Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drexel successfully pioneered a mezzanine layer of financing between equity and bank debt for medium-sized American companies . |
| 2 | Those who know better will not rest contented with such a meagre peep of a lake so singularly grand , but will round the hill rather more than another mile to the west , and when the dark lake is full in view , sit down to drink a long look from that favourable point of view . |
| 3 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 4 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 5 | Apart from quartz , silicon and oxygen combine together to form an atomic building-block known as the silicon tetrahedron , with a single atom of silica surrounded by four atoms of oxygen . |
| 6 | When dry , rub down to provide a smooth surface for painting . |
| 7 | With this arrangement , two small or standard mattresses and bases fit together to make a double bed . |
| 8 | Pocket springs can help with differences of up to 4 or 5 stone , or try a zip and link bed with two different mattresses and bases that fit together to make a double bed . |
| 9 | At this stage we want only to make an initial contrast between explaining and understanding . |
| 10 | It is also worthwhile attempting the occasional no airbrake touch down to get a better idea of how far your glider will float . |
| 11 | Transport nevertheless remained a major problem , and as Commandos ' equipment for raiding roles did not include those infantryman 's delights of defensive wire and mines — not , that is , in the normal course — they always had problems in battles of attrition . |
| 12 | Menzieshill still enjoy a three-point advantage with two games to play , but there is now no margin for error as they meet their main contenders , Kelburne , in a final game tomorrow night at the McTaggart Centre . |
| 13 | The Strip and Fit also has an integral screwdriver which can be used in any of three positions to fix wires in the terminals of the plug and to replace the outer cover of the plug . |
| 14 | Babies born several weeks prematurely grow up to have a lower IQ on average by the ages of seven to 10 than children born at full term , according to research reported yesterday . |
| 15 | OOSD/C++ also features a graphical editor that automates the object-oriented structure design notation for C++ , as well as programmes for impact analysis and ensuring the consistency of diagram information . |
| 16 | Micrografx also produces a customized PostScript printer driver , which also offers features over and above the Windows generic version , but it ai n't cheap — it will set you back £100 . |
| 17 | Leogang also has a super leisure and fitness centre , with a heated open-air swimming pool . |
| 18 | Assertive group report back modelling an assertive style and the passive group you report back modelling a passive style of |
| 19 | We want now to introduce a different way of categorizing elite theory approaches , one which does not derive from the historical streams of thinking described so far . |
| 20 | I want now to discuss an important aspect of the Bill which affects Scotland — the council water charge set out in schedule 11 . |
| 21 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ Fortex already has a major presence in the UK through Towers and Co , which is the company 's official importer of chilled and frozen lamb into the UK . |
| 23 | Repetition is something many students avoid at all costs , and in their early music they tend not to repeat a single bar in an entire composition . |
| 24 | Furthermore , they tend not to maintain a clear distinction between the speaker 's intended meaning on the one hand , and the message used to convey that meaning to a listener on the other . |
| 25 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 26 | In this way I hope eventually to get a better appreciation of the daily and seasonal lives of our local birds ( and a few mammals ) . |
| 27 | Those animals put down had a merciful release . |
| 28 | Add the onion and fry together fur a further minute . |
| 29 | Tip in the rubble or ballast and tamp down to form a firm base , leaving sufficient depth for mortar and slabs |
| 30 | A set of mime sketches under the title Speak Easy provide a different kind of stimulus to oral production . |