Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , tenure in top positions is normally limited through a more explicit contractual term of office than is employed in the private sector , and self-perpetuating oligarchies can not form . |
| 2 | I 've just heard about a very good antique shop opening over at Warmly . |
| 3 | It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver . |
| 4 | She went out , leaving Peter Suvarov to wait for a more rational assessment of Julia 's state from Annunziata . |
| 5 | The information is used to affirm a unique individual profile , from which an individualised plan for the person is developed through a more equal relationship with the elder being assessed . |
| 6 | a unique individual profile , from which an individualised plan for the person is developed through a more equal relationship with the elder being assessed ( Key , 1989 , p. 69 ) . |
| 7 | And then of course , this was all blown when th the raids stopped for a quite a long time , all these bloody kids came back ! |
| 8 | It was an easy way out , but one which could make for a far more enjoyable session . |
| 9 | References may not be recommended where they could be appropriate or useful ; in other places , too many references can make for a very tedious search . |
| 10 | In a typical institutional kitchen the combination of floor tile , water , grease , food spills and so on can make for a very dangerous environment . |
| 11 | If workers are given jobs for life or if their wages are linked to age and seniority does this not make for a much less flexible labour market ? |
| 12 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 13 | I promise it will make for a more positive atmosphere around you . |
| 14 | Some of the procedures of discourse analysis will make for a more profound examination of this process . |
| 15 | The enormous contribution made throughout history — particularly in the arts — to society by homosexuals should surely make for a more tolerant and sympathetic understanding than to refer with such scorn to Wilde 's ‘ abnormal and filthy practises ’ . |
| 16 | If the English paintings in the National Gallery could be included ( and I imagine that is not possible ) , it would make for a truly remarkable museum a real tribute to the ‘ Englishness of English art ’ . |
| 17 | But the approach eschews vague yet important notions of fairness and integrity , and makes them subservient to what can be criticized as a very narrow view of cost . |
| 18 | Twice a week , having given their word of honour that they would not attempt to escape , those prisoners who wished to go for a heavily guarded march through the surrounding countryside , along lanes chosen for their loneliness , were allowed to do so . |
| 19 | I think it would be better , in my own experience , move over to that er the left a little bit just to go for a slightly more interesting composition . |
| 20 | Now we need to go for a more direct experience , feed in the kind of energy you get at raves , for example . |
| 21 | And indeed , to go for a more precise figure would suggest that I was making a particular point . |
| 22 | For to remain as a directly managed unit would place a question mark on it 's future . |
| 23 | Even allowing for a more diverse class-composition , this village inhabits another world from that other . |
| 24 | Conversely , Henry VII 's shell is more tubular , probably allowing for a more natural appearance of majesty when positioning the funerary sceptres in the hands . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the British National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) has developed as a strongly formed collectivity in a very different way . |
| 26 | By contrast , the social survey was developed as a more generic method . |
| 27 | The equations were originally developed as a highly simplified model ( mathematically a very severe truncation ) of the equations of Bénard convection ( Chapter 22 ) . |
| 28 | The trustee company will also be paid an annual fee , normally calculated as a very small percentage on the net asset value of the trust . |
| 29 | As Neil MacCormick has observed : ‘ It remains a contested issue whether an aspiration to justice is to be treated as essential to or definitive of the legal enterprise in all its manifestations , or is to be distinguished as a specially urgent demand issued in the name of critical morality . ’ |
| 30 | Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed . |