms of the remaining n — 1 . |
| 22 | ‘ Telekinesis ’ roars away like a kamikaze jet nearing target . |
| 23 | When it roars away from a traffic light , its burning tyres leave a patch of smoking rubber on the road behind . |
| 24 | she wears outside on a safety pin , |
| 25 | In use , the card acts just like a disk drive but it responds instantaneously . |
| 26 | Despite the ominous row of trespassing hatchbacks , we saw nobody on the ridge at all , and luxuriated in the surprising solitude that one should n't expect so near a town like Fort William , which grows more like a Highland Gorbals every day . |
| 27 | You may find that distance closes quickly during a combination sequence and you and your opponent end up facing each other within reverse punch range . |
| 28 | Age Concern acts also as a pressure group on behalf of the elderly , publishing information on their needs and on services available . |
| 29 | The main voluntary conservation body in the Auvergne is Auvergne et Nature which acts mainly as a pressure group drawing attention to environmental problems . |
| 30 | Under the impressed constant voltage , the inductor current raises linearly to a peak magnitude Î L ( if saturation is avoided ) which is dependent upon the value of L1 and the time T O N during which the switch remains closed . |