Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading . |
| 2 | Now if you understand that , if you 're actually targeting , you want to get something into a national paper or local paper or something , you need to think at about your particular item you want to get across and think ‘ What sort of angle could actually be useful for that particular outlet ? ’ |
| 3 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 4 | However , as we saw in Chapter 2 , many degree courses seem to have something between a large core ( 66 per cent or more , typically in the natural sciences ) and a small core ( 20–40 per cent , typically in the arts or social sciences ) . |
| 5 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 6 | We train to do something for a particular purpose , to develop the performance of specific tasks or skills . |
| 7 | If you try to whisk something with a hard metal balloon whisk it is hopeless ; you want to use something supple . |
| 8 | This mourning cleanses us of our false expectations and superficialities , where we try to flatten everything into a manageable world in which we are in charge . |
| 9 | He is being wooed by three counter-arguments : first , that when it comes to big , company-wide computer systems , customers still prefer to buy everything from a single , proven supplier ; second , that mainframes will remain at the heart of many of tomorrow 's systems , in which a network of PCs will be served by a central processor ; and third , that IBM is moving away from being hardware-dominated to become , increasingly , a one-stop-shop for computer consultancy and services . |
| 10 | So I have to go something like a five past seven train or something ? |
| 11 | The complicating factor is the reader 's motivation : the effort that children will make if they need to obtain something from a particular book or periodical . |
| 12 | Right , so that 's the digression over and done with it 's pretty fascinating stuff okay , you 'll you 'll need that in the in erm in your Q M project if you have to apply one to a particular problem . |