Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the adventurers make a thorough search here , they have a 50% chance each for turning up a sealed vial with 2D4+1 doses of Trollbane , and another with D4+1 doses of Graveroot . |
| 2 | She had no time to spare for embarrassment , due to shoes totally unsuitable for climbing down a cliff path . |
| 3 | Is it any different from giving up a liberty to smoke ? |
| 4 | Coun. Mrs Kirkham , who is married with two teenage children , is a seasoned county councillor and was elected to represent Victoria ward in Thornaby in 1985 before taking up a seat on the borough council in 1987 . |
| 5 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 6 | So , when Caine told Peter Langan that he was interested in setting up a British restaurant along the lines of La Coupole , Langan found it an irresistible proposition . |
| 7 | But she added that she understood that AT&T was interested in setting up a competitor to Telecom Eireann . |
| 8 | It was interested in taking over a small mine called Wheal Concord but pulled out because financial prospects were poor . |
| 9 | Clare asked Carolyn , casually , if she was interested in taking on a few hours a week . |
| 10 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |
| 11 | I wonder if they 'd be interested in putting out a revised edition ? ’ |
| 12 | Rather than bringing about increased skills portability , YTS has proved instrumental in bringing about a sharpening of labour market segmentation , as the conditions surrounding entry to jobs at all levels has become more formalized and rigidified . |
| 13 | ‘ Sincerely believe that RR can be instrumental in bringing about an end to Iran/Iraq war — a la Roosevelt w/Russo Japanese War in 1904 , ’ North wrote to Poindexter in September 1986 . |
| 14 | The process of formally stating aims can be instrumental in bringing about an examination of assumptions if undertaken in a self-searching way . |
| 15 | In 1861 she was instrumental in setting up a home for workhouse girls sent out to service , so that they would not have to mix with women of bad character . |
| 16 | One reason why companies established in one member state are entitled to do business in another without setting up a permanent place of business in that state is that such a requirement might unreasonably inflate their costs . |
| 17 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 18 | Currently , one of the rather loosely applied definitive differences between plant and animal life is that plants can be propagated in either of two ways , sexually by means of seed , which involves male and female contributions from different plants or from different parts of the same plant , or asexually ( vegetatively ) by means of cutting and layering , which is analogous to cutting off an arm or a leg and growing an entirely new individual from such a part into a whole new body . |
| 19 | Dennis and his friend Tommy want to stop this by setting up a National Centre where doctors and medical scientists can undertake research to prevent premature birth . |
| 20 | We can do this by setting up a role play . |
| 21 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
| 22 | Some people fight shy of taking out a Personal Loan because they are worried about meeting the monthly repayments if they are unable to work because of sickness , accident or unemployment . |
| 23 | A man serving life for murdering a policeman has been found guilty of beating up a prison officer at a high security jail . |
| 24 | Archaeologists , anthropologists and psychologists are all guilty of shovelling up a multitude of references to the feminine and labelling the heap as the ‘ Great Mother ’ . |
| 25 | Public examination systems are constructed on this principle and have another feature too , that of setting up a norm each year , on which each pupil is judged . |
| 26 | What may appear to be an ordinary action , such as picking up a slipper to put it on , can trigger an unusual response from the dog if it has been hit with a shoe in a previous home . |
| 27 | To put the case simply , such a pupil may not be able to undertake a task such as cutting out a paper figure , not because of not understanding how to do so , but because of being unable to see properly how it is done . |
| 28 | If a user undertakes any procedure which results in the movement of modules between locations , such as booking out a module or performing Quality Assurance activitites , the Cyclic Redundancy Check will be performed on each of the modules which have been moved . |
| 29 | Actions associated with sites , such as running round a stone , usually have to be done three or nine times . |
| 30 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |