Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |
| 2 | He flung himself into athletics and , eventually became a top-flight international sprinter ; which is just as well , for , had he not realized his early promise , he would have been stuck in a sports shop with no qualifications — which would not have reflected what he considered his genuine educational aptitude . |
| 3 | Update Baseline allows a user to incorporate a specified list of approved modules into a hierarchical package structure , thereby allowing a new approved baseline to be automatically defined . |
| 4 | The system will then reverse its motion and begin to contract , becoming once again a great ball of fire , and another ‘ big bang ’ will eventually trigger a new creative era . |
| 5 | I happened to be looking for somewhere to mount a small African sculpture I had bought and came upon De Biasi in Tottenham Mews just off Tottenham Court Toad . |
| 6 | Trout are being helped to breed more successfully using a high powered water jet . |
| 7 | This project examines the decision making process involved in successfully launching a new electronic product within the health care market . |
| 8 | Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 9 | Then he opened his eyes , spoke a few words and eventually tried a few tentative steps round his hospital room . |
| 10 | Thus where during the trader 's unsolicited visit an offer is made which is accepted only later , the customer effectively has a longer cooling-off period . |
| 11 | Thus , in his discussion of Modernism relative to Lukács and Brecht : ‘ to highlight the fact that Modernism shares with Romanticism a ‘ subjectified occasionalism , is not thereby to pass a negative aesthetic judgement on the works of art grouped together under the former label . |
| 12 | They made realistic models of different types of cuckoo eggs ( realistic enough to fool a leading British ornithologist who unwittingly recorded one as part of a clutch he discovered ) and placed them in the nests of reed warblers to examine the response of the hosts . |
| 13 | Inside lay a green woollen balaclava , a green sleeveless pullover and a pair of navy blue corduroy shorts . |
| 14 | This creates a feeling of urgency that is cultivated by the gearbox , which has ratios close enough to support a seamless aural attack all the way from standstill until fifth is selected at something over 130mph . |
| 15 | Strong enough to whip a 1 50-kilogramme seal out of the water with one paw , able to swim many kilometres in freezing seas and quite capable of climbing up almost vertical ice-faces , they represent one of nature 's supreme examples of adaptation to an inhospitable environment . |
| 16 | The carbon dioxide produced by respiration of living creatures and used by plants during the day usually only produces a relatively-small daily cycle of pH change , which is further buffered if any hardness is in the water . |
| 17 | Each year we naturally lose a few active teachers through ill-health , retirement or when having babies ! |
| 18 | ‘ I was severely criticised because my hair was too long and loose , apparently reflecting a loose bourgeois morality ! |
| 19 | In fact , I only became a half decent painter after I got into art college . |
| 20 | If you are very good otherwise at restricting your fat intake , this combination with black pepper is much better if the pineapple is fried in a little butter , for its juices and the butter together make a spectacular caramelised sauce . |
| 21 | Boer nationalism merely erected a massive legislative panoply for racial discrimination . |
| 22 | Within the Six , the strongest support came from the West German Finance Minister , Ludwig Erhard , who had long favoured a broader European grouping than that being developed by the Six . |
| 23 | On the one hand , exogenous marriages ( for example cross-cousin marriage , i.e. mother 's brother 's daughter ) can strengthen alliances — that is , help build a network of affines , and perhaps bring a prestigious maternal uncle into the lineage . |
| 24 | N.B. : We have only listed a few Zionist atrocities as to list them all , as with the crimes of the IRA , would fill a book or two . |
| 25 | Almost that he is twisted , leant over to one side , he perhaps has a severe spinal problem . |
| 26 | The colleges will be able to produce their own units perhaps to meet a specific local need . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought I might get just to chat to one of them , but instead I suddenly found a whole bleeding pack of them behind me . |
| 28 | The chief in the next village has a dozen wives and a lot of juicy young daughters who would better suit a passionate young man like you . " |
| 29 | It is worthwhile briefly examining Lukacs 's ideas on socialist realism at this juncture since they not only provide a constructive critical alternative to the mindless ideological stance adopted by Zhdanov , Radek and Stetsky , but also broaden the global conceptual framework within which to examine Nizan 's communist novels . |
| 30 | Hence the many women who , for domestic reasons , only want a part-time local job may have their unemployment benefit and income support reduced or withdrawn . |