Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot of these economically balanced budgets within species is that arms races between species tend to come to a mutually stable end , with one side ahead . |
| 2 | ‘ Many people with this disease are able to continue to work for a very long time and there is no evidence to suggest that her condition and the error are necessarily linked . ’ |
| 3 | On the other hand , the British National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) has developed as a strongly formed collectivity in a very different way . |
| 4 | The bar here is a major meeting point for 18–30 's and many an early evening drink has developed into a fully blown party night of the spontaneous kind . |
| 5 | Over the last forty years , farming has developed into a highly intensive manufacturing business . |
| 6 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 7 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 8 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 9 | There have , for example , been 29 changes in the method of computing the unemployment figures since the present Government came to power , so that the total number of people out of work has fallen by a far greater amount in appearance than in reality . |
| 10 | If you have an Orchard MSA and want to borrow on a more permanent basis , you can simply use your Orchard Reserve to cover the cost of major purchases such as a car or a holiday . |
| 11 | One of the difficulties , it seems to me , that exists in schools today is that the teacher has to cope with a fairly large class , and one possible advantage of having a fair number of microcomputers |
| 12 | " As the ozone has formed over a largely uninhabited region , it seems there is no immediate danger . |
| 13 | It makes no sense to contemplate a general policy of reducing adverse events in people 's lives , even if it were possible , unless perhaps they were crises which might unavoidably lead to the person becoming trapped into a highly stressful lifestyle . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the low prospective profitability could be due to the enterprise becoming trapped in a clearly sub-optimal line of production , i.e. one in which consumers were simply not willing to pay a price for the commodity sufficient to cover its costs of production ( including the opportunity cost of investment funds expressed in the rate of interest charged by the national investment bank ) . |
| 15 | Rechem has responded with a rather desperate open-door policy aimed at soothing fears , and more recently by issuing about a dozen writs against the fiercest critics . |
| 16 | God , when things like that happen I just feel like shouting I Want To Work in a very loud voice . |
| 17 | As a trial for the Cheltenham Gold Cup , the outcome of the race caused few ripples in the ante-post market , although Chatam has shortened to a best priced 10-1 ( from 16-1 ) with Ladbrokes . |
| 18 | The Beta release of presentations has come with a quite large amount of pre-drawn template material , which will be included with the final release , and which makes actually forming a presentation very simple . |
| 19 | The general opinion seems to be that since the bastard 's decided to stop shooting people , he can remain anonymous , stay at large , enjoy life and freedom , and laugh up his sleeve at an incompetent police force until he decides the time has come for a little more high-velocity fun . ’ |
| 20 | All this has come in a quite unexpected rush . |
| 21 | Lisa had been fully occupied explaining to a rather elderly lady why she could n't pick out the exact blooms that were to be delivered to her daughter-in-law in New Zealand . |
| 22 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've come to listen to a very distinguished visitor , Berel Karlinsky , a famous man we 've all heard of . |
| 24 | Describing it variously as a lark and a spree , The Times was satisfied that although ‘ genteel ruffianism has met with a very decisive rebuff ’ , the Cremorne affair was nothing more than something done ‘ on the impulse of the moment , and out of pure love of mischief ’ . |
| 25 | Think , by way of comparison , of the change that man has wrought in a much shorter time by genetic selection of dogs . |
| 26 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 27 | It therefore has to aim at a carefully judged angle to the apparent direction if it is going to score a hit . |
| 28 | A modern writer , Mensch ( 1980 ) , has argued in a rather different way from Schumpeter that innovations are bunched . |
| 29 | That incident probably made John 's triumph all the sweeter a few months later , when he gleefully described flirting with a particularly desirable man , one of the supposed ringleaders of the earlier occasion . |
| 30 | The canal has moved into a heavily industrial area for the final two locks , Perry Barr 3rd Flight , by the second of which is an old lock cottage covered with roses , defiantly holding on in its surroundings of chimneys , water towers , barbed wire , corrugated iron and half dismantled vehicles . |