Example sentences of "[noun pl] move [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she did so , the colourless lips moved in a faint moan . |
| 2 | Monks stared at Oliver , and his lips moved in a silent curse . |
| 3 | Katherine 's lips moved in a grim smile as she recalled some of the details — it had been quite a scandal . |
| 4 | His shoulders moved in a slight shrug . |
| 5 | Michele 's shoulders moved in a slight shrug . |
| 6 | Anxious that nothing should disturb her aunt , Alexandra had the hens moved to a small paddock the far side of the stables so that their greedy shouting for breakfast could not be heard in the house . |
| 7 | Bilateral animals move in a constant direction in such a way that one end is the front and the other the back . |
| 8 | Vowels move towards a neutral form when used in naturally flowing sentences . |
| 9 | The Hunters moved with a distorted slow-motion gait through the corridors of the abandoned station , occasionally taking off and flying a few metres . |
| 10 | Examples on wires moving in a magnetic field |
| 11 | ‘ You thought ? ’ he prompted gently , his fingers moving in a gentle caressing movement on the soft fabric of her sweater . |
| 12 | The ripple reflections moved in a continuous , tiny fluttering . |
| 13 | They moved warily , scuttling forward , overlapping each other , black wraith-like phantoms moving as a single entity , its rhythm known to them as ‘ house-laundering ’ — engaging the enemy at close quarters . |
| 14 | If the whites in Southern Africa could see this , not as a threat but as an opportunity — if they could grasp the truth that by a change of will and spirit they could deprive the Communists of their best propaganda weapon — there still might just be time for things to move in a new direction . |
| 15 | If Southland 's game is representative of New Zealand rugby , then it 's quick and the forwards move at a great pace ’ — JACK ROWELL ( England ‘ B ’ coach in New Zealand ) after the 31–16 win against Southland . |
| 16 | How could relatively small and expensive boarding-schools move in a similar direction within a system explicitly dedicated to comprehensiveness ? |
| 17 | Electrophysiological techniques have revealed units within the optic lobe mediating different visual functions : some respond to movement of small parts of the visual field , others react to long , contrasting boundaries moving in a preferred direction ; some subtend monocular visual fields , others cover the whole receptive area of both eyes , and so on . |
| 18 | When finally she emerged , having bathed and shampooed her hair , she shook her head , the honeyed strands moving in a silken swath about her face . |
| 19 | and bishops move on a tipsy tangent , |
| 20 | All cold-blooded creatures move at a leisurely pace , but are capable , as we have seen , of sudden flights of speed when necessary . |
| 21 | This is especially noticeable at cocktail and dinner parties , and it is still not unusual for the ladies to move to a separate room after dinner . |
| 22 | It was easier for Labour MPs and other party members to move to a new organization than to transfer to another party ; the SDP could stand for the memory of Attlee , Morrison and Gaitskell , and argue that the present-day Labour Party had moved away towards more extreme policies . |
| 23 | He distinguished clearly between velocity and acceleration and asserted that freely falling objects move with a constant acceleration that is independent of their weight , dropping a distance proportional to the square of the time of fall . |
| 24 | They make three assumptions : ( a ) the real polymer chains move in a mean field called the cage , and in the cage field each chain is confined in a tube-like region , the central line of which is defined as the primitive chain ; ( b ) the equilibrium conformation of the primitive chain is a random walk with step length a and arc length L ; ( c ) the primitive chain , as a whole , moves as a Brownian particle along itself , with curvilinear diffusion constant D. |
| 25 | Neighbours said one of the arrested men moved into a flat just before Christmas and lived with a woman presumed to be his wife and two sons in their mid-teens . |
| 26 | These were the kind of difficulties facing Helen Hallworth when she and her three teenage children moved from a large , elegant house into a smaller country cottage in a pretty village near York . |
| 27 | Semi-proletarianisation is closely linked to temporary intra-rural migration , as numbers of peasants move to a particular area for seasonal work and then move back to their small plots of land or on to another area , where a different crop has reached the planting or harvesting stage . |
| 28 | The gates move with a long , low creaking sound that echoes round the Castle . |
| 29 | Close ties with a medical publisher had enabled us to monitor early attempts to move from a traditional print-based publishing enterprise to new technologies : laser-disc publication had proved wasteful and made too many demands of staff with no experience in editing or marketing such material , let alone its production ; on-line database publication drawing on the company 's range of printed publications , many of which were in electronic form anyway before imprisonment on paper , proved more compatible with existing operations and more amenable to the skills of existing staff . |
| 30 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |