Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitch Hatfield , marketing manager at Middlesbrough is hesitant about dismissing the scheme out of hand for his club but says there are no plans at present . |
| 2 | Many new school volunteers were apprehensive about visiting the hospital , anxieties fed by their fear of the unknown . |
| 3 | Such procedures are right for generating the phenomenon in Wagner 's associative form — a series of widely spaced exposure trials will promote the formation of a context-stimulus association ; and the after-effects of presentation of the target stimulus could not be expected to survive a 24-h retention interval . |
| 4 | There will consequently be a longer gap than usual between buying the material and receiving payment for the delivered order . |
| 5 | There will consequently be a longer gap than usual between buying the material and receiving payment for the delivered order . |
| 6 | Erm , but following on from that , wherever we change layouts now we try and be very specific about organizing the cable management up front and , so that they do n't present any hassles . |
| 7 | The CLAWS tagset used for tagging the LOB corpus is very similar to that of TAGGIT but is somewhat larger with 134 tags to achieve greater delicacy of analysis while preserving compatibility with the Brown corpus ( Johansson et al , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | The police say they 're considering charges against the 3 youths , but add that the youths now realise how foolish they were to fire the replica in the street and are deeply sorry for frightening the family . |
| 9 | But the Department of Industry , in whose province this matter falls , is extraordinarily shy about discussing the issue . |
| 10 | But if neither China nor East Germany is shy about attacking the West , both tread gingerly over the problem at the heart of their common predicament - what to do about their fellow socialists . |
| 11 | I will give you an example of what one might be confronted with in the future from , from a piece from the Environment Committee in the House of Commons ' Report on Coastal Zone Planning and Management and it says here , we fail to see what is impractical about treating the seabed as submerged land an opinion shared by the Royal Town Planning Institute no less and if planning authorities can deal with issues like public rights of way , aggregate extraction multiple use on land , they should be able to cope with rights of navigation and extraction of sea . |
| 12 | Sorry about stopping the tape but it keeps on cutting out cos your microphone is absolutely shit . |
| 13 | After my success , I was less sorry about deserting the stockade . |
| 14 | Sorry about cutting the top of your head off but , never mind , you know ! |
| 15 | Of course , I would be very guarded about allowing the Wizard from Oz 's sound to be the sole influence in choosing an instrument , because it ca n't be said often enough that a player 's style is almost as individual as his DNA . |
| 16 | Nowadays I am obsessional about checking the gadget , particularly as I use it infrequently . |
| 17 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 18 | Why are we in Britain made to feel guilty about flying the Union Jack just because on occasions it is used by extremists ? — . |
| 19 | ‘ Some lead such active lives that we found it difficult to arrange a time for interview , while others are so isolated and lonely that our interviewers felt guilty about terminating the interview and leaving them to themselves . ’ |
| 20 | In that way , I think they 'd be much more prepared for learning the skill than if they go completely unprepared and see children looking at books and saying things and it makes no sense to them . |
| 21 | In that way , I think they 'd be much more prepared for learning the skill than if they go completely unprepared and see children looking at books and saying things and it makes no sense to them . |
| 22 | For an agency to attempt strategies , policy guidelines or practice procedures on elder abuse it must be clear about defining the problem . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sorry , but one has to be careful about opening the door at night . ’ |
| 24 | Well round about that point , We 've got to be very careful because , we 've got to be very careful about interpreting the model as reality . |
| 25 | I 'm really careful about putting the rubbish out . |
| 26 | No high for finishing the marathon if you do n't run through the nerves at the start , the blisters , the soft grey stage of the race where the roadscape does n't change , where it feels as though you have done it all and yet there are still a few miles to go . |
| 27 | Incidentally , what was so funny about leaving the doctor a tube of Winsor blue ? |
| 28 | It is not adequate for describing the task 's operators , nor does it suffice for description of the whole search space . |
| 29 | He felt doubtful about patrolling the library precincts to accost Mrs Brocklebank on her way to collect an armful of romance . |
| 30 | Each side of my backside raw through riding the owd horses . |