Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No conscious effort is required , and it is sometimes possible to carry on a non-relevant activity , e.g. holding a conversation , whilst performing the activity . |
| 2 | It 'll be interesting to see how a major label tries to curtail their waywardness , but for now you 're wide awake in a dream thinking of a more menacing early ACR , what with horns like scythes , found voices babbling , shouted , hoarse semi-raps and two funky drummers . |
| 3 | The study of functions was originally an offshoot of the study of properties of curves , geometrically defined , so it is interesting to see how a modern definition of function , expressed in terms of the set concept , is equivalent to what you would , in the case of a real valued function of one real variable , naturally think of as the graph of the function . |
| 4 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 5 | The Ulster Unionist Party , led by Mr James Molyneaux , has been careful to rule out a formal coalition and will decide on an ‘ issue by issue ’ basis whether to support a minority government . |
| 6 | From Trap 6 over the testing 620-metre course , Lady Riptide ( 5.59 ) should quickly draw clear to set up a commanding lead . |
| 7 | This skirts the base of the pinnacled north ridge and reaches a ridge beyond , where the final stage of the ascent , of daunting aspect , requires a very steep scramble up a narrowing spire to its airy top . |
| 8 | ( Though in fact she would not have said ‘ lumbered ’ , not because she was afraid to put forward an unpopular view , but because she was an honourable and exact woman . |
| 9 | Rather than pursuing the discussion at an abstract level , it seems sensible to give here a brief synopsis of a selection of French fabliaux which can be regarded as highly typical of the genre , and which represent a range of subtypes within the genre : tales of sensual appetite or greed , adultery and fornication , sexual naivety and sexual fetishism ; a tale of robbers , the macabre joke of the corpse that apparently either can not or will not lie still , and a lavatorial tale of turds . |
| 10 | There was an immediate indication that he was prepared to turn over a new leaf . |
| 11 | Throughout our period , however , we see that Whigs were prepared to hold up an independent standard by which to assess the legitimacy of authority , that of fundamental law or natural law , and they were willing to challenge the legitimacy of established authority ( whether royal or Parliamentary ) if power was exercised in violation of people 's natural rights . |
| 12 | This is the average number of hours that each worker is willing to supply over a given time period . |
| 13 | I 'm tired and depressed and afraid to take up a good job offer . |
| 14 | It is always interesting to notice how a fit hunter will puff and sweat quite soon after being worked in a manege , if he is not used to working in such a way . |
| 15 | ( The Prinsep case was unusual in that the family were prepared to take out a private prosecution in the hope of retrieving their property . ) |
| 16 | The choice indicates how much the state is willing to take on an active role of managing national resources for greater international competitiveness , and in what form . |
| 17 | The French carried out a successful attack on Albany , which was very close to the northern frontier of New York settlement up the Hudson Valley , but it was still not likely that they could reach the coastal towns which were the heart of English settlement . |
| 18 | Suppose that the government , guided by these false prophets , decides that it is prepared to trade off a positive rate of inflation for a lower unemployment rate . |
| 19 | On one hand , it is possible to pick out a dominant instance by its relationship with other aspects of a social structure . |
| 20 | tutorial programme , we talked last , last term er and I said that I 'd like to as soon as possible put up a complete programme of titles , it would be nice if we could have a little er what am I supposed to call them ? |
| 21 | This makes it possible to set up a two-way conversation using only one pair of wires . |
| 22 | When establishing a subsidiary , local legal and taxation regulations must make it possible to set up a profitable subsidiary and allow the parent company to extract profits from the country . |
| 23 | In others , it may be thought appropriate to arrange merely a casual introduction to the office for a couple of weeks or so at a nominal remuneration . |
| 24 | Even excluding these the following represents only a small sample . |
| 25 | Until this is achieved it is impossible to carry out a useful evaluation of the many alternative treatments available for patients with the complex problem of extrahepatic bile duct stricture . |
| 26 | All in all , it 's easy to see why a small-town club called the Rovers made the fancy dans in the big cities . |
| 27 | It is easy to see why a new religion has grown about them . |
| 28 | But when the subject in question is incest , it is easy to see why a little coaxing to even recognise the scale of the problem is needed . |
| 29 | It is easy to write down an equivalent definition of unc that is a straightforward recursion on syntax . |
| 30 | But in a cold , late spring I find it difficult if not impossible to work up a good tilth in time for mangolds . |