Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it rather rich for eating as a table cheese , but a few spoonfuls stirred into hot pasta is delicious . |
| 2 | This is structured by hourly changes of sail or course , so that the crew can learn as much as possible about handling in the time they are aboard . |
| 3 | Beaten again : Martina Navratilova lost in two straight sets at Flushing Meadow yesterday but she in not definite about retiring from the game . |
| 4 | I lost my temper too — I 'm sorry for shouting about the fire . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of people feel shy about going into a Tax Office , so this is a good opportunity for them to get any help they need , ’ explained Peter Guy , the Inland Revenue 's Customer Service Manager in the province . |
| 6 | He jumped , feeling guilty about staring into the car . |
| 7 | Salmond had been the recipient of abuse all that day , mainly from Labour for voting with the Government on Maastricht the night before . |
| 8 | FIREFIGHTER Gary Madill is lucky to be alive after crashing through a roof and smashing 25 feet to the ground . |
| 9 | Do n't be embarrassed about lying on a bed in the shop to try it out , and make sure you test the actual size you want to buy . |
| 10 | The reader of a description needs therefore to be careful about accepting as a description anything more than is actually visible on the canvas or in the sculpture . |
| 11 | You 'd have to know the pilotage , and be very careful about taking in a vessel of any size . |
| 12 | Agents Mathews and Goodman are looking for rents of around ££10 a sq ft for space in Martin 's Building as it becomes free for letting with a range of suites up to 14,000 sq ft being available . |
| 13 | Engineering is a professional subject and the BEng and MEng degrees offered in the School are all accredited by the appropriate Professional Engineering Institution as acceptable for leading to the status of Chartered Engineer . |
| 14 | So a word of warning : be careful of relying on a person too far away from yourself . |
| 15 | I would suggest ‘ He was a great realist ’ or perhaps ‘ He was never afraid of looking like a prat ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 17 | But it is absurd to be unduly afraid of borrowing by the state . |
| 18 | 'Are you afraid of going into the glory of our Lord Hapexamendios ? ’ |
| 19 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 20 | If you are afraid of talking to a crowd , remember that this is not a crowd of strangers , but a crowd of friends . |
| 21 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 22 | Let us reconsider the example of the person who is afraid of shopping in the supermarket ( see Figure 4.8 ) . |
| 23 | Wanting to be sick and afraid of choking under the gag . |
| 24 | IBM Corp president Jack Kuehler says that we 've all got it all wrong with regard to the company 's $1,000m cut in 1993 research and development budget ( UX No 416 ) : he says that the cut is off the gross budget , which is $9,000m , not the net budget , which is $6,000m , the difference being that the net figure takes account of software development costs written off as incurred ; most people reckon that a cut of $1,000 is a cut of $1,000m and is a very big sum to lose in one year . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , what 's so wrong with going to the lavatory ? |
| 26 | If people need a rest on the way what 's wrong with sitting on the ground ? |
| 27 | There is nothing wrong with starting in the middle or wherever you find it easiest to begin , but beware of leaving the most difficult sections until the end . |
| 28 | Todd deems le Play 's schema incomplete , however , because it ignores a further crucial discriminating variable — whether marriage is endogamous or exogamous with regard to the family . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the registration of anti-lactoferrin antibodies in a case of Campylobacter colitis in this study is interesting with regard to the possibility of cross immunisation against microbial antigen(s) . |
| 30 | ‘ But note that this is quite different from attributing to the Church in its established structures the dignity of being the Kingdom of Christ . |