Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows how to make people laugh , without whipping them into such a state of excitement that they feel a keen sense of anti-climax when the host of the show comes on . |
| 2 | DIGI DUB serve up a welcome listen of techno ragga , electro and dub , blending them to such a degree that they still remain hard to categorise , dealing in each style with equal authority and adeptness throughout and as inventive as anything you 'll find plagiarising these genres . |
| 3 | She shuddered , half laughing , the joy reaching her heart and enveloping her in such a wave of pleasure that she felt weak-kneed . |
| 4 | Centuries ago they created torsion powered and counter-weighted devices which are their equivalent of cannons , perfecting them to such a degree that they are in many ways superior to crude gunpowder weapons . |
| 5 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 6 | The information comes from selecting data and presenting it in such a way that it is meaningful and useful to the user . |
| 7 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 8 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 9 | Just to highli I 'd just like to highlight a few of the principles before I comment on this dishonesty of this Government in , on the one hand enacting a major piece of legislation and on the other hand doing it in such a way that Councils 'll settle for failure because resources have not been allocated . |
| 10 | She put an arm across her eyes and opened them beneath it , seeing him in such a way that he could never be certain whether she had looked or not , naked and hairy and black as she might have imagined , thick-set and arrogant and very ready — that much at least was certain — to take her without any further preamble . |
| 11 | The story was that Puig-Aubert would often snatch a smoke when play was downfield , and we lived in hope of catching him in such an act of Gallic braggadocio . |
| 12 | Luther Reynolds ridiculed David in front of her , belittling him in such a way as to destroy any respect she might have had for her husband ; although she could not help but like him a little . |
| 13 | His exclamation endorsed her suspicion , but why should he be regarding her with such a look of furious triumph on his face ? |
| 14 | But we 'll be building it in such a way as lets us add without making a pig 's breakfast of it . |
| 15 | This project will also attempt to establish just how information from the two modalities converge by systematically manipulating them in such a way as to disrupt the normal manner of combining them . |
| 16 | No doubt he was getting a great deal of macho satisfaction at finding her at such a disadvantage . |
| 17 | Shelley stayed in her villa , regretting the incident , yet blaming her chief for not preparing her for such a patient . |
| 18 | In this poem Coleridge is clearly better able to understand his own mind by putting it in such a context , and , as in ‘ This lime tree Bower my Prison ’ such intimate understanding of his surroundings enables him to produce incredibly vivid Wordsworthian description of scene . |
| 19 | Although no specific timescale was announced for the duration of the suspension of co-operation , the Mexican government suggested that it would begin an immediate review of the 1978 extradition treaty with a view to modifying it in such a way as to prohibit further abductions . |
| 20 | I saw a woman preparing it with such a stick as is used for chocolate , and in the same manner . ’ |
| 21 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 22 | There 's no point leaving him with half a harem , and there 's no way of telling who 's important and who 's not . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Three lords — two of them our most able captains — leaving us on such a quest . ’ |
| 24 | She had been determined not to give anything of herself away to him , but he had succeeded in antagonising her to such a pitch that she almost could n't help herself . |
| 25 | The next key question is whether such a strategic pricing policy will deter the rival from entering the market by offering it at most a zero NPV . |