Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 2 | John is grateful for inheriting a full head of hair . |
| 3 | I think erm my two , or perhaps three , favourite novelists for today would be William Golding , Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch , and it seems to me that at least part of their importance is that they are really concerned with moral themes , as George Eliot was , even though , like George Eliot , they are shy about forcing a particular moral down the throat of a reader . |
| 4 | Mynott was jailed for life in 1980 for murdering a 54-year-old man near his home in Hemel Hempstead , Herts . |
| 5 | Firstly , although every Australian has an equal right to be treated in a public hospital , the income that can be derived from treating a privately insured patient is greater than that for treating a public patient in the same facilities . |
| 6 | Following last year 's Masters , I received a letter from a reader who suggested that ‘ no-one in Britain before had been so generally popular through winning a sporting trophy than Woosnam ’ . |
| 7 | They 're not really used for serious cooking but are OK for making a hot drink en route . |
| 8 | It 's terribly difficult trying to get from them any acknowledgements that there could be something wrong about making a complimentary remark to a young woman . |
| 9 | Neither , however , are adequate for generating a full picture of elders , and more work is needed to achieve this . |
| 10 | Recent work in the philosophy and sociology of science has emphasized that experimental results are rarely adequate for making a definitive choice between competing theories . |
| 11 | Fibre blends can improve carpet performance ; a mixture of 80% wool and 20% nylon is particularly popular for providing a good combination of warmth , resilience , wear , low flammability and resistance to soiling . |
| 12 | Wood chip papers are the most popular for giving a light ‘ oatmealy ’ texture for a very cheap price . |
| 13 | It is viewed by some as having a prime role as a respite for carers , others additionally see their role as assisting in the more practical needs such as baths , chiropody , medication etc . |
| 14 | It does this through encouraging a favourable internal climate of opinion in which all employees can feel involved with , and understand , the firm 's affairs . |
| 15 | President Yang Shangkun and an entourage which included Foreign Minister Qian Qichen , returned to Beijing on July 12 after completing a two-week state visit to Morocco , Tunisia , and Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 16 | Although he was acquitted on one count of assault and another of filing a false police report , the jury had been unable to reach a decision on the charge that Powell had abused his authority through the use of excessive force . |
| 17 | Do n't be afraid of using a code-driven package if this provides the fine control you need . |
| 18 | Was one of you afraid of losing a tenuous hold on the other ? ’ |
| 19 | She remains gutsy throughout presenting a harder edge to previous Ritas I have seen . |
| 20 | Obviously the faster the machine the better and there is nothing wrong with using a super 486 for the job . |
| 21 | And what 's really wrong with knocking a few of the rough edges off your partner ? |
| 22 | … many professional librarians believe that running a College Library is no different from administering a public library and therefore the former can be staffed by public library assistants . |
| 23 | It is obviously different from fostering a small child , because there may be far more potential for personality clashes as young women try to cope with having a baby and having a foster mother . |
| 24 | BIRDLAND , fresh from recording a new EP under the helm of Verve/Scorpio Rising producer Barry Clempson , play London Gray 's Inn Road Water Road Water Rats |
| 25 | Mr Baker was not entirely wrong in wanting a simple , forceful document for parents , though he failed to understand that some difficult issues — the teaching of grammar or Standard English , for example — need careful and detailed explanation . |
| 26 | The present exhibition features 165 works of art created in New York and California by twenty-one artists of a generation which had been schooled in the bold brushwork of Abstract Expressionism but was interested in exploring a new range of subjects drawn from daily experience and popular or commercial sources . |
| 27 | Very often , Western copyright and patent holders are more interested in exporting a few products at high prices than in selling licences or granting permissions at prices that Third World countries can afford . |
| 28 | A sick horse will not be interested in trying a new good quality food while it is ill and when it may really need it . |
| 29 | The fact that a particular publication does not offer these types of promotion on a regular basis does not mean that it will not be interested in discussing a bright idea . |
| 30 | Second , there is a category composed of people who work on an irregular basis , but with whom the organisation is interested in developing a continuing relationship . |