Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
| 2 | A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go . |
| 3 | You would n't think for a dainty little thing would you ? |
| 4 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 5 | The Lancashire skipper then had to wait for a tense two minute trial by television to decide whether he could continue his burgeoning innings . |
| 6 | The fans are still hoping the terraces will be filled for a bright new future to come . |
| 7 | JOHN ROLFE and Adrian Breton will be competing for a British Olympic place at the weekend when the rapid fire pistol match in the World Cup Tournament in Los Angeles will be the decider for Barcelona , writes Leslie Howcroft . |
| 8 | Of course the addition of a stereo processor would require a slightly bigger case but would still make for a manageable little rig . |
| 9 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 10 | CDTV uses a CD-ROM system coupled to a powerful computer , disguised as a domestic electronic appliance . |
| 11 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 12 | In the first year Armstrong 's concern is to go for a minimum safe agenda — ‘ make sure clients are safe and then build on that . ’ |
| 13 | He was first jailed and then compelled to leave Rome ; he is said to have died in the Punic city of Utica , a remarkable place to go for a disgraced Roman intellectual ( St Jerome , Chron. a. 1816 , p. 135 Helm ) . |
| 14 | The drivers , said to go for a small fixed-price fee , will be delivered in a binary-only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or maintenance agreement . |
| 15 | The drivers , said to go for a small fixed-price fee , will be delivered in a binary-only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or any maintenance agreement , and may not be sold . |
| 16 | Thus Scargill was reluctant to go for a third national ballot under his leadership , and the fourth in four years . |
| 17 | Er , turning to the media investments , well we all tend to think that the er , the bids tended to be on the high side but er , at least Yorkshire got the licence for the next ten years and they have the option in ninety eight to go for a further ten years and I can tell you er , because I 've had er , lots of conversations with Clive that they 're really working on , on making the best improving their returns from that franchise and I 'm quite sure they 'll succeed . |
| 18 | Prevent plants in containers and hanging baskets from drooping during a long hot summer by adding water-retentive gel , such as Broadleaf P4 , to the compost . |
| 19 | All the evidence suggests that early involvement in choral singing can awaken an interest which lasts for a lifetime , and church musicians have always seen school singing as a natural preliminary to the distinctive tradition of Anglican music . |
| 20 | Mujjaddedi had on June 21 threatened not to hand over power ( as required by the Peshawar accord ) to Rabbani , whom he branded as a Khomeini-like Islamic radical . |
| 21 | If , as a returner , you prefer to remain as a second level nurse , there should be no problem in obtaining a place on a re-entry programme . |
| 22 | Aim for a margin of safety by allowing for a further two to three minutes ' ‘ sudden death ’ extension after that . |
| 23 | After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 . |
| 24 | Persian rugs have traditionally been considered the most expensive and easily re-saleable of all oriental rugs , and allowing for a few notable exceptions ( usually older and more collectable items from different parts of the world ) , this assumption has generally held true . |
| 25 | The biggest building is a rectangular , windowless hulk erected for a short-lived Anglo-American attempt to develop an over-the-horizon radar system called Cobra Mist . |
| 26 | In the nineteenth century , after the American and French revolutions , another distinction — between monarchy and republic — assumed great importance , and republicanism developed as a radical political movement directed against survivals or attempted restorations of the ancien regime , merging to a large extent with the general democratic movement . |
| 27 | Was the RHA aware of the conclusions of the Camden and Islington working party on Friern , that there should be new buildings for the old long-stay population on the Friern site , and that the hospital should be developed as a specialist psychogeriatric and teaching service ? |
| 28 | Forte applications are developed as a single monolithic application and then subsequently partitioned or automatically broken up to run on various computers within the distributed environment . |
| 29 | For example , long-run earnings per share ( ) could be calculated as a three-year moving average . |
| 30 | The Dowsing Fault-Zone can still be distinguished as a separate structural zone which has seen Tertiary re-activation , as shown in Profile 1 . |