Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You really think I want to see a stunningly beautiful woman strung out on drugs ? ’ |
| 2 | If you want to see a very Greek place that is neither the urban mess of contemporary Athens nor the deracinated tourist prettiness of some of the islands , go to Aegina . |
| 3 | Instead they want to see a more gradual approach backed by a cut in interest rates . |
| 4 | ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’ |
| 5 | It is usually staffed by Macintosh enthusiasts who think that they are onto a good thing and often appear to enjoy a remarkably short life span … |
| 6 | Work schemes of this type are , none the less , especially difficult to fund , and neither the NHS nor social services have regarded them as their responsibility , a situation which must change if we want to provide a more fulfilling life for people with mental disorder . |
| 7 | Rather , they appear to demand a relatively straightforward attempt at a political reading of the situation rather than the citing of some supposed mental or cultural condition . |
| 8 | The genetic view might at first sight appear to constitute a supremely historical way of thinking about literature , as the literary text was explained in terms of its causes and its origins . |
| 9 | I propose to use a fairly dark hardwood , or even stained oak depending on the cost . |
| 10 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |
| 11 | The fact that some deaf people appear to use a completely different form of coding just as effectively , makes it essential that some re-assessment of the models be made . |
| 12 | One intriguing possibility is that the proteins encoded by MCC and APC interact to form a biologically active complex . |
| 13 | Want to build a more positive outlook . |
| 14 | We want to pursue a more in-house policy with the health authority and create an HIV co-ordinator post and put money aside for domiciliary care ’ . |
| 15 | However , statements from Ministers and interpretations in the press in the months leading up to the publication of Working for patients appear to describe a rather different concept of the ‘ internal market ’ — a patient-led system . |
| 16 | However , statements from Ministers and interpretations in the press in the months leading up to the publication of the White Paper appear to describe a rather different concept of the ‘ Internal Market ’ — a patient-led system . |
| 17 | Halkieriids appear to represent a very early stage of mollusc evolution . |
| 18 | The lateral arm plates appear to have a more open calcite skeleton giving the plate a spongy appearance . |
| 19 | Macbeth and Lady Macbeth appear to have a very intense relationship |
| 20 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 21 | In addition we clearly want to have a relatively small scale of capital fund available for a wide variety of the needs and I have identified leisure uses , traffic calming , environmental improvements , that 's the ones which I . |
| 22 | There are some exceptional occasions , when management want to convey a very precise message to a large number of employees , where reading the presentation may be justified . |
| 23 | I 'm leaving school soon and I want to get a fairly good report , you know . ’ |
| 24 | At first glance , therefore , concessive holists appear to take a purely pragmatic view of the relations between holism and individualism . |
| 25 | Scottish libraries appear to take a less totalitarian view . |
| 26 | They expect to co-develop a significantly enhanced version of Gradient 's NetLS licence server technology , part of its iFor/LS suite , in a NetWare Loadable Module optimised for NetWare 3 . |
| 27 | They expect to co-develop a significantly enhanced version of Gradient 's NetLS license server technology , part of its iFor/LS suite , in a NLM optimised for NetWare 3. x and 4. x . |
| 28 | I want to defend a radically different picture , which takes a much broader historical perspective . |
| 29 | Although video recordings may have a strong appeal , in so far as they appear to capture a more complete picture of any speech episode , they have major disadvantages in that they are highly obtrusive , they usually need to be manned and they are relatively cumbersome if the child has to be followed around . |
| 30 | The teachers appear to operate a very rigid model of the dual labour market and seem to make no effort to encourage their girl pupils to struggle against it ; on the contrary , they take positive steps to encourage passivity in the face of obstacles . |