Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brigadier Smithson , who was apparently due to go on leave the next day , rang Southern Command and managed to arrange that he should go straight to London by train after the conference . |
| 2 | We 're not going to make anything right this minute , cos first of all we 're going to sit down have a nice cup of tea and Christopher 's going to read to me , so we 're going to get that out of the way before the excitement thing happens |
| 3 | Oil producing seeds pressed together produce a solid cake that animals — particularly cattle — can eat . |
| 4 | ALTHOUGH it was described in the 19th century as ‘ a land without music ’ , Britain has latterly become a musical powerhouse , particularly rich in its orchestras . |
| 5 | ‘ He behaved very much like the character he was playing , and everybody treated him like the character , the young kid , ’ recalled Chuck Julian , an actor in the film who has since become a theatrical agent . |
| 6 | Ken McReddie , an actor and assistant stage manager at the Playhouse , who has since become a theatrical agent , remembered Crawford being ‘ very energetic and noticeably good ’ , but there were other memories , too . |
| 7 | THE OFFICIAL , artist-approved re-release of a private pressing from ‘ 74 that has since become a sought-after collector 's item . |
| 8 | What does seem likely , at least in part , is that a practice which began in the Sixties — distinguishing themselves from their left-leaning peers through a pose of premature reactionism — has since become an indistinguishable part of their character . |
| 9 | Abbey National wrote its first major piece of leasing business in December 1990 and has since become the fastest-growing company in the field . |
| 10 | It has since become the dreaded archetype of business bureaucracy : the £10 letter . |
| 11 | The British Standard for Quality management has effectively become the international standard . |
| 12 | Now as Garry has already shown , the client server software market is now seen as a backward growing sector of the software industry because client server has effectively become the standard way of architecting new systems . |
| 13 | Eraut ( 1977 ) avoids specifying the content or outcomes of teacher development , having rejected the assumption that a teacher who has developed has necessarily become a better teacher . |
| 14 | While the hazards of the algae have been documented since the beginning of the century in places such as Australia and the United States , it has only become a serious problem in Europe recently . |
| 15 | Nigeria 's soil erosion problem has been recognised as extremely serious but conservation has only become a national concern during the Third National Plan ( 1975–80 ) . |
| 16 | What started out as an intention by the authors of Learning through Drama to express ‘ a specific point of view ’ ( p. 8 ) has apparently become the only authoritative reference ! |
| 17 | MAINS WIRING has suddenly become a sought-after communication channel . |
| 18 | Western currency , which had a mystical aura for many years , has suddenly become the ordinary , everyday legal tender . |
| 19 | Who exactly is the Euro-fighter meant to defend Britannia and our European allies against now that the Berlin Wall is down , the Soviet Union is rushing towards disarmament and the Warsaw Pact has suddenly become the best investment opportunity since the post-war Marshall Plan ? |
| 20 | Who exactly is the Euro-fighter meant to defend Britannia and our European allies against now that the Berlin Wall is down , the Soviet Union is rushing towards disarmament and the Warsaw Pact has suddenly become the best investment opportunity since the post-war Marshall Plan ? |
| 21 | Our own sonar is now locked on to this device and the sonar room has suddenly become the focal centre of interest in the Kilcharran . |
| 22 | Behaviour that historically , we would have pretended , did not happen in our good , God-fearing country , has suddenly become the latest front page filler this year . |
| 23 | It has thus become a vicious circle of spoken mumbo jumbo . |
| 24 | A good working relationship with Commission officials has thus become a high priority for those law firms which offer advice on Community law to UK businesses . |
| 25 | All the changes reported above indicate a conformational change of the DNA at the borders of the CRP site ( -70 , -80 and -50 ) and suggest a more extensive deformation of the DNA around the CRP-wild-type RNA polymerase complex . |
| 26 | Life-long food lover Wendy Vaughan has finally become a noted professional cook in North Wales . |
| 27 | Ironically , tour operators are strictly forbidden from seeking out belugas , because they are an endangered species , but the beluga has nevertheless become a powerful symbol of ecological neglect for those who have experienced the 3-hour cruises , complete with detailed lectures about the animal 's plight . |
| 28 | ‘ You must think what that means to a German composer who has just become an American citizen in the aftermath of the war , ’ Bamert says . |
| 29 | He has already become a familiar figure at St Wilfrid 's Primary School and he is also chaplain for St John 's Comprehensive . |
| 30 | He has already become a familiar figure at St Wilfrid 's Primary School , which he regularly visits both for pastoral duties and to enjoy the company of the pupils . |