Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] an [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His entrance stirred up an even larger excitement , and the crowd surged forward — Mala among them — for a closer look . |
| 2 | Of a sudden Hector set up an extraordinarily excited yapping . |
| 3 | The Ardeer site in Scotland managed to cut £6,000 from its annual water bill when an employee pointed out an unnecessarily wasteful use of water . |
| 4 | When the pair of huge horses made their way past the front of the Manor , where the family stood on the steps to watch , the glow of the setting sun was almost gone and in the eerie after-glow the scene took on an almost pagan air . |
| 5 | In March or April the flocks take on an even whiter appearance as the males moult into ‘ whiter than white ’ plumage with only a black mantle . |
| 6 | Her imagination conjured up an erotically vivid picture and she knew a hectic flush had risen to her cheeks . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the kitchen was being gutted and an architect friend drew up an entirely new conception for the space , involving limed Spanish oak , wrought-iron brackets ( many bought at David de Spenceley 's antiques salvage warehouse in Fulham ) and 300-watt pinpoints of light hidden in the ceiling . |
| 8 | Adults often doodle in order to help themselves concentrate , and as the pencil strays around an apparently irrelevant line , in an apparently different activity — much like this paragraph , come to think of it — we might ask what the mind is doing . |
| 9 | Pareto calls up an inevitably partial selection of historical evidence to support the view that elites are always present in any social system . |
| 10 | The amp head pushes out an extremely loud 100 watts , and you can complete your stack by adding a separate valve-driven spring reverb unit and two cabinets — one 2x12″ , one 4x12″ — both loaded with Celestion G12 speakers . |
| 11 | However , it is always open to the court to strike out an unusually high rate of interest if it considers it to be unfair . |
| 12 | Through their writings , I went in my imagination on trips to unknown parts — coral islands , hunting for treasure , discovering oil — joining the Library opened up an entirely new world for me . |
| 13 | Don-E 's Island release ‘ Peace In The World ’ was disqualified from the charts after the hi-tech security system used by chart compilers Gallup picked up an unusually high concentration of sales in the south London area . |
| 14 | Zantac makes up an ominously high 50% of the company 's revenues . |
| 15 | Females make up an even smaller proportion of the prison population in this country , between 3 and 4 per cent at any one time . |
| 16 | Nicolo 's voice took on an almost perfect New York accent . |
| 17 | The debates take on an almost sacramental nature as speakers resort to the most basic metaphors of reproduction and renewal in a search for the rites of an inner city spring ( Goldberg , 1990 ) . |
| 18 | The result looked like an insidious , grey-green growth lopped off an otherwise healthy young tree to protect its trunk . |
| 19 | Teachers ' salaries make up an increasingly large proportion of recurrent budgets , especially at primary level , with other expenditures pared down to almost nothing . |
| 20 | Oh yes , because er we had a lot of letter going back an forth to architects or to other slate merchants or to quarry owners . |
| 21 | For one critic , the finale of Scriabin 's Fourth Sonata becomes in Gavrilov 's hands ‘ like foaming sunlight ’ and Ravel 's Gaspard takes on an altogether new drama and menace : ‘ suddenly ‘ Ondine ’ has claws , and in ‘ Scarbo ’ the knives were out ’ . |
| 22 | AFTER narrowly failing to win the European Cup Winners ' Cup last season , Havant take on an even harder task when they compete in the European Cup in Amsterdam this weekend . |
| 23 | Members of the Association recognized , for example , potential dangers arising from the loss of aristocratic leadership , and the rise of a cultural market.place which urgently necessitated the use of literary culture to bring about an apparently spontaneous consent to a regenerated leadership . |
| 24 | Electrons you could see as tiny planets orbiting round an even tinier sun . |
| 25 | Compositional autonomy is closed off in the sphere of avant-garde negation , while commodity musical production takes on an increasingly standardized character , coupling formula and fetishized effect in both ‘ serious ’ and ‘ popular ’ markets . |