Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a feeling of belonging and caring ; the demonstrators seem bonded together by a common link . |
| 2 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 3 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 4 | Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro . |
| 5 | If that is all you 've got even with a double lock , locking action it is very easy to open up . |
| 6 | Obviously there are other aspects of intelligent behaviour , some of which Bali may discourage ; perhaps a time will come when he tells himself ‘ I 've run away from a big world to a little one , I was wrong ’ . |
| 7 | Across ashen , unredeemable scenes , Shakespeare 's words resound with redoubled force and humanity ; they sound almost ironic , in their fruitless reaching towards the images and emotions which have drained away from a soulless , monochrome universe . |
| 8 | And at the moment , all five of them have joined together on a single campaign , which is about trade . |
| 9 | College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly for a one-day strike and a total ban on flexible working over pay , the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education announced yesterday . |
| 10 | However , they have come home to a safe place where they know they are loved and that it is safe to have their tantrums . |
| 11 | For the first time staff concerned with mapping and interpreting crustal structure in the third dimension have come together in a single division , Thematic Maps and Onshore Surveys ( TMOS ) . |
| 12 | That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while . |
| 13 | On a hundred occasions I have idled similarly in a deserted croft in the Highlands of Scotland and wondered about the lives that had been lived in it . |
| 14 | Accordingly , where humanities scholars have engaged the computer in text creation and analysis , they have done so in a sophisticated way . |
| 15 | Marketers in the Anglo-Saxon cultures have moved closer to a pan-European approach than their Latin counterparts , the survey adds . |
| 16 | The use of ‘ strong ’ is significant because we have moved now from a weak , lifeless stance to a healthier , more robust one . |
| 17 | Partnerships in the UK are a contemporary feature ; in their present incarnation they date from the mid 1980s and since then have grown remarkably into a national phenomenon . |
| 18 | It is also how one must determine whether others have acted well or not , so far as externals go , though how far they have acted well in a proper inward sense , that is , how far they have been truly guided by the categorical imperative , rather than by the calculations of self interest , is hidden away in the depths of their being , hidden perhaps even from themselves . |
| 19 | It is with considerable regret that I now have to tell the general assembly that although other parts of the Board 's work , and the Board 's investicl invested capital have performed well from a financial point of view , the anticipated deficit on thirty eight eventide homes has been sustained . |
| 20 | THIEVES have got away with a substantial amount of cash from the main branch of Lloyds Bank in Darlington . |
| 21 | Second , the ASB believes that analysts have concentrated unduly on a single figure in the accounts , earnings per share . |
| 22 | Plans have gone ahead for a regulatory body for the direct sales channel . |
| 23 | For the sexually jealous male , the separate/d objects of identification and desire — the rival man and the faithless woman — have united actually as a distorted counterpart of the forbidden conjunction in the jealous subject between identification and desire . |
| 24 | Last year the town missed out , but the borough council , residents and business people have worked together on a new ten-point plan which includes regenerating the town centre by making it fully pedestrianised , building a new shopping development and improving access for disabled people . |
| 25 | that the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition , and the respondent consents to a decree being granted ; or |
| 26 | that the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition . |
| 27 | That the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition and that the respondent agrees to a decree being granted . |
| 28 | I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born . |
| 29 | The ambassador reported that " The Emperor is monitoring the serious political illness which has gripped all countries , and believes his empire very far from being immune from infection " ; Nicholas was now of the opinion that " Highly reprehensible principles have been disseminated among young people who completed their university courses around three years ago , among people who have lived abroad for a long time , and also among teachers , professors , writers and journalists . |
| 30 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |