Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drexel successfully pioneered a mezzanine layer of financing between equity and bank debt for medium-sized American companies . |
| 2 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 3 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 4 | In addition , should Aegon increase its stake to 80 per cent , the possibility of closing the with-profits fund altogether becomes a serious one . |
| 5 | With this arrangement , two small or standard mattresses and bases fit together to make a double bed . |
| 6 | Pocket springs can help with differences of up to 4 or 5 stone , or try a zip and link bed with two different mattresses and bases that fit together to make a double bed . |
| 7 | As the shell emerges from the gun barrel at more than 15000 m/s , aluminium petals peel away to reveal a long , thin tungsten-alloy rod with fins at the rear to stabilise it and thus improve accuracy . |
| 8 | Transport nevertheless remained a major problem , and as Commandos ' equipment for raiding roles did not include those infantryman 's delights of defensive wire and mines — not , that is , in the normal course — they always had problems in battles of attrition . |
| 9 | Menzieshill still enjoy a three-point advantage with two games to play , but there is now no margin for error as they meet their main contenders , Kelburne , in a final game tomorrow night at the McTaggart Centre . |
| 10 | Hotpoint also offers a German-built integrated slimline model , 6820P , with similar features £599.99 |
| 11 | OOSD/C++ also features a graphical editor that automates the object-oriented structure design notation for C++ , as well as programmes for impact analysis and ensuring the consistency of diagram information . |
| 12 | Micrografx also produces a customized PostScript printer driver , which also offers features over and above the Windows generic version , but it ai n't cheap — it will set you back £100 . |
| 13 | Leogang also has a super leisure and fitness centre , with a heated open-air swimming pool . |
| 14 | We want now to introduce a different way of categorizing elite theory approaches , one which does not derive from the historical streams of thinking described so far . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Fortex already has a major presence in the UK through Towers and Co , which is the company 's official importer of chilled and frozen lamb into the UK . |
| 16 | ‘ Cost obviously plays a big part-we are more likely to support a car load for a day nearby , than a person for a day in Carlisle or Penzance ’ . |
| 17 | A set of mime sketches under the title Speak Easy provide a different kind of stimulus to oral production . |
| 18 | Keighley has also been involved in the arrangements for the first conference of clinical research nurses , at which they hope formally to launch a national organisation ( still to be named ) . |
| 19 | Then after the elections , the elections are to have a constituent assembly and that constituent assembly will work out our new constitution in the country and from that constituent assembly we hope also to form a national government of unity , of national unity and that 'll continue maybe for five years in order to give stability to the country and this of course also means a concession because it 's a concession to the existing power structures to have some kind of stability . |
| 20 | Jalloud also invited a French examining magistrate , Jean-Louis Bruguière , to return , " but not aboard a warship " . |
| 21 | These are slower-growing species than the annuals and will not be productive until the swidden stage is complete and in many cases not until the subsequent fallow is well established ; the different ages at which the perennials mature also facilitates a phased harvest so that the fallow stage is not unproductive . |
| 22 | After staring around and grunting a lot , Spunk reflexively saved a drunken girl from being roughed up in a sidewalk fracas outside a singles ' bar . |
| 23 | Indeed , the Copyright Designs and Patents Act now contains a specific right to make a back-up copy if necessary to the lawful use of the program concerned , section 50A . |
| 24 | Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen . |
| 25 | The May 6 issue proudly boasted a new circulation of 300,000 plus . |
| 26 | Zach hurriedly unpacked a soft flat parcel . |
| 27 | The prosperity which all these minor towns reveal occasionally has a local explanation : Todi 's neighbour , Assisi , was greatly enhanced when it became the burial place of St Francis and a centre of pilgrimage . |
| 28 | DALGETY , the Spillers to Golden Wonder food combine yesterday revealed a near 5 per cent increase in taxable profits despite the ‘ generally tough ’ trading conditions . |
| 29 | On the proximal arm segment the arm spines meet midradially forming a single fan . |
| 30 | Ill-health does not appear to have been a long-lasting problem , for , with John Field , Moorcroft soon established a flourishing practice , eventually with stabling for 63 sick horses , in Oxford Street , and a further 20 stalls at a branch in Hammersmith . |