Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technical developments made possible both a greater variety and quality of signals and also more convenient ways of listening . |
| 2 | ‘ Yow can throw that down the sink ! |
| 3 | People like Calum Colvin have shaken that up a little , but even he ends up with a picture which he puts a frame around . |
| 4 | Except the filth ‘ ve got that now an ’ all . ’ |
| 5 | That 's no trivial task given that even the latest , X-Windows X11R5-based release of Motif , 1.2 , comes with nine patch releases ( as of June ) . |
| 6 | Against the evidence of the German authorities and the German police , and given that even the Israeli secret service thinks that others may have been involved , would it not at least be a sensible plan to talk to the Arab League about the very serious problem of Lockerbie and at least consider accepting the request to send British and American judges in the first instance to a trial under Libyan law ? |
| 7 | Given that neither The Blue Aeroplanes nor Levitation have exactly torched the charts with tunes of fire , the chances of a group formed by ex-pats from both of said bands formulating an instant pop nirvana appears about as likely as Spurs winning the Premier League . |
| 8 | Mind you , there wo n't be too much muttering about top-roping from other Scottish climbers given that almost every ascent of Fated Path ( on the same crag ) has been top-roped prior to leading , despite that route having fixed protection all the way up ! |
| 9 | It well it does tapes yeah but it 's like the bass keeps on going down then it goes high then the main bit 's like You know what I mean it all gets crapped up so i 'll tape it again . |
| 10 | Clarify a definite beginning and end for the task , and make clear how the effectiveness of the decision will be assessed . |
| 11 | If only they could make this even a little communicative of what 's careering about in their heads , maybe there would be less physical damage done . |
| 12 | I 'm not sure that Joyce thinks this altogether a good thing . |
| 13 | Erm as the scale of the problem became clear however the Party was forced to react and in a series of directives between February and May nineteen forty eight the leadership established more moderate ground rules for land reform . |
| 14 | As it stands , this organisation does not make clear how the parts relate to each other , what the development is , or even what the point is of some of the parts ( why should there be a special section devoted to her final novel but not the others , for example ? ) . |
| 15 | What made this all the more piquant was that so far from being free , the holiday was in fact bankrupting me . |
| 16 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 17 | I 've heard this quite a lot , it 's a , it 's a common |
| 18 | And Neighbourhood Watch is really to try that down a little bit . |
| 19 | That 's what it 's all about , I 'd like perhaps to see whether we can tie that up a bit . |
| 20 | World War I , therefore , came as a terrible blow , but she persevered in keeping alive both the British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation and the World 's Labour Laws — to such effect that in February 1919 it was she who wrote the draft to the Paris commission on the basis of the International Labour Office to be established by the Versailles treaty . |
| 21 | It always pays to stick as closely to the truth as possible , I found that out a long time ago . |
| 22 | We only found that out the other day ! |
| 23 | nervous now , you 're gon na be checking that quite a bit . |
| 24 | So they say , oh okay we 've sorted this out a bit now each group just has five pound to share out between fifteen of them . |
| 25 | Er a and he jazzed this up a little bit , and perhaps I think he 's gone a bit over the top on it . |
| 26 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 27 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 28 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 29 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 30 | But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations . |