Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he is asleep , he sleeps for a very long time — thousands of years in fact . |
| 2 | The DOS version is even cheaper — it goes for a very reasonable £59 . |
| 3 | This effect persists for a relatively long time , and as there is a specific relationship between the stimuli and the responses , it is regarded as a genuine form of associative learning . |
| 4 | Bodser Brown a bully , who develops as a decidedly unsympathetic character eliciting mainly censure from the narrator ( and probably the reader ) is nonetheless introduced positively : |
| 5 | Audrey , a lively girl ( previously the leader of her own gang and described in the book as a ‘ misfit ’ ) , develops as a decidedly sympathetic character and elicits mainly admiration from the reader . |
| 6 | In England this power has for a very long time been delegated , so far as barristers are concerned , to the Inns of Court : and , for a much shorter time , so far as solicitors are concerned , to the Law Society . |
| 7 | He even has a bushy moustache and cares for a very special princess . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it is argued , the needs and wants of a less developed country are so far in advance of that country 's productive capacity that it is useless to waste resources focusing on them . |
| 9 | If one examines the needs and wants of a less developed society and relates this information to the production capacity of that country , ways may be found to develop products that consumers want and which the country is capable of producing . |
| 10 | This looks like a rather odd product — there is already multi-user native Pick for the personal computer , and there is single-user Pick for MD-DOS , so is there a market for a version of Pick that will support multiple users , while a person sits on the server and uses MS-DOS ? |
| 11 | He looks like a rather reliable young man who remembers his aunts ' birthdays , with his thick roll-neck sweaters and his glowing complexion and mild blue eyes . |
| 12 | I think at the moment it , The Correspondent , looks like a rather bad advertisement for monotype typefaces . |
| 13 | It looks like a locally printed or erm product which a lot of local printers could print this there 's |
| 14 | Four large screws make sure the tailpiece is securely located , and it 'll need to be , since all twelve strings anchor in its raised tail , so what looks like a decoratively machined brass rod at the back is in fact a dozen ball-ends grouped together ! |
| 15 | From the point of view of the resources crisis , this looks like a reasonably rational response : because there are so many more ‘ run of the mill ’ than ‘ serious ’ offenders , a bifurcated policy should save many more resources than it costs . |
| 16 | It looks like a slightly small-sized cross between a bee and a wasp , but with a longer drooping tail . |
| 17 | Now , with its white walls and dark blue window frames , it looks like a slightly drab , faded boutique in a quiet English market town . |
| 18 | She looks like a particularly stupid tortoise . |
| 19 | The diagram looks like a closely woven spider 's web . |
| 20 | What looks like a fairly minor scrape would cost me the best part of a planned skiing trip at Christmas to repair if this was n't a company car . |
| 21 | ‘ The blotter , the enamel mug , the tea towel and the diary are all important and there 's what looks like a recently struck match in the grate ; we need that . |
| 22 | On the face of it , it looks like a purely police problem . ’ |
| 23 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 24 | C adds to the 1017 entry that the exiled ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , which could imply that the original was written before this happened ; but it should be noted that the final sentence of the same annal , on Cnut 's marriage to Emma before 1 August , comes after the notice of Eadric of Mercia 's execution , which Florence of Worcester says happened at Christmas ; if so , the sentence on the marriage looks like a relatively late addition . |
| 25 | By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial . |
| 26 | They had opened the concert with Stravinsky 's Wind Symphonies , written in homage to Debussy and sometimes cutting , sometimes introspective , with delicate wistful flute playing for what looks like a very difficult part from Colin Chambers . |
| 27 | The water level drops and then , woosh , up it all comes , first rising like a column — at this stage it looks like a vaguely blue shaggy ink cap toadstool — then blasting itself apart in a flourish of steam . |
| 28 | This collection of science/fantasy short stories unfolds like a finely crafted patchwork whose recurring motif is the woman outsider . |
| 29 | A similar rationale lies behind a somewhat different experimental task — word monitoring — used in the work of Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) . |
| 30 | It looks onto a pretty ordered garden with a small lake , large terrace , and summer pavilion . |