Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [verb] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The market makes it possible for the peasant to grow and sell cash crops , rather than just maintaining a subsistence economy and therefore to produce a surplus . |
| 2 | More than just buying an operating system and securing a future for Novell , Noorda — a man held in high regard by a wide cross section of industry executives — takes on the expectations of all those seeing him as a Moses figure capable of stitching up the highly personalised wounds inflicted during the Unix wars and the aborted peace attempts . |
| 3 | The excellent weather had brought out more sun-seekers and it was harder than before to find a parking space in Nice . |
| 4 | This is true in more ways than simply obtaining an Equity card . |
| 5 | I have rarely if ever met a prison administrator , who does not subscribe to the doctrine that work for prisoners is the best training for life after release , and that it is also the best mechanism for running a humane and tidy prison . |
| 6 | They now rely less on naff novelties and more on structure and nuance , while still retaining an Alec Gilroy-sense of showbiz . |
| 7 | He particularly looks forward to the new community centre being built and , with a personal interest in sport , is keen that while still remaining a play area , the football field is developed and used for more formal games . |
| 8 | Another aspect of the craft to be mastered is the ability to conceal the conflicting demands of being a conciliator bargaining to secure compliance , while ultimately doing a policing job . |
| 9 | DARLINGTON sailor Julie Carroll , 20 , is looking forward to a life on the ocean waves on the type 42 Destroyer HMS Southampton after successfully completing a radar operator course at Portsmouth . |
| 10 | The 24-year-old arrived in Britain yesterday after finally receiving a work permit and is standing by to make his debut in tomorrow 's Anglo-Italian tie against Pisa . |
| 11 | After recently having an exchange engine professionally fitted to my 1980 Range Rover , I decided to completely renew the suspension using heavy duty front and rear springs ‘ G ’ on front ‘ Y ’ on rear and four new shock absorbers . |
| 12 | The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas . |
| 13 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 14 | I do not believe , though many readers are convinced of it , that this is what finally attracts them , otherwise they might just as well do a crossword puzzle . |
| 15 | There were witnesses to that , so he might as well earn a bonus point by mentioning it first . |
| 16 | You might as well buy an Atari ST , with its better built-in disc drive , to start with . |
| 17 | If they are not going to speak out soon they might as well accept a life sentence of watching Esther Rantzen . |