Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not what you 'd call the retiring type , and I rarely flinch from a fight when I 'm sure of my own righteousness ; but there is one thing I can not cope with , and that is unprovoked aggression . |
| 2 | She gives a brief , cut-off little cry like a chirp as she comes , and sinks her teeth into my shoulder . |
| 3 | It is no surprise they all have bright red noses , for their two great loves are tobacco and whisky ; they rarely appear without a pipe and are known to raid cellars , particularly favouring homemade ale . |
| 4 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 5 | Firstly , and obviously , we only branch on a variable required to be integer-valued . |
| 6 | Inside , a slippery walk soon leads to a stream flowing across the line of approach : this , followed to the left , vanishes under a wall of rock , but a few paces upstream bring as a reward a vision of beauty . |
| 7 | I only change into a fighter in the last ten minutes before I get into the ring . ’ |
| 8 | Where it is suggested to professional advisers , the suggestion will commonly be met with the caution and dubiety they naturally bring to a proposal lying outside their experience or practice . |
| 9 | A region dominated by branch assembly facilities and devoid of senior decision-makers , in contrast , is likely not only suffer from a sense of remoteness from those who control its destiny , but will also tend to lack social diversity and cultural vitality . |
| 10 | Betting tax is charged at 10p in the pound , so tax on a £2 bet will be 20p . |
| 11 | The B film was a Western starring Randolph Scott , and when that was over he would watch Jane Russell again , and somewhere in between he would eat his boiled egg and perhaps sleep for a while . |
| 12 | If we turn first to the best-known Tudor textbook , the so-called ‘ Royal Grammar ’ originally produced by Lily and Colet for St Paul 's School , but becoming virtually ubiquitous after a proclamation by Edward VI in 1548 ordering its use in all grammar schools — it was undoubtedly used by Shakespeare — we find that a pronoun is said to be ‘ a parte of speeche , much lyke to a noune , whyche is used in shewyng or rehersyng ’ . |
| 13 | well there the sort that you only want about a couple at a time at the most |
| 14 | ‘ Things are starting to get much easier for the business person , although there 's still a big difference between setting up in Budapest , or Warsaw , or Prague , compared with somewhere in the country , where you may still have a long wait for a telephone connection . ’ |
| 15 | A long wait for a patient with bladder outflow obstruction for a specialist opinion is both undesirable and unacceptable . |
| 16 | Of course , it can be argued that the theoretical presumption of innocence in the West is frequently negated by the pressure , particularly in the lower courts , to ‘ plea bargain' , that is agree to plead guilty to a relatively minor charge and receive a relatively light sentence , rather than plead not guilty , endure a long wait for a trial ( possibly in custody ) and , if found guilty , receive a heavier sentence , although there always remains the chance of acquittal . |
| 17 | ‘ It has been a long wait in a queue behind many other people with the same idea who wanted new homes in their neighbourhoods , but it has definitely been worth it . |
| 18 | On now to Barry Humphries ' autobiography , More Please ( Penguin ) ; Carol ( second wife of Walter ) Matthau 's memoirs Among the Porcupines ( Orion ) ; Ranulph Fiennes ' search for the city of Ubar ( the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , Atlantis of the Sands ( Penguin ) : A N Wilson 's Jesus ( Flamingo ) , coming at the same time as Barbara Thiering 's Jesus the Man ( Corgi ) , as they also did in hardcover ; and Miranda Seymour 's much-praised life of Ottoline Morrell ( Sceptre ) , £25 in hardcover and so welcome as a £7 or £8 paperback . |
| 19 | It has been proved that even a short stay helps not only the carers , but the patients , who greatly benefit from a change of scenery and the use of the many facilities we have here . ’ |
| 20 | Moreover , the higher taxes that are an inevitable counterpart of more government services not only act as a disincentive to saving and investment , but also " overload " the economy and crowd out opportunities for economic growth at the same time as the opening up of export markets and the defence of the home market is made ever more difficult by the inevitable inflation . |
| 21 | To possess someone in the mind is to be saved from a brutal repudiation in reality , and instead to love the ethereal , which can neither disappoint nor satisfy , but only act as a goad . |
| 22 | A dog — or better still — a gaggle of geese not only act as a deterrent to a prowler , but also provide an excellent ‘ alarm ’ . |
| 23 | If you enviously yearn for a PC sound card but ca n't afford one , Guildsoft 's Icon Hear-It for Windows might be the answer . |
| 24 | ( viii ) Dry the pups with tissues and gently stimulate with a tissue or surgical swab until they are pink and breathing regularly . |
| 25 | Many landlords , usually those who own property as an investment , only let to a company rather than to an individual to avoid the tenant 's security of tenure offered by the Rent Acts . |
| 26 | According to Odent , fathers not only groan with a miscellany of aches and pains before , during and after the birth of a child , but also put on weight beforehand , then top it off with post-natal depression . |
| 27 | African tree hoppers gather in groups at the top of plant stems and together look like a spike of withered flowers . |
| 28 | But , even if the records only stand for a couple of weeks , Kapil wants two Indians on top at the same time . |
| 29 | Remember that when a probate or letters of administration constitute one of the title documents it 's unlikely in any event to be handed over , so look for a covenant for its production and if one is n't abstracted , make a requisition on the point , although you should note covenants for production are not necessary in deeds giving rise to first registration . |
| 30 | So look for a college which is accredited by CIFE or the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education ( BAC ) . |