Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may think that sounds a bit odd — but without customers there would be no retail business at all ! |
| 2 | Life 's chocolate flavoured , say women who eat 70 bars a week |
| 3 | It is not always the child who has been building that does the packing away . |
| 4 | On the assumption that neither Hezarfen on the one hand nor Ali and Kocu Bey on the other is simply in error , one can perhaps reconcile these two apparently contradictory statements on the grounds either that it was only in the technical matter of the that Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to be regarded as 300-akce kadiliks , their holders actually being given 500 akce a day ; or that , while still being paid only 300 akce a day , they had come to be regarded as 500-akce mevleviyets from the hierarchical point of view , for the obvious reason that they were in fact higher in rank than any of the other kadiliks . |
| 5 | This head felt that the re-expression and development of ideas which IT made possible allowed every pupil the chance to have second thoughts . |
| 6 | The point of these examples is that using Creole to refuse a request is a way of building a particular meaning into the refusal . |
| 7 | In the context of Conversation E , then , using Creole to express a refusal marks it as " jocular " and non-threatening , just as laughter , delay and offering an excuse ( or " alternative " ) were used earlier to mark another refusal as non-threatening . |
| 8 | And er we the tea the class All the boys It were all boys er we we had to carry Each carry a chair up to the new school . |
| 9 | And he 's , he 's using that to make the frame and then the doors for our old wardrobes he 'll use for the front of it , you know . |
| 10 | It became possible to standardize the matériel and develop strategy in a way that had been beyond Muscovy 's capabilities . |
| 11 | It was not until 1836 that it became possible to measure the amount of sugar left in a wine after the first fermentation , when Professor Francois of Châlons-sur-Marne published his Nouvelles observations sur la fermentation de vin en bouteilles , suivies d'un procédé pour reconnaître la quantité de sucre contenu dans le vin immédiatement avant tirage . |
| 12 | Once it became possible to lower a patient 's blood pressure substantially , it was not merely of academic interest to know whether the raised blood pressure was really ‘ essential ’ , that is necessary to maintain a sufficient flow of blood through narrowed arteries to vital organs , and , if it was , whether modest treatment ( to ward off the obvious hazards of strokes or heart failure ) could be tolerated . |
| 13 | ( By 1983 , fashion had become so disjointed anyway — it became possible to achieve the look and sound of any youth cult movement since the forties and still remain firmly in vogue ) . |
| 14 | With the implementation of the present Call-slip analysis exercise it became possible to review the situation after an interval of almost ten years , and in the tables which follow , those findings of the present Survey which relate to foreign-language material are set alongside the broadly comparable findings of the earlier periods . |
| 15 | It became possible to instil the drill , discipline , and skills required to make the army an effective fighting force . |
| 16 | But having made the distinction clear between the two modes it is necessary now to acknowledge that to see the relationship always in terms of contrary orientations may be an oversimplification . |
| 17 | AS the biggest Whitehall shake-up in two decades gets under way , there is firm evidence that the civil service expected Labour to win the election . |
| 18 | I think Mao was quite keyed up on the whole situation , I think he realized that to win the war they had to erm adjust the mass support very carefully , and I think that 's basically what this I think that 's why two months later they er they er gave up this document cos he was worried then they 'd lose the middle peasants ' support . |
| 19 | Given that buying a home is the largest financial commitment most people will ever make , the freedom now available to tailor mortgages to individual requirements should be exploited to the full by borrowers and advisers alike . |
| 20 | Yeah , I 've heard that making a console . |
| 21 | Pale shades reflect light , opening out small areas , while on the other hand , dark , rich tones will absorb light to make a room look smaller . |
| 22 | In Setting up a closed.loop Stepping motor control the choice of appropriate points for deceleration initiation can be very difficult , because the load torque characteristics , which are usually a function of speed , may be ill-defined or may be expected to vary over the life expectancy of the system . |
| 23 | But Microsoft insists that list prices will remain high to emphasize the value of their products . |
| 24 | In the distance I used Quink ink with its more blue tinge and in parts diluted this to maintain a lightness of touch . |
| 25 | Some of them some of them give a lot of details , I mean this gives a lot of detail there . |
| 26 | Being clear about the social purpose of the organisation ( in management jargon , its mission and core values ) , and using this to clarify the nature of its relationships with users and provide an ethical system of values to guide behaviour , is a key task for managers and politicians jointly . |
| 27 | An Iranian-brokered ceasefire , due to start on Feb. 27 to enable Vellayati to visit the enclave , failed to hold , however , and on Feb. 28 he flew direct to Yerevan , the Armenian capital . |
| 28 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 29 | The French influence here was even greater than in Spain and in the eleventh century the northern region had broken free to become a satellite of Burgundy , though later it became independent . |
| 30 | He imposed this religion on them which they did n't want and Freud thinks this explains a lot of things like the story of the golden carving , how Moses comes down |