Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that the target struck by the cauldron suffers a strength 5 hit , while remaining targets suffer only a strength 3 hit . |
| 2 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 3 | Brazil will fill Wembley next March and if they show just a fraction more ambition near goal it will be a night to remember . |
| 4 | Friedrich Engels singled out the river Aire in Leeds and the Irk in Manchester for special mention : ‘ In dry weather , a long string of the most disgusting , blackish-green slime pools are left standing on this bank , from the depth of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable . ’ |
| 5 | It is revealing , for example , to compare Engels ' description of Manchester courts close to the Irk , ‘ from the depths of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable ’ , with Mrs Gaskell 's account of a Manchester court in Mary Barton . |
| 6 | In order to set a baseline her parents set aside an hour each evening for one week during which they did not tell Lindsay to stop , but recorded the duration of each nose picking session and the frequency . |
| 7 | You not only get reliability with microcontrollers , single chip microcomputers , but you get potentially a lot more flexibility . |
| 8 | One official said ‘ Twenty or so forgeries have turned up so far , but we believe quite a number more are in the system . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't know oh cos I do n't know , I think so a lot noisier than usual in here . |
| 10 | I see in today 's papers that Batty will be back in the team for tomorrow , does this mean that Wilko will drop Fairclough or Newsome or will he let Rocky go back to the bench and play essentially a back 6 ? |
| 11 | Now that should give me the same answer as if I do ten take away five so it 's take away a plus five , Yeah ? |
| 12 | So we do , ten take away a plus nine , that 's just take away nine . |
| 13 | That just comes to take away five , and then take away a plus one , take away one . |
| 14 | Take away a minus three , is the same as adding the three . |
| 15 | So take away a minus three is the same as adding a plus three , and what would that come to ? |
| 16 | The interesting one is when we 've got take away a minus three , that 's the same as add the positive three , add plus three . |
| 17 | Plans for the evening include just a bit more cake , a few more presents and the simple kind of games that children really enjoy . |
| 18 | That 's a diamond and sapphire just a bit bigger than yours |