Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hostile Conservative press environment into which the nationalised organisations were born , and the unusually vituperative and irresponsible anti-nationalisation tone of Churchill 's parliamentary opposition , also strengthened their preferences for keeping a low profile politically . |
| 2 | Workmen alerted police after noticing a red car apparently abandoned in the quarry on the Horseshoe Pass between Llangollen and Ruthin . |
| 3 | TOUGH Leicester defender Steve Walsh is planning to clean up his act after serving a three-match ban already this season . |
| 4 | After spending a futile week there , he returned to Petrograd where he found lodgings . |
| 5 | After spending a few weeks there , he flew to Frankfurt on 29 May , where he rejoined Mary-Claude and the children , who had meanwhile been looked after by Mother Teresa 's Sisters of Charity . |
| 6 | In 1788 , his published proposals for forming a veterinary school here having met with no success , Vial married an English lady ‘ of great accomplishments ’ , and returned to Paris with her , his knowledge of the English language no doubt showing some improvement as time passed . |
| 7 | Whenever you use a semicolon , note that you also had the option of using a full stop instead . |
| 8 | It seems paradoxical that man must attend to the AL of maintaining a safe environment even during leisure activities . |
| 9 | Will he confirm that the capital cost of the school is no different from the cost of building a new school anywhere , that the funding per pupil is no different compared with any other state pupils and that the evil campaign by Nottingham county council would deny the most deprived children in our inner city a first-class education ? |
| 10 | Why had n't Maxie thought of building a new house there , the old stick in the mud ? |
| 11 | The deal , which was agreed by the two airlines in January after BA had pulled out of its original proposed $750 million link-up with USAir in December , confirms the strong negotiating position BA has always been in and puts its aim of becoming a global airline firmly back on course . |
| 12 | The deal , which was agreed by the two airlines in January after BA had pulled out of its original proposed $750 million link-up with USAir in December , confirms the strong negotiating position BA has always been in and puts its aim of becoming a global airline firmly back on course . |
| 13 | On broader questions , like physics-and-biology , our understanding is considerably less and complementarity is in danger of becoming a descriptive catchword rather than an interpretative principle . |
| 14 | Delegates voted in favour of becoming a political party rather than remaining a more loosely organized movement , and approved a draft statute emphasizing the development of a market economy and support for private business . |
| 15 | So er if you 're thinking of becoming a super model if there is anybody out there who 's thinking of becoming a super model perhaps you 'll give me a ring and er and I can break the bad news to you personally . |
| 16 | With the recent mushrooming of the AA 's commercial interests was it not in danger of becoming a big shop rather than a service organisation ? |
| 17 | Bruce Davidson was making a meal of explaining a straightforward case essentially because he was trying to impress Catherine Crane . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the idea ( which many people have held at different times ) of a national ballet for South Africa has not come to fruition even now , four decades later , any more than the dream which John cherished when working in Germany of forming a national company there . |
| 19 | De Klerk reaffirmed his commitment to the principle of establishing a transitional government as soon as possible and the creation of a new parliament in which all racial groups would be represented . |
| 20 | In Cowan v Kitson Insulations Ltd [ 1992 ] PIQR Q19 it was emphasised that the plaintiff should never be treated disadvantageously by reason of seeking a final award even if a provisional award appears suitable . |
| 21 | even fewer would deny that the CMHTs were precipitated into a virtual policy vacuum and were in effect used as one means of developing a broader framework rather than as a means of implementing an already established strategy . |
| 22 | He reiterated the necessity of remaining in Okinawa and of developing a permanent garrison there . |
| 23 | Done in the Jamesian manner , Jim would doubtless find himself credited with psychological subtleties and complexities of which he is quite unaware ; but still one might hope that the writer would succeed in suggesting the highly distinctive flavour of his talk , his inimitable way of retailing a diverting anecdote leisurely and with a modicum of circumlocution , from which in due time the point of the story is sure to emerge . |
| 24 | The cost of fitting a new phone also drops — from £152.75 to £99 . |
| 25 | ( Table 1 also shows the results of fitting a red-noise component only . ) |
| 26 | Mitterrand had earlier lent his name to one of the many ( abortive ( bills intended to give the agency a status in law : now , Marin achieved the task of securing a political consensus sufficiently broad to secure the passage through Parliament of a law ending the provisional status of AFP . |
| 27 | The result was the great British compromise ; Tawell would be charged with the lesser crime of possessing a forged bond rather than actually forging it . |
| 28 | CHEMOXY , the Middlesbrough-based chemicals company , is on the verge of clinching a long-term contract just days after it revealed a £4m investment in the business . |
| 29 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
| 30 | ’ Something there , ’ he says , and he plunges the hook in again , this time with the intention of getting a secure hold so that he can heave out whatever it is into sight . |