Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no time to spare for embarrassment , due to shoes totally unsuitable for climbing down a cliff path . |
| 2 | Is it any different from giving up a liberty to smoke ? |
| 3 | We shall be particularly interested in discussing how a recipient might come to comprehend the producer 's intended message on a particular occasion , and how the requirements of the particular recipient(s) , in definable circumstances , influence the organisation of the producer 's discourse . |
| 4 | But she added that she understood that AT&T was interested in setting up a competitor to Telecom Eireann . |
| 5 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 6 | Beforehand , the pretence that he was interested in putting together a documentary series on psychic phenomena had seemed a good one . |
| 7 | Rather than bringing about increased skills portability , YTS has proved instrumental in bringing about a sharpening of labour market segmentation , as the conditions surrounding entry to jobs at all levels has become more formalized and rigidified . |
| 8 | ‘ Sincerely believe that RR can be instrumental in bringing about an end to Iran/Iraq war — a la Roosevelt w/Russo Japanese War in 1904 , ’ North wrote to Poindexter in September 1986 . |
| 9 | The process of formally stating aims can be instrumental in bringing about an examination of assumptions if undertaken in a self-searching way . |
| 10 | In 1861 she was instrumental in setting up a home for workhouse girls sent out to service , so that they would not have to mix with women of bad character . |
| 11 | Currently , one of the rather loosely applied definitive differences between plant and animal life is that plants can be propagated in either of two ways , sexually by means of seed , which involves male and female contributions from different plants or from different parts of the same plant , or asexually ( vegetatively ) by means of cutting and layering , which is analogous to cutting off an arm or a leg and growing an entirely new individual from such a part into a whole new body . |
| 12 | A man serving life for murdering a policeman has been found guilty of beating up a prison officer at a high security jail . |
| 13 | Archaeologists , anthropologists and psychologists are all guilty of shovelling up a multitude of references to the feminine and labelling the heap as the ‘ Great Mother ’ . |
| 14 | The very year when Mary offered her kingdom to France saw the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , that colossal and most admired figure of the sixteenth century , who had achieved the impossible by holding together an inheritance which sprawled across Europe . |
| 15 | The Liberal Democrats complained that too many schools have outside lavatories ; that the Tories were profligate in setting up a chair of maritime history at a local university ; and that they had spent too much on a ceremonial mace . |
| 16 | Combined operations became the commando 's métier and he would become as accustomed to calling up a battleship 's gunnery officer or the leader of a flight of rocket firing Typhoon aircraft as he might be radioing for mortar fire from his own Heavy Weapons Troop . |
| 17 | The Queen is very quick at picking up a clue and following it through without giving the game away . |
| 18 | Bishop Lacey — our first Bishop — was desirous of setting up a Guild to oversee the making of vestments and the provision of linen items for the altar . |
| 19 | Anything which makes rigging and de-rigging more difficult increases the risk of someone getting tired of holding up a wing-tip and so letting it droop or even drop . |
| 20 | The company has an existing OEM agreement with DEC , which offers AVS on its Ultrix systems — AVS is confident of pinning down an Alpha RISC port for its solution too . |
| 21 | Now he is confident of shaking off a hamstring strain and extending his ever-present League record to 86 matches since his £1 million move from Leicester . |
| 22 | These conditions can be very useful in setting up a user search profile , which is one reason that information retrieval systems often use a serial file for new accessions , which are matched against user profiles intended to inform users of the latest accessions in their subject field . |
| 23 | ‘ My father 's deeply involved in setting up a golf course in Cornwall and he 's taken Margaret and Suzie down there with him . |
| 24 | I was involved in setting up a charity called SNIP which is a Special Needs Information Point for parents and carers of children with special needs to get more information out to them about benefits or help in any way . |
| 25 | I am involved in setting up a group for day centre users with physical disabilities and want to inform disability service users of the new Community Care Act . |
| 26 | Land in the more rural parts of the constituency is virtually covered with placards urging voters to support Mr Bates and since the by-election he has been involved in setting up a forum for local farmers to air their views . |
| 27 | Any legal costs involved in setting up a timeshare scheme . |
| 28 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |
| 29 | This involves discussion between the manager and the subordinates involved in carrying out a decision , but the manager retains the right to make the decision himself . |
| 30 | The Exchange 's executive director Sergey Starodubov has said in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant that the majority of offers from foreign firms amount to the foreign partners being responsible for most of the hard currency expenditure involved in carrying out a project . |