Example sentences of "a [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most nest on soda lakes on the Tibetan plateau , but a few travel on to remote high lakes in the Pamirs and Tien Shan . |
| 2 | We shall be leaving Peking for Sian at 11.30 this evening , and the comrades have given us a rousing send off with beautiful presents including a big embroidered tablecloth and napkins , and a beautiful framed picture made out of shells , with an inscription written on it specially for & I. They also gave us the enclosed photos , which give you an idea of what life is like here . |
| 3 | Life for me would be empty and not life , a mere dragging on of weary time , perhaps not that . |
| 4 | This challenge to ‘ universalism ’ need not pose in its place a simple relativism or a mere piling up of empirical descriptions . |
| 5 | Next afternoon , then , they set off , a cheerful host , for this was the sort of venture that appealed to most , not any long campaign or set warfare but a raid , a dash into enemy territory , a showing of the flag , a swift paying off of old scores — and with the prospect of booty . |
| 6 | There is more likely to be a gradual wearing down of viral disease , with a wide variety of drugs becoming increasingly effective against specific types of virus . |
| 7 | An alternative reason may be a gradual build up of tap-borne toxins . |
| 8 | A hundred to send out to specific individuals and institutions . |
| 9 | This obviously causes a minor slow down in perceived performance as far as the SX chip is concerned , but the percentage difference is small enough to be negligible in real world applications . |
| 10 | Perhaps , in retrospect , I was over-kind in interpreting the offensive ‘ Bengali In Platforms ’ as a belated working through of petty teenage bigotry . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , early efforts are likely to lead to the model charging backwards towards the pilot followed by a large application of forward stick causing an uncontrollable build up of forward speed . |
| 12 | WELLINGTON ( AFP , AP ) — Three New Zealanders and an American given up for dead were found alive yesterday after drifting for four months on an upturned trimaran in the south Pacific . |