Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 2 | Yet the surviving scores provide little help to a modern impresario trying to figure out whom to hire . |
| 3 | Two entrances , an upper and a lower , descend easily to join under a natural bridge where a passage descends into darkness but becomes choked by boulders . |
| 4 | In the absence of heterogeneous nucleation or granule coalescence , and ensemble of 0.25-µm granules should have a crystallization half-life of more than 1,000 yr at 30 °C , whereas bulk samples of the polymer quenched to 30 °C from the melt typically crystallize within a few minutes . |
| 5 | Curtis was standing beside one of the unmarked Homicide cars parked outside the Eldorado apartment block , absent mindedly toying with a clear plastic production bag . |
| 6 | Support also grew for a new political movement , the environmentalists or Greens . |
| 7 | Imagine yourself drifting on a tranquil lake one warm summer evening while the setting sun bathes an Alpine meadow ; imagine walking leisurely among scented pine woods and looking up wonderously at jagged peaks ; imagine simply strolling through a picturesque medieval town , admiring lovely gardens and sampling a range of regional gastronomic treats . |
| 8 | Put forward plans for a powerful United Nations Environment Programme to lead global efforts to protect the environment , operating within the framework of an ‘ Earth Charter ’ . |
| 9 | Consider Best Bars as a first resort , regard the single cocktail you 'll shell out for as sheer investment , get yourself gift wrapped , send for our jetset silklook shirt , rid yourself of even that inch-of-pinch and the body beautiful will be guaranteed bait for ace race driver or millionaire financier in advanced stages of senility . |
| 10 | Taplow , standing on a high stool , was already tied to the stake , his arms and legs tightly pinioned , head and face partially covered by a white fool 's hood . |
| 11 | Fortunately for us , and unlike Los Angeles , we already have the basis of a high-quality rail system — the huge network of lines laid down by our Victorian forefathers , many of which remain grossly under-utilised in a rapid transit context . |
| 12 | English history has a tendency to assimilate developments into a mythic story , so that events which were a victory for some faction or interest group get retrospectively sanctioned as a sacred progress of democratic tradition . |
| 13 | There were regular travellers whom they came to recognise , people who crossed the forest three or four times a year , foremen in charge of the great waggons of building-stones , or carters with consignments of wheat from the eastern cornlands , or drovers with herds of cattle or flocks of sheep … these last never ventured without a large escort . |
| 14 | Farmhouse English Cheeses p92/ Mainly produced on a small scale , often from the milk of the cheesemaker 's own herd . |
| 15 | The two girls decide instead to opt for a frantic search for their long-lost father . |
| 16 | Make deep slits in a round onion loaf , or round granary cob . |
| 17 | Labour also pointed to a significant north-south divide on new jobs , with the north having lost 330,000 jobs since 1979 , and the south having gained 1.1 million . |
| 18 | Gustave often followed at a discreet distance . |
| 19 | Many volunteers return many times and become strongly attached to a favourite reserve — and make firm friends . |
| 20 | You can perform relaxation exercises lying down but we would prefer if you try initially sitting in a comfortable armchair . |
| 21 | Move right to belay by a shallow corner . |
| 22 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | The answer might seem to be that experience tells us that nation states are a key fact of the current world and that they plainly do often behave in a self-interested way . |
| 24 | The clearest examples of cultural behaviour do indeed come from a social animal , the Japanese macaque , a monkey that inhabits the forests of various islands around Japan . |
| 25 | Even if the majority of exercises employed are basically the same , the results will vary according to whether you work hard for short periods or do easier work for a longer stretch . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've obviously come from a happy , loving family , ’ said Wendy . |
| 27 | Well Sandy , we 've only looked at a few of the things in your shed and a very few of your photographs but it 's been fascinating . |
| 28 | I 've just moved into a new flat , I do n't have a telephone . |
| 29 | If you 've just moved to a new area a good way to break the ice for you and your child is a parent and toddler group . |
| 30 | How d " you always manage to look like you 've just escaped from a hair-pulling battle ? |