Example sentences of "[verb] figure " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he turned , and with a little gesture of farewell crossed the highway and headed back towards Lima , a small , shambling figure glancing back every now and then in search of a truck that would give him a lift . |
| 2 | Erm moving on a bit now , er er I mean , which crimes do you figure do you think figure most prominently around the fl in and around the flats ? |
| 3 | From out the dark , a blue clad figure appeared , |
| 4 | Part way down the corridor , one grey clad figure was sprawled motionless on the floor , while a second was painfully belly-crawling back towards the far end . |
| 5 | Their heads lowered to avoid the outstretched hand and pale features of a thin leather clad figure hunched over in a shop doorway . |
| 6 | ‘ But what have I become ? ’ he cried out , suddenly aware of the ridiculous , ineffective , by-passed figure he was , trailing aimlessly into woods whose trees he could neither distinguish nor enjoy . |
| 7 | The resolution of this problem can be demonstrated using Figure 8.3 . |
| 8 | Using figure 5.1 again we might imagine that firms , at the end of period 0 , expect that the position of the aggregate demand curve will be AD in period 1 . |
| 9 | The reason for this may be understood using Figure 17–2 . |
| 10 | The use of the structure may now be illustrated using Figure 11.2 as the design to be transmitted . |
| 11 | Copies of Figure 11.3 are given to the sender and receivers and they are asked to repeat the first exercise using Figure 11.4 as the data to be transmitted . |
| 12 | It was Major 's idea that Foreign Office minister Tristan Garel-Jones , a passionate pro-European and hate figure for the right , should make a high profile defence of the Treaty . |
| 13 | I regret that the seasonally adjusted figure went up by 700 to 121,600 last month , but I remind the hon. Gentleman that in January 1986 , the figure was over 170,000 . |
| 14 | compared with the Minister 's adjusted figure , and that even the Association of Yorkshire and Humberside Chambers of Commerce is now calling on the Government to do something about a sinking economy ? |
| 15 | On May 16 the figure for April was announced , showing a further increase to a seasonally adjusted figure of 2,175,100 ( 7.6 per cent ) . |
| 16 | In the North the seasonally adjusted figure fell by more than 3,000 as the region started to gear up for the tourist season . |
| 17 | Across the North-East as a whole the seasonally adjusted figure rose by 1,500 on last month . |
| 18 | The seasonally adjusted figure , regarded as the best long-term guide , rose by a lower-than-expected 22,100 in January to 2,995,100 . |
| 19 | The Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , said that the rise in the seasonally adjusted figure was the lowest since last March and Scotland had the third lowest unemployment rate of all UK regions . |
| 20 | But Korea 's price index is a notoriously manipulated figure , and the educated guess in Seoul is that inflation is now in the mid-teens . |
| 21 | You can regard Figure 2 , therefore , as a picture of seven related organisms , identical to each other except with respect to Gene 9 . |
| 22 | We 'll have to try figure out a time when you 're all available . |
| 23 | The front door of the cottage opened , and the tall , bent figure of the witch , leaning on a stick , came out . |
| 24 | The form of the diagram amplifies Figure 1.1 . |
| 25 | The form of the diagram amplifies Figure 1.1 . |
| 26 | It is a seriously distorting figure . |
| 27 | If you are only interested in autorotation as a means of saving the model in the event of an engine failure , the pitch can simply be set to the manufacturer 's recommended figure ( or , if in doubt , -2½° ) . |
| 28 | Whenever she looked round the tall , robed figure was getting closer . |
| 29 | Since many of my paintings feature horses these days , I feel I really need this knowledge in just the same way that being familiar with human anatomy is essential to really understanding figure drawing . |
| 30 | Since many of my paintings feature horses these days , I feel I really need this knowledge in just the same way that being familiar with human anatomy is essential to really understanding figure drawing . |