Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bush administration 's revision of its Indo-China policy was designed to forestall a possible congressional rebellion over the issue . |
| 2 | The Bush administration 's revision of its Indo-China policy was partly designed to forestall a potential congressional rebellion over the issue . |
| 3 | The action demonstrated the belief that Korea was ready for independence and was intended to forestall a lengthy American occupation or the Americans advancing Koreans of their own choice . |
| 4 | at present , one major illness is enough to financially ruin and emotionally wreck a white middle-class family . |
| 5 | If you encounter a specific behavioural problem later , it may also be worth discussing this with your vet in case a medical condition could be responsible , and treatment can be provided . |
| 6 | Just after the agreement was announced , Sarajevo Radio reported that Yugoslav fighter jets had launched new attacks on Croat-populated villages in western Bosnia and that army units had surrounded a strategic Muslim-populated town east of the Neretva river . |
| 7 | Anya surreptitiously scratches a small reddish patch on her wrist . |
| 8 | One of these classes loves a great musical treat , that is , a powerful sound ; to that end they play with a rich texture , extremely fast , study the most difficult and the fastest octaves . |
| 9 | Outdoor Action writer Paul Traynor is tackling a long backpacking trip along Italy 's northern Apennines — the country 's spinal mountain chain . |
| 10 | Officials , wary of the effects the soggy going could have on horses tackling a long hilly course , have taken the precaution of cutting the fences from 38 to 34 and have also slightly reduced the length of the course . |
| 11 | It wanted to catch a fat little pig for its supper . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd have been better off getting them to help him compose a Dear Marje letter . |
| 13 | Cerene white glazes will increase the percentage of first quality tiles from fast fire manufacturing processes — processes that involve a single rapid firing step . |
| 14 | This occurs because most tropical rainforest biogeochemical cycles involve a tight intra-system relationship between the living biomass and the litter which contains the major reservoirs of nutrients ; this is in contrast to the biogeochemical cycles of temperate and boreal forests wherein the soil plays a much more significant role in nutrient recycling ( see Mannion 1986e for a more complete discussion of these relationships ) . |
| 15 | The allegations that such developments are somehow unprecedented , together with the feeling that they involve a massive historical shift , are entirely typical . |
| 16 | What is important for explaining the occurrence of the bare infinitive here is the way the means are viewed by the speaker : all the uses of how + bare infinitive involve a clear negative bias as to the existence of any means of realizing the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 17 | It was half past one before they got back to Rose Cottage and there was no denying a brisk long country walk built up the appetite . |
| 18 | Possibly the occasional spurious light ray causes a corresponding bad reading whose error is averaged out . |
| 19 | An infusion of B sauveolens , regularly used in the Brisbane region , causes a central anticholinergic syndrome with wildly disturbed behaviour , visual hallucinations , and dilated pupils . |
| 20 | It causes a bit-by-bit binary inversion of the numeric to its right . |
| 21 | Protein molecules called enzymes are machines in the sense that each one causes a particular chemical reaction to take place . |
| 22 | Cities are a karst topography with sewers performing precisely the function of limestone caves in Yugoslavia , which causes a parched physical environment , especially in city centres , |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Identifying the specific new mutation in a particular gene that causes a given inherited disease in a patient . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that smoking causes a local immunological defect , which could facilitate the infection and persistence of human papillomavirus . |
| 25 | It also causes a fatal Aids-like illness in some species of monkey . |
| 26 | At the end of the gallery Mr Molloy has designed a tall wooden column inspired by the vertical nature of hangul , the Korean script , which has been inscribed with part of a Korean poem cycle . |
| 27 | To give more effective stripping , 3M has designed a special Stripping Tool which , unlike wire wool , will not stain wood with rust spots , while also speeding up stripping on flat surfaces . |
| 28 | Caterers from Lexington were providing a banquet , and the local bakery had designed a huge oval birthday cake . |
| 29 | Delving into the local history of the area , I discovered with amusement that in the early 1850s a certain superintendent of the then London & Birmingham Railway works at Wolverton had designed a fast new locomotive . |
| 30 | Concurrent Computer Corp , Oceanport , New Jersey has launched a Series 7000 Investment Protection Programme under which its customers can buy and install a new Concurrent Series 7000 system and then order the compatible upgrade to the next generation system , which will be introduced later this year . |