Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather , the rest of today 's likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time . |
| 2 | The weather , the rest of today is likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time . |
| 3 | The weather , the rest of today is likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time . |
| 4 | The weather , the rest of today is likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time . |
| 5 | SIR — A 43-year-old healthy Finnish man visited St Petersburg in Russia for 3 days during Easter , 1993. 12 h after he returned he became acutely ill with a sore throat . |
| 6 | But in the second half of the eleventh century and in the early twelfth , liege homage was still a new and growing force in France and England : an experiment which was proving widely acceptable as a solution to the intolerable problem of divided loyalties . |
| 7 | It is not said , however , that at around the same time in Georgian England a woman , Angelica Kauffman , had arrived on the London art scene and was proving remarkably successful as a portrait painter . |
| 8 | In 1766 she arrived in London to become one of the leading figures in the art world of London , not only proving remarkably successful as a portrait painter , but winning high esteem in the most prestigious form of painting — history painting , namely large-scale compositions based on historical and mythological subjects which provided a lesson in heroism , tragedy or morality . |
| 9 | On most gliders that will mean less than 50 knots , which you may think rather slow for a steep turn . |
| 10 | He became suddenly aware of a strange , unpleasant smell . |
| 11 | His simpler ‘ Dolby B ’ system was adopted for tape cassettes in 1971 , and was the main reason why this format became so popular as a means of disseminating commercially prerecorded material . |
| 12 | It was because of this that it became so important for a buyer to establish that the seller 's representation amounted to a contractual term so that full damages would then be available . |
| 13 | He became especially good as a one-day containing bowler , playing a big part in his county 's successes , and contributing many useful , if very idiosyncratic , lower middle order runs ; while his Test bowling average was declining , his batting figure was improving all the time , and reached a handy 21 . |
| 14 | They stopped at Antwerp where one evening they got so drunk in a bar that when Minton decided to return to the hotel , Norman followed him as he doubted whether he would find his way . |
| 15 | ‘ Last Tuesday in Cambridge High Street a man got so angry with a dog he bit it . ’ |
| 16 | However , M. Frontenac was entitled to the final say and he had rejected a veritable Gotha of applicants before music in France became somewhat un-sympathetic to a romantic text . |
| 17 | That the propriety of expenditure is premised on the possibility of an eventual return to the shareholders is , however , made starkly apparent in a number of cases concerning companies that are ceasing to trade . |
| 18 | Just as Goscelin 's statement that Cnut was devoted to St Edith sits somewhat ill with a remarkable tale reported by William of Malmesbury , and may simply reflect what the Wilton nuns wanted people to believe , churchmen writing the histories of their own foundations tended to be prejudiced . |
| 19 | THE people at the Museum of the Moving Image are becoming rather excited about a new exhibit being installed on Monday Dec 11 : a full organza dress , lined with peach silk crepe de chine , and decorated with ivory re-embroidered lace , crystal beading , peach silk chiffon and some hand-dyed rosettes . |
| 20 | Or he could sell most of his land to Mr Big and his house and a few acres could fall into the hands of a merchant banker who wants somewhere quiet with a paddock for the daughter 's ponies . |
| 21 | Often looks rather besotted with a congested mottled and purple face ; a bloated face but not oedema . |
| 22 | I found myself constantly making a connection between what new families were saying to me about what they found most helpful from a social worker and what I as a social worker find most helpful from a team leader . |
| 23 | It looks just right for a helicopter man . |
| 24 | For what this might involve , the historian must rely on literary material , and Langland 's dialogue , between Piers and Hunger in the B text of Piers Plowman rings painfully true as a description of peasant hardship in the pre-potato age . |
| 25 | They decided to don boxing gloves and fight in a square ring , like professional boxers , so that they could employ full-power kicks and punches against one another , instead of having to let their attacks fall just short of a designated target area . |
| 26 | It had looked more suitable for a West End hairdressing salon . |
| 27 | The rugged , weatherbeaten face , with its look of dependable fortitude , would have looked more appropriate above a seaman 's guernsey , preferably with RNLI woven across the chest . |
| 28 | Studies of rhetoric are now becoming more frequent in a variety of fields , but perhaps most often in studies of science . |
| 29 | But as the 1980s progressed , the Brick Lane site was becoming more valuable as a potential development area than as a brewery . |
| 30 | Even Thomas Hearne , a Nonjuring Jacobite who himself was convinced that James III was the legitimate King , nevertheless thought that the reason why people were becoming more sympathetic to a Stuart restoration was a result of the favour George I had shown to the Whigs : He hath turned the Tories out , and filled all places with those of the Whiggish party . |