Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do , however , have some minor reservations about their approach to individual movements ( the Finale of Op. 51 No. 1 strikes me as a little lacking in urgency , for example ) and the recordings tend to emphasise a rather compressed dynamic range . |
| 2 | Many of them wear slippers around the house , and if they tend to shuffle a little as their joints stiffen , rugs become dangerous obstacles to their safe movement from room to room . |
| 3 | ‘ You really think I want to see a stunningly beautiful woman strung out on drugs ? ’ |
| 4 | If you want to see a very Greek place that is neither the urban mess of contemporary Athens nor the deracinated tourist prettiness of some of the islands , go to Aegina . |
| 5 | Instead they want to see a more gradual approach backed by a cut in interest rates . |
| 6 | ‘ Every client I treat usually loses at least an inch — so it 's ideal if you 're going out for the evening and want to wear a specially tight outfit . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I want to wear a really sexy off-the-shoulder dress with a tight waist , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 8 | It is usually staffed by Macintosh enthusiasts who think that they are onto a good thing and often appear to enjoy a remarkably short life span … |
| 9 | Work schemes of this type are , none the less , especially difficult to fund , and neither the NHS nor social services have regarded them as their responsibility , a situation which must change if we want to provide a more fulfilling life for people with mental disorder . |
| 10 | Rather , they appear to demand a relatively straightforward attempt at a political reading of the situation rather than the citing of some supposed mental or cultural condition . |
| 11 | The four men want to open a much needed bakery in their home town of Marghita in Romania . |
| 12 | These implications are explored in some detail in the next chapter , but in this one I want to elaborate a little on the model itself by considering more closely how it bears upon certain current issues in the pedagogy of language teaching . |
| 13 | The genetic view might at first sight appear to constitute a supremely historical way of thinking about literature , as the literary text was explained in terms of its causes and its origins . |
| 14 | I propose to use a fairly dark hardwood , or even stained oak depending on the cost . |
| 15 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |
| 16 | The fact that some deaf people appear to use a completely different form of coding just as effectively , makes it essential that some re-assessment of the models be made . |
| 17 | One intriguing possibility is that the proteins encoded by MCC and APC interact to form a biologically active complex . |
| 18 | Want to build a more positive outlook . |
| 19 | We want to pursue a more in-house policy with the health authority and create an HIV co-ordinator post and put money aside for domiciliary care ’ . |
| 20 | I 'd better not , though , not if I want to live a little longer . |
| 21 | However , statements from Ministers and interpretations in the press in the months leading up to the publication of Working for patients appear to describe a rather different concept of the ‘ internal market ’ — a patient-led system . |
| 22 | However , statements from Ministers and interpretations in the press in the months leading up to the publication of the White Paper appear to describe a rather different concept of the ‘ Internal Market ’ — a patient-led system . |
| 23 | Halkieriids appear to represent a very early stage of mollusc evolution . |
| 24 | Some foods appear to have a positively energising and restorative influence on the body . |
| 25 | Some animals appear to have a highly developed magnetic sense and use magnetic variations to find their way around . |
| 26 | The lateral arm plates appear to have a more open calcite skeleton giving the plate a spongy appearance . |
| 27 | Macbeth and Lady Macbeth appear to have a very intense relationship |
| 28 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 29 | In addition we clearly want to have a relatively small scale of capital fund available for a wide variety of the needs and I have identified leisure uses , traffic calming , environmental improvements , that 's the ones which I . |
| 30 | ‘ I want to think a little first . |