Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 2 | This is fundamentally useless and it is amazing that anyone ever manages to get a properly aligned document as a result . |
| 3 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 4 | The defendant dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary of a port authority , was granted a long lease of part of a disused naval dockyard and applied to the plaintiff local authority for planning permission to develop the land as a commercial port . |
| 5 | I find it an insult to my bottom that I was forced to sit on it while playing this badly designed excuse for a game . |
| 6 | She furiously grasped hold of a clump of soggy weed and after more slipping and sliding finally managed to heave herself out . |
| 7 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 8 | His ideas are being applied in settings as diverse as a rich Dallas school ( one computer for every five pupils ) and an institution for the severely handicapped ( who use their turtles to thereby explore space in a way otherwise denied them ) . |
| 9 | It 's these lectures which finally unbalance Bob Roberts , which shifts from crisp satire to stodgy tract under the sheer density of Robbins ’ disgust with US politics , losing along the way the warped rock ‘ n ’ roll and documentary trappings which give bite to the first film intelligent enough to see assassination as a career move for the victim . |
| 10 | I am only using jumping as an example . |
| 11 | He lied about his address and so received methadone on a maintenance basis . |
| 12 | As chairman of this group , I obviously have financial people , accountants , treasury people , lawyers , personnel people , property people and so on who all make part of a team . |
| 13 | Shortly afterwards he apparently became tutor to a son or sons of Sir Thomas Hoby [ q.v. ] , of Bisham Abbey , Berkshire , whose wife Elizabeth [ q.v. ] commended him to her brother-in-law William Cecil ( later Baron Burghley , q.v. ) , whom Hayes apparently served in unknown capacities for at least twenty years . |
| 14 | His steady stream of speeches , interviews and policy interventions only make sense as a bid for the leadership . |
| 15 | But many commentators have long regarded synergy as a will-o'-the-wisp , arguing for the strategy of critical mass in selected global markets that ICI has belatedly adopted . |
| 16 | A hardy , naturally polled breed of a type which has been in southwest Scotland for centuries , the Galloway is capable of growing a thick , shaggy coat of long , rain-shedding hairs over its thick , soft , mossy undercoat to protect itself in the cold , damp climate of the region . |
| 17 | He said of the Nicaraguan literacy campaign : ‘ literacy only has meaning in a society undergoing revolutionary change ’ . |
| 18 | The office was small enough to provide experience in a range of areas , covering a wide variety of companies from subsidiaries of large plcs to sole traders . |
| 19 | Wealth-holders are faced with the need to keep as little of their savings as possible in the form of cash or current accounts in banks because money in these forms earns no interest and so loses value in a period of inflation . |
| 20 | Perhaps to resist manipulation by a cuckoo you need bigger eyes or a bigger brain , which would have overhead costs . |
| 21 | The castle did not prove strong enough to resist attack by a Norse raiding force in 1230 . |
| 22 | So wherever I go I 've only got quarter of an hour . |
| 23 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
| 24 | Speculation on their colourful lives and enormous bank balances have provided much needed excitement in a sea of bland , beige tailoring . |
| 25 | They were content to stay in the back-streets of our towns making their own coffins and providing a much needed service to a community which was either unqualified , unwilling or unable to extend to such outrageous luxuries . |
| 26 | But whatever the motive , the Maestro and Montego are providing much needed work at a time when work is hard to come by . |
| 27 | They provide much needed colour at a time when many perennials and certainly most shrubs have finished , but without appearing overwhelmingly garish . |
| 28 | This is a pity as PostScript is a much needed standard in a world of millions of PCs , all with different print output ! |
| 29 | The language of section 20(1) ( iv ) ( b ) is wide enough to cover larceny by a bailee or part owner and embezzlement ; but it is a matter of dispute whether it does so or whether it is limited to those types of misappropriation , originally not criminal , for which the Act of 1901 was intended to provide . |
| 30 | Section 40(1) permits the court only to award compensation on an application made by the employee which inter alia establishes that the latter made the patented invention which is of outstanding benefit to the employer and that ‘ by reason of those facts it is just that the employee should be awarded compensation ’ . |