Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Particularly as normally he 'd rather run that mile than chat up a nurse ! |
| 32 | Not for the horse 's sake alone was it that carters would drive through a roadside pond , or choose to ford a stream rather than go over a bridge beside the ford . |
| 33 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 34 | Sticking your willy up strange holes had to be riskier than standing over a lavatory basin . |
| 35 | Falling off a tall building is , after all , much more dangerous than falling off a low wall . |
| 36 | It 's easier than falling off a log . |
| 37 | Knill said that he was satisfied with NERC 's allocation from the Science Vote for 1992–3 ( see above ) , which although showing only a small percentage rise will allow the council to set up two new community projects : LOIS ( the Land-Ocean Interaction Study ) and Bridge ( the HEI-led British Mid-Atlantic Ridge project ) . |
| 38 | It 's much more fun to go into battle with someone who 's fighting fit than to beat up a victim who 's languishing after a bout of disastrous presentation . |
| 39 | It was obvious now to the World that America 's involvement had driven Kennedy into supporting a corrupt , totalitarian government because the US felt that stopping Communism was more important than setting up a democratic government in South Vietnam . |
| 40 | We need members need to get a grip on what is happening and my wife suggests this , that the panel erm rather than setting up a new panel , look at the whole issue of school meals , this and other issues . |
| 41 | True , in the judgment itself it might appear that the court was making a pontifical statement of existing principle rather than laying down a new rule , for they regarded their own proposition as having been anticipated by Holt . |
| 42 | Whether this moderate tower in St Enoch 's Square will do more than brighten up a few central shopping streets remains to be seen . |
| 43 | From the off he had me convinced that by helping him I was doing no more than carving out a new life for myself as a better citizen , a better human being . |
| 44 | The extra work is needed to cope with demand for its new Rover 800 saloon , which although launched just a year ago is hammering opposition in the executive market . |
| 45 | In its varied type-faces , its symbols of mourning — lilies , the reaping sickle , the portrait photograph framed in lines as if hanging on a wall — and its verses from Longfellow , this seemed an almost Victorian celebration of death . |
| 46 | If thought right a proposal must go to Divisions and be put at the Annual General Meeting . |
| 47 | A policeman held out his arms as if heading off a loose horse . |
| 48 | Candy held up her hands as if warding off a blow . |
| 49 | As they hopped out of Armstrong , Fenella leaned in through the meter window as if paying off a real cab . |
| 50 | ( If taking on a picnic , dress the salad just before serving . ) |
| 51 | Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs . |
| 52 | Apis mellifera , if put on a horizontal honeycomb , dances just like Apis florica . |
| 53 | Aunt Louise 's eyes were over-bright and she tried to pass her hand across them as if to brush away a cobweb . |
| 54 | His eyes sought Dora as if throwing down a challenge and Melissa saw her draw herself upright , her nostrils flaring . |
| 55 | as if following up a train of thought , he looked across at Joe , saying , ‘ I wonder if those thieving scoundrels will be on the prowl again tonight ? ’ and Joe answered , ‘ I should n't think they 'd have the nerve to make a third trip , not in the same week , anyway . ’ |
| 56 | It is a commonplace observation that if we lose a night 's sleep we tend to sleep a bit longer on subsequent nights , as if to make up a " sleep debt " . |
| 57 | And in this case it is particularly acute because to set up a typology in which science correlates with religious moderation risks the objection that what one means by moderation is going to change according to political circumstances . |
| 58 | In 1983 the Soviet media cited a New York Times report that in the absence of an agreement with the United States on the bases Greek officials were prepared simply to liquidate them and were ‘ seriously considering taking up a position of neutrality similar , for example , to that adhered to by Sweden ’ . |
| 59 | Now this particular size , because do quite a lot of sizes as well , er , we do five different diary formats . |
| 60 | ‘ It 's redlining it at 6,000 , ’ he said , referring to the straining Tachometer , while firing down a bus lane in first gear at about forty . |