Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Bond is intended as a medium to long term investment , it may be encashed at any time . |
| 2 | While they are best regarded as a medium to long term investment , you can always sell your units at any time you wish . |
| 3 | Hitherto regarded as a moderate in his policies towards the West , the president 's rhetoric is becoming less conciliatory with the approach of presidential elections in June . |
| 4 | It is rather that " social anthropologists have learnt from experience that the totality of the local community is usually treated by its members as an expanded domestic household ; though equally well one might say that a domestic household is treated as a fined down version of the total community . |
| 5 | The sun is often treated as an animate in English : to refer to its warm breath is to extend the metaphor . |
| 6 | According to German records the aircraft fell victim to A.A. fire ; it was in fact claimed as a probable by the guns , but was also attacked by Plt.Off . |
| 7 | The elements of the administrative structure will be sketched as a preliminary to discussion of the offences created by this Part of the Act . |
| 8 | I suspect that were I to appear of a sudden in royal regalia , crown , sceptre and all , it would be a different story ! ’ |
| 9 | He was good enough to work like a black for the Tories , but would they offer him a seat ? |
| 10 | In the former study the transition occurred within a homopolymeric AT sequence , while in the second a GpA junction ( of type XS ) was concerned . |
| 11 | The plane with 20 passengers on board was caught in a strong down draught but managed to touch down safely ten metres short of the runway . |
| 12 | This position is echoed by Lehrer ( 1987 : 256 ) , who states that " to has no meaning of its own " , by Buyssens ( 1987 : 341 ) , who asserts that it is a " well-known fact that when the infinitive is used as the subject , the predicate , or the direct object of the sentence , it is normally preceded by a meaningless to " , and by Andersson ( 1985 : 57 ) , who distinguishes between the preposition to , which has a meaning , and the pure to infinitive marker , " which only has the syntactic function to introduce [ sic ] an infinitive " . |
| 13 | Firm A has already been presented as a dependent for its now of business on maintaining a reputation with its largely immigrant clients . |
| 14 | Dill can usefully be grown as an ornamental in flower beds or vegetable potagers , for it is a pretty plant at every stage . |
| 15 | A career that began at Stoke City in 1930 , he played as a professional for more than 30 years . |
| 16 | It was in this late period , between 1380 and 1200 BC , that the cave cult really came into its own , acting as a night-safe for the whole fund of Minoan religious beliefs . |
| 17 | Having them both here busy looking for a flat for JONATHAN , who becomes nicer and nicer as he grows up ( and who can it seems sleep twelve hours on the trot night after night ) is quite exhausting , and at times annoying . |
| 18 | It will be seen as a marginal after this . |
| 19 | Yet he passes for a moderate within the fierce revolutionary council , the Dergue . |
| 20 | In other words , Firbas , like Halliday , acknowledges that a unit of information may consist of a given plus new element , or of just a new element . |
| 21 | The only reply was a muffled crunching as Cassowary disposed of a beak-full of berries , leaves and twigs . |
| 22 | She was beset of a sudden by a great fear … |
| 23 | In fact Nathaniel had grown into a dissolute of considerable proportions by the time Dowd entered his employ , and could not have cared less what kind of creature Dowd was as long as he procured the right kind of company . |
| 24 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 25 | So did one from Balfour , written from a sickbed in Carlton Gardens . |
| 26 | On one occasion , the car drove inside a coned off area of roadworks . |
| 27 | There were instances where young families had moved from an urban to a rural life and now wanted nothing else than a farming career . |
| 28 | Even if filter pipework appears clear , it will always benefit from a pull-through with a soft flue-brush , the type with a flexible handle . |
| 29 | If an item requires to be replaced we should ensure that we are replacing on a like for like basis and not giving the insured a superior item containing advanced features and additional facilities . |
| 30 | The neck is Brazilian mahogany , 44mm wide at the nut , finished in thin , gloss water-based lacquer like the rest of the guitar and shaped to a well-rounded V. The headstock , which is bound and has a koa wood facing to match the back and sides , carries a set of gold Schallers with ebony buttons . |