Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would go out to lunch or perhaps look around a stately home — life became extremely rich because we could control Ruth 's pain with morphine . |
| 2 | Leigh Environmental now had six months to lodge an appeal with the Minister of the Environment , who would decide whether or not to set up a Public Enquiry . |
| 3 | The shape of a hill might be altered by the construction of earthworks , or even taking off a pointed peak . |
| 4 | Put in pan and slowly melt over a low heat , but do not boil . |
| 5 | The station as a point of departure literally and metaphorically took on a particular intensity for the post-First World War generation of young British literati . |
| 6 | THE second law of thermodynamics always arouses interest because it is the only widely applicable law of physics that is not symmetric under time reversal , and so singles out a particular direction of time . |
| 7 | Clearly such references are not merely longwinded substitutes for a name : they draw attention now to this , now to that aspect of the same person , and so build up a many-sided picture of each character . |
| 8 | This is a great development because it allows us to accurately get information about where fish are and so work out a basic picture of the river environment . |
| 9 | One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches . |
| 10 | To take a swab , net the affected fish into a bowl , take a plastic coverglass and gently scrape off a small amount of mucus . |
| 11 | ( vi ) Make preparations by dropping suspension from a Pasteur pipette on clean pre-cooled slides and gently dry over a low gas flame . |
| 12 | I would dearly like to do what one friend I know does , and that is buy one beautiful piece of furniture , or exquisite porcelain , each year from Partridge , who always have the very best , and thus build up a fine collection . |
| 13 | By this time our conscious , if unspoken , strategy was to provoke the police into over-reaction and thus spark off a mass reaction against the authorities . |
| 14 | The greater abundance of mare basalts on the mare than in the highlands is not explained in any detail , but the greater variability of rocks within the highlands could be the outcome of the maria impacts which excavated the Moon to large depths and thus brought up a great variety of layers . |
| 15 | Believing that architectural beauty derived largely from functional and structural efficiency , Anderson constantly attacked the exponents of the Scots Baronial style , and thus ushered in a new era of refinement in Scottish architecture . |
| 16 | and this that and the other but people must have heard what went on and and you know the next morning they 'd see a black eye and just carry out a normal conversation as though |
| 17 | So it is not implausible for critics to say that the solid-state detectors are unreliable and somehow bring about a sharp distortion in the spectra . |
| 18 | Getting fit is about small amounts of physical exercise , starting slowly and gradually building up a regular routine . |
| 19 | You would think that these rabbits would have no chance against the combined land and air assaults of ferrets and hawk , but they were incredibly fast and usually disappeared down a safe hole before our Harris 's could get hold of them , even though the Harris 's hawk moves like lightning . |
| 20 | But after the convention , he launched his campaign with a spirited bus trip from New York to the Midwest and quickly ran up a daunting lead in the polls and held it until the campaign 's end . |
| 21 | McMahon was involved in the build-up to three of the four goals and also came out a clear winner in what was , at times , a bad-tempered midfield confrontation with Batty and McAllister . |
| 22 | In his new post , he will initiate a graduate course on petroleum policy and economics to complement the Centre 's legal courses , and also set up a new MBA ( oil and gas ) programme , the first of its kind in Scotland . |
| 23 | He joined the Palace in the summer of 1961 , and immediately struck up a superb and exciting partnership of ball-playing skills with Johnny Byrne , as newly promoted Palace made an immediate impact upon Division Three . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't take it all in , ’ she told him and then let out a deep sigh and gave a small shrug of her shoulders . |
| 25 | He hoisted up a plank to sit on and then let down a small rope . |
| 26 | For a senior job it should not be regarded as a burden to see 12 people and then draw up a short list of three or four . |
| 27 | More topically Smith drives home the absurdity of the present British water industry installing meters in households and then setting up a huge bureaucracy to monitor them and gather payment — a move that will make water much more expensive ( and thus more attractive to the private companies which will eventually provide it ) . |
| 28 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 29 | And we used to do thirty-six holes a day ; caddie for one player in the morning and then pick up a fresh bag for the afternoon . |
| 30 | She was the last person living to speak the language of the native islanders , so it was a pity that she could no longer use her tongue , except now and then to rasp out a harsh fragment of a song . |