Example sentences of "[conj] move [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To carry out nursing procedures designed to enhance physical and psychological comfort , e.g. lifting or moving into a comfortable positions orientating the patient or answering questions . |
| 2 | So , a bigger church was needed to cater for the rapidly increasing numbers , and a most un-lamb like argument over whether they should extend or move to a new site raged for six years . |
| 3 | You can double back on yourself or move from a numbered block to a normal one without penalty — the numbered one remains if you need to return to it ( and you will ) . |
| 4 | " Foreign " or " rat " labour , as it was called in the trade , consisted of unemployed compositors from other towns , who might be tempted to work for lower rates , or to move into a strike-bound area because they were " on the tramp " and desperate for jobs . |
| 5 | However , firms must consider that moving to a new area can break ties with existing customers and suppliers and could lead to a loss of business if new links are not forged straight away . |
| 6 | Parents that move into a new area will often ask estate agents about schools in the neighbourhood . |
| 7 | I have discussed the impact that moves towards a Single Currency may have , especially if the Maastricht Treaty were to come into force . |
| 8 | It 's a great melodic motif that moves through a I-VI-II-V progression — a serious R&B ballad . |
| 9 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |
| 10 | Exactly 3.7 nanoseconds after play commences , I 'm usually hurling abuse at the game , the C64 , my fellow ZZAP ! reviewers and anything that moves within a ten-yard radius . |
| 11 | After 27 years at Sywell Airport , the Barnstormers Flying Circus have packed their tent and moved to a new home at Spanhoe Airfield , near RAF Wittering in the north of Northamptonshire . |
| 12 | London , with its highly compact districts , took the lead in this , and moved to a two-tier rather than three-tier organisation . |
| 13 | But when she married and moved to a distant part of the country , I decided it was the moment for me to change my life too . |
| 14 | They left the house in Chertsey and moved to a quiet cottage in the country , taking Oliver with them . |
| 15 | ‘ When Agnes disappeared , ’ replied Monks , ‘ her father changed his name and moved to a lonely place in Wales , where no one would know about the family shame . |
| 16 | Her mother married housing manager John Moluf four years ago and moved to a big house in neighbouring Malta . |
| 17 | A day-trip from Phuket had only whetted our appetite and we had left that tourist ghetto by local bus and moved into a hot and grubby Chinese hotel in Phang Nga town . |
| 18 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 19 | He was changed since his days at Lancaster 's court ; with all his polish and scholarship , which neither time nor place could tarnish , he had nevertheless shed all the cramping tensions of city life , and moved like a young stag , long-stepping in motion and magnificently abandoned in repose . |
| 20 | There is then an attempt to generalize and move towards a universal ‘ myth ’ that can stand for all the utterances of a similar type in their various discursive contexts . |
| 21 | A much more unusual kind of tonal conflict is occasionally found where composers add one piece of music to another , as in the works of Charles Ives , where the strains of a military band or an organ may be added to the orchestra , in a different key and moving at a different tempo . |
| 22 | The arguments for a common currency , common defence and foreign policies and moving towards a united Europe have hardly started to be made . |
| 23 | Then one day I found myself sitting in a packed car and we were away and moving into a new house in a place called Tintagel . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , it does take up most of my time — that and moving into a new house . ’ |
| 25 | Tall , broad-shouldered and moving like a great dark cat , he infuriated her , confirming yet again her opinion of men . |
| 26 | They expect to sell to a developer and move into a modern bungalow on 13 acres less than a mile away . |
| 27 | To buy back a few of her father 's paintings she would be glad to sell the house and move into a rented flat . |
| 28 | The intermediate group lacks any strong class identity because of the range of occupations within it , and because many of its members become socially mobile and move into a different class . |
| 29 | ‘ The impression has been given that it is easy to obtain a justices ’ licence and move into a public house , ’ he said . |
| 30 | AHT Surveys again had a satisfactory year and the Company was able to extend its premises in Great Yarmouth and move into a purpose-built facility in Aberdeen . |