Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spiritual resources of patients can do a great deal to help in their recovery or bring about a peaceful death . |
| 2 | From Iago , too , Othello has caught the habit of repeating a word , dwelling on it to debase it or bring out a sinister double meaning ( compare Iago on ‘ virtue ’ and ‘ blest ’ : I.iii.318ff. ; II.i.245ff . ) . |
| 3 | Many of the difficulties children get into as they begin to explore the immediate environment of their home happen because they do not know enough to realize what will occur if they , for example , put their hands in a rose bush or pick up a shining splinter of glass . |
| 4 | Or pick up a cheap one . |
| 5 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 6 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 7 | The Association will provide past students with a chance to renew old friendships , make new contacts or build up a strong , useful network within the catering industry . |
| 8 | Supposing , against the odds , the Tories scrape home , or cobble together a working majority , the day-after rally could be spectacular . |
| 9 | Do n't be afraid to open up uncharted areas or kick down a few fences . |
| 10 | You can do this on Midland machines simply by pressing the appropriate button , And in some of our branches there are machines where you can use your card to see details of the last few account transactions or print out a short-form statement . |
| 11 | Jobs says the company has now decided on the RISC it will use , but declined to name it , or indicate when a RISC-based NeXT box would be available . |
| 12 | She also failed to notice the board had hired a teacher with convictions for exposing himself to schoolgirls , or ask why a probationary principal was still in place despite pleading guilty to a $21,000 welfare scam . |
| 13 | Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days . |
| 14 | Reports by the United Nations and Amnesty International detailed human rights abuses under the regime , one citing 14,000 cases of execution or torture over a six-year period . |
| 15 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 16 | Individuals with more complicated problems , that do not easily fit into the overall structure of the programme , may either be neglected or take up an inappropriate amount of group time . |
| 17 | The expansion you will face in 1993 could well be on the creative front , making this an ideal year to go into production or take on a major commitment . |
| 18 | But if your works pension is contracted out of SERPS , then you can either be a member of your works pension scheme OR take out a personal pension — but not both . |
| 19 | Or phone up a cheerful friend who always makes you laugh . |
| 20 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 21 | This section provides an overview of the various activities that make up a typical risk management programme , and then presents some examples of good practice derived from Engineering Council studies and other sources . |
| 22 | Both can be presumed to matter most when and where they are most influential — as in the charting of the interests , concerns and methods of analysis that make up a new academic discipline . |
| 23 | The opening screen is in fact a text editor that you can use to enter the commands that make up a QBasic program . |
| 24 | Football now has Bob Wilson of Arsenal and Emlyn Hughes of Liverpool and on independent television there is Ian StJohn and Jimmy Greaves ( ‘ The Saint and Greavsie ’ ) , who have taken the art of televised sport a step further by reproducing in the studio all the mixture of jokes and outlandish memories , bets , hunches , tactical shrewdness , and affectionate ‘ piss-taking ’ that make up a friendly hour in the pub . |
| 25 | The conclusions are based , as they have to be , on the smaller bits of behaviour that make up a given style . |
| 26 | The kind that cost about a hundred dollars on the black market . |
| 27 | These ranged from the mighty Rutland and Ampair models to the Forgen , an entirely different design of wind generator which has deeper vanes that rotate round a vertical shaft . |
| 28 | A 102 key tactile keyboard has keys that give out an audible click when depressed . |
| 29 | There was little Coleman could do in the circumstances except fill out an IAP-66 authorization form for Syrian George and take him over to the embassy for a J-1 visa to admit him to the United States for a course of study at UAB . |
| 30 | It is usually stopped from six to fifteen inches from the hook , but this can be increased or decreased for special situations that demand either a longer or shorter tail . |