Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was brilliant at invective , and making general statements about the need to communicate a politically responsible set of values , but neither he nor any of his friends were screenwriters , nor were they motivated to work with writers on ideas that were their own . |
| 2 | This ritual of identification was used to preface a more titillating by-line : MY BEDROOM BATTLE WITH THE FOX Pages 23 , 24 and 25 . |
| 3 | If we are tackling a very big warren it is probable that only the most likely of the bolt-holes will have been fitted with purse nets , simply because insufficient nets are available . |
| 4 | To start unravelling stress ‘ from the bottom ’ they may invent or seek a range of tension-reducing activities , which we might group into two categories , those that relax softly and gently , and those that involve a more vigorous release . |
| 5 | The method used to detect DNA bending depends on the principle that a bend near the end of a restriction fragment causes a less pronounced reduction in electrophoretic mobility as compared to a bend in the middle . |
| 6 | Insider trading on undisclosed information causes a more gradual adjustment in share prices than if the information is made public ( Manne , 1966 , p.87 ) . |
| 7 | In addition , the drag of the airbrakes causes a more rapid deceleration . |
| 8 | It causes sores on the lips , face , eyes , and mouth , on the genitalia , occasionally elsewhere on the skin , and rarely causes a very serious infection in the central nervous system of the newborn . |
| 9 | It 's being it is being prescribed t for huge numbers of people , it 's being promoted as a very safe drug , it 's a very profitable drug , and we already know that it causes a very large number of quite serious side effects . |
| 10 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
| 11 | Suicide and anorexia are by no means mutually exclusive phenomena , but in the typical case of primary anorexia nervosa suicide is simply not a factor , except perhaps when depression has won a particularly resounding victory , and the shame of defeat becomes unbearable . |
| 12 | The Government has won a very important victory . |
| 13 | The sight alone would have won a more sentimental soul , but the Balmoral workers shared their countrymen 's pride in hard headedness . |
| 14 | Nine of the poems were by Opitz , and Schutz contributed a little strophic duet at the end of the volume . |
| 15 | Oxfam NoLoGo has succeeded in making the concept of recycling fun and giving charity shops a completely new look . |
| 16 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 17 | While he provided a remarkably accurate description of the development of the chick , he remained convinced , against his own evidence , that the embryo was present before the egg was laid . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) Ptolemy 's model provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky . |
| 19 | In Ptolemy 's model provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky , the theme is Ptolemy 's model . |
| 20 | Alas John , my day was spoilt , not by two teams who provided a reasonably good game but by people who should have known better . |
| 21 | The test took place in a unique setting : the top deck of an old Bembridge pilot cutter , now the Essex YC 's clubhouse ; this provided a reasonably open setting with little wind shadow . |
| 22 | The difference between the two information sheets was that one provided a rather sketchy outline of possible postoperative complications ( derived from a survey of what 10 house officers actually told hernia patients when they obtained consent ) , and the other contained a more comprehensive list ( boxes ) . |
| 23 | With respect to the coming to an end of a temporary job as a source of flows into unemployment , available evidence provided a rather unclear picture . |
| 24 | The contrast with the squalor of the old Cinque Port provided a rather romantic paradox . |
| 25 | During the campaign , he was put out to grass with three old political warhorses , Denis Healey , Norman Tebbit and Roy Jenkins , who provided a rather genial breakfast-time alternative to the Old Devils . |
| 26 | In the event , the masculine qualities associated with classical studies when channelled into English provided a most effective antidote to the traditional female associations of literature . |
| 27 | First , it provided a most favourable environment for the development of capitalism — a stable , well-organized political system , with a rational and effectively administered body of law , especially in so far as it related to property and contracts . |
| 28 | 11,13 ) indeed argued that capitalism provided a most favourable environment for the growth of a rational and critical outlook which might then be turned against the capitalist social system itself . |
| 29 | I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments . |
| 30 | The nineteenth edition , published in 1979 , included Phoenix schedules which merged 329 and 324 to give a new schedule for the Political Process , and provided a completely new schedule for Sociology . |