Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cool enough to wear a jacket at night . ’ |
| 2 | Frequently too , people who live in a particular geographic location combine together to form a pressure group if their neighbourhood has been earmarked by government for the siting of , for example , a new motorway or nuclear power station or the dumping of nuclear waste which is considered to constitute a substantial threat to their safety and health . |
| 3 | The one who took the lead looked big enough and mean enough to relish a ruck if there was a chance of one . |
| 4 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 5 | The women appear rather to get a share of the compensation for the " " il fit " " , the " unpleasant trick " ( 4184 ) that the clerks had suffered during the preceding day . |
| 6 | The skulls of an elephant and of a man are different shapes , but this is not because the molecules which fit together to make an elephant 's skull are a different shape from those that make a human skull . |
| 7 | In contrast , Echmatocrinus had plated structures on its polyp and tentacles but , unlike the co-occurring eocrinoids , the plates appear not to show a stereom structure . |
| 8 | She spoke with such vehemence Wilson thought it better not to risk a reply , though in her head she practised saying what nonsense she thought Mrs Browning spoke . |
| 9 | ‘ Better not to make an issue of it by my shifting , ’ Simon said . |
| 10 | ‘ People are clearly in earnest and want desperately to find a solution to keep the round on course , ’ a GATT official said . |
| 11 | Claire , Mark and Babur head off to find a car rental place . |
| 12 | We want also to build a society which strives always to unlock the talent and skills of its own people , to harness what Tawney once magnificently described as ‘ the extraordinary potential of ordinary people ’ . |
| 13 | Build up to form a frame for the russet chrysanthemums |
| 14 | If we consider sources of stress as ‘ stressors ’ which build up to form a number of pressures , then it becomes possible to identify where stress is coming from and what it can ultimately lead us to . |
| 15 | We have seen hundreds of the world 's best climate scientists urge immediate cuts in C02 emissions , but the politicians hesitate even to advocate a freeze on such emissions . |
| 16 | Hampton M. Vins PS I hope you will charge your lowest price for it , and if you please not to send a duffil one , but a cloth one , full yard long , fail not on Wednesday , please to send it by Mr. Field the Waterman , who comes to the Beehive , at Queenhithe , pray do n't send a duffil one but a cloth one . |
| 17 | So you tend to gradually come round to the view that unless it 's causing very bad visual pollution , or you 've had a run of complaints about it , then you tend not to take a stat . ’ |
| 18 | Or , among much robust , dark furniture , the zuzulu , a wooden settle part of whose back let down to make a table . |
| 19 | I am by no means certain , however , he is right because , if he is right , the silence of the Act as to whether applications can be made ex parte or inter partes — which means , in my judgment , they could be either in appropriate circumstances — has been by the Rules cut down to deprive a party from being able to make an ex parte application . |
| 20 | Yet , property taxes on Pocahontas-Kentucky 's surface land hardly yield enough to buy a bus for the county school system , and the $76 the county receives as payment on the mineral rights would not buy the bus a new tyre to replace the one worn out on the county 's unpaved and rough coal-hauling roads . ’ |
| 21 | But they seek also to have a religion which is in tune with the world in which we live . |
| 22 | It 's mostly chipboard based , but I did buy an old 60s wardrobe quite cheaply which I cut up to make a computer work station . |
| 23 | He knows that they are regarded simply as Tory party stooges put there to do a job on behalf of central office rather than to represent the interests of the people . |
| 24 | We show how to turn a problem area into an asset — transform a slope into something that you can be proud of . |
| 25 | You could join a firm as a trainee solicitor , become an assistant solicitor when qualified and hope ultimately to become a partner . |
| 26 | Other ways we find bands include : ( a ) being recognized in the industry as a company that is worth approaching ( managers with new artists drop in to play a tape to me or any of the other A&R people ) ; ( b ) demo tapes ( they all get heard eventually , but to get your tape picked out of the pile for special attention is difficult ) ; ( c ) seeing them play live on the London circuit . |
| 27 | Why should n't he , if he wanted to , drop in to have a chat with the landlord ? |
| 28 | It 's just a tiny fortyfooter , hardly room enough to swing a champagne bottle . |
| 29 | Silvikrin use a special blend of polymers in their Active Care styling range and explain that these polymers consist of string of carbon which link together to form a coating on the hair to protect it but will wash away easily so they do n't build up and dull shine . |
| 30 | Fundholding poses ethical problems , either because it secures a better service for the patients of a fundholding practice over those whose doctors happen not to hold a fund , or because it does not . |