Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in rats subjected to stress did bFGF ( given subcutaneously in a large dose ) cause a small but significant attenuation of the mucosal lesions and this was accompanied by increased gastric blood flow suggesting that the maintenance of gastric circulation in stressed rats could explain this protection . |
| 2 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 3 | It 's important to go somewhere with a good kindergarten where they can just be looked after or taught to ski . |
| 4 | Yet years on how come that it is Cecil who is regarded mostly as a flawed but well meaning sweety-pie and Miss Keays as someone who has all the charisma of an old battleaxe ? |
| 5 | Adam ran crashing downhill in a narrow dark ride , almost into the arms of a man who came striding suddenly out of the bushes , sword in hand . |
| 6 | The tube I was in on Wednesday had to go slowly through a deserted and evacuated Victoria Station and one 's heart beats a little fast wondering if something will go off . |
| 7 | The gates led right onto a busy road , there were some derelict public loos next door and a boating lake opposite . |
| 8 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 9 | But in our present context , it raises the question as to whether the call of the Killer whaler is recognized instinctively by a new-born seal or porpoise or whether it is learnt during adolescence , while in the company of parents . |
| 10 | It is likened locally to a stranded whale , and dominates the area . |
| 11 | The fibres of a healing tendon are initially arranged microscopically in a criss-cross pattern with little strength associated with this scar tissue . |
| 12 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 13 | 2 The defender drives upward with a full knee spring out of the attacker 's reach . |
| 14 | When interrogated by the FBI in his British jail , Fuchs identified photographs of one of his contacts , Harry Gold , who named a trail of others which led eventually to an obscure machine-shop manager of Russian parentage , Julius Rosenberg , and his wife Ethel . |
| 15 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 16 | At the end of the incubation period , the gel piece is transferred into a new plastic tray containing 300 ml of freshly made DMS-stop buffer ( 0.5 M β-mercaptoethanol , 150 mM Tris-HCl , pH 7.3 , 5 mM EDTA ) and shaken vigorously on a rocking platform for 10' at 37°C ( at this temperature DMS is rapidly hydrolysed accelerating its inactivation ) . |
| 17 | There is clearly mutual benefit to be gained from this acquisition , for both our UK and US companies , and we look forward to this area of our business competing effectively on an international basis . ’ |
| 18 | One could perhaps say that the pronoun here refers successfully via a discourse-deictic reference to a prior NP . |
| 19 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 20 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 21 | By the same token , back payments of income support were to be limited only to a three-year period starting in April 1988 . |
| 22 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 23 | He permanently secretes a thick , transparent mucus about this body , which is clad only in an ancient blue-black robe . |
| 24 | A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle . |
| 25 | It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch . |
| 26 | When it begins to set , splash a little water on to it , and rub gently with a pointing trowel in a circular motion , to smooth flush , leaving little or no sanding . |
| 27 | San Vincenzo is a lovely resort of clear soft sands interrupted only by a few emerging reefs . |
| 28 | An XY graph plots points alone in a two dimensional graph relating two factors . |
| 29 | They sit together in a non-smoking section . |
| 30 | It is better to regard the system of county government as a body of professional people placed together in a large office at County Hall , who can call upon the representatives from all places throughout the area which they administer . |