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Example sentences of "[verb] move a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole .
2	But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ?
3	In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected .
4	Now the exercise has moved a further step forward , with yarn ranges presented to knitwear manufacturers and retailers .
5	You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit .
6	This argument is reversed when the load has to move a large distance , because a high operating speed is then required .
7	Yeah I mean if it 's somebody wanting to move a three-piece suite and just a few books , no , we 'd do it at the time .
8	But the deal has stalled after Caldaire management claimed a Government clause would make moving a financial impossibility .
9	But the deal has stalled because Caldaire management claim a Government clause would make moving a financial disaster .
10	But the deal has stalled because Caldaire management claim a Government clause would make moving a financial disaster .
11	But the plain fact is , and genuinely I mean this , er , er , erm , if it were as simple working across the boundaries between yourselves and the Health Authority , between yourselves and the private sector , with the voluntary sector , and the great army of unpaid helpers if it was that simple , erm , then we would have moved a long way along that line towards implementation of a humane and caring care in the community twenty years ago , when these debates first started .
12	Satellite surveillance is all very well , but it takes time to get information back and in that time a naval force can have moved a fair distance .
13	Bert started to move a huge pile of cardboard boxes which had once housed a variety of motor spares .
14	But when you 've moved a five-bedroomed house which has got a grand piano in it as well , and you 're about twenty to thirty foot at the back and all you can see is furniture furniture furniture furniture furniture , you can imagine as you go on you 're thinking God will we ever get to this ?
15	Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 .
16	I wish to move a short report on behalf of Standing Orders Committee .
17	What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading .
18	Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ?
19	Bus company management claim that any offer below £3.7m makes moving a financial impossibility .
20	Firstly , typical step lengths ( 15 degrees ) are longer than in the hybrid type so less steps are required to move a given distance .
21	We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it .