Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism . |
2 | Here , an allergy to chloroform was successfully treated using a homoeopathic preparation of chloroform . |
3 | Chelmsford 's sixth gold medal was earned by Simon Bown , an unemployed 18-year-old who is widely tipped to get an international vest this Summer throwing the hammer . |
4 | ‘ I believe someone somewhere has got a good idea . |
5 | In a Commons statement , Mr Clarke said : ‘ We would very much prefer to see a full accident and emergency service provided by trained ambulancemen , but that is impossible while the unions continue to insist on the 14 conditions which they have imposed . |
6 | Commission chairman , P.K. Iyengar , claims that such work is labour intensive , and hence India will be better placed to offer an economical service than more developed nations . |
7 | But in the search for such pacts or agreements , the opposition parties will necessarily be drawn closer together , and the campaign for tactical voting will gather force and develop a presence that will make it better placed to make a major impact in the next election . |
8 | And if Jardines sought to sell out of Hongkong Land , it would be better placed to demand a hefty premium for offering effective control without the need to buy out smaller shareholders . |
9 | The cyclic quadrilateral so formed has an important property ; its opposite angles add to 180° . |
10 | The last delivery from the Royal Oak Colliery in South Wales had amounted to only half the tonnage ordered the rest apparently diverted to fulfil a similar order from another preserved railway . |
11 | Although using a road map , she managed to lose herself and so stopped to ask a young man the way . |
12 | Subsequent investigators have attempted to read deep , allegorical , psychological , and even transcendental meanings into the book ; it is more likely that Stoker merely intended to write a popular horror story by taking an ancient legend , placing it in a contemporary setting , and garnishing his tale with blood , thunder , and damsels in distress . |
13 | The seventy-five years preceding 1066 were a time of great activity in the Canterbury scriptorium , which produced a number of magnificently-illustrated gospel and service-books , as well as many more mundane volumes apparently intended to form a new cathedral library . |
14 | In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives . |
15 | She 'd only intended to buy a small tin of paint and one brush . |
16 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
17 | Presumably , the Met only wants to put a limited number of TAFs on the system in order to save money and work ( it costs more to have a larger number of pages for your ‘ area ’ on the Prestel database ) . |
18 | And the seams of the canister are only designed to withstand a certain amount of pressure . |
19 | For a cold blooded insect , the main reason for seasonal migration is probably the need to be in a warm enough place to allow an active life ; a warm blooded bird does not have that problem . |
20 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
21 | ‘ Bringing all this together has required a great deal of planning , co-operation between numerous organisations and many long hours of work , ’ he added . |
22 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
23 | Lewis claimed that this was tantamount to ‘ breathing a lie through silver ’ , a riposte which Tolkien felt sufficiently challenging to require a written reply . |
24 | We would only need to witness a marked increase in trade and there will certainly be an increase in demand why do you think trade has increased ? and trade is n't a necessary condition it 's just that trade has tended to grow at the same time as erm as demand is growing . |
25 | If you only want to borrow a small amount , a better option is to take a further advance from your existing lender ( less than £100 to arrange ) or , alternatively , a top-up loan from a second lender . |
26 | Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood . |
27 | The dwellings will be so designed to provide a satisfactory level of privacy for adjoining residential properties . |
28 | The pupils can manipulate the data or screen image , experimenting and taking risks which can be swiftly deleted leaving a professional image on screen unspoiled by scratchings and rubbings out . |
29 | Commuters to the capital obviously decided to take a long weekend or were put up in hotels overnight by their employers , said a spokesman . |
30 | Here it is important to note that , despite the burden of many of the choices we can now make , people leave themselves with just as weighty a problem by refusing to recognize the options open to them , either putting themselves too easily in other people 's hands or not allowing themselves enough space to make an informed choice . |