Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 2 | Normally printers of this type are classified as non-impact but this version actually deposits carbon rather than burn away a layer of silvering . |
| 3 | The extra work is needed to cope with demand for its new Rover 800 saloon , which although launched just a year ago is hammering opposition in the executive market . |
| 4 | If thought right a proposal must go to Divisions and be put at the Annual General Meeting . |
| 5 | Aunt Louise 's eyes were over-bright and she tried to pass her hand across them as if to brush away a cobweb . |
| 6 | Now this particular size , because do quite a lot of sizes as well , er , we do five different diary formats . |
| 7 | It would be hard to justify living as well as you do while paying only a pittance for the privilege . ’ |
| 8 | The man entrusted with the steering this year is Ray Cochrane , who proved that 20 days on the sidelines had not dulled either his skills or competitive edge when driving home a double at Wolverhampton on Monday , his first day back , and adding another winner yesterday . |
| 9 | Yet governments ought to resist the temptation to dismiss peace movements as representing only a minority opinion , for it is in the nature of a wider but vaguer anxiety about the issue that it can hardly be organized or form the basis of a coherent campaign . |
| 10 | She made a gesture with her crippled hand as though brushing away a cobweb , to dismiss the memory . |
| 11 | The professor seemed not to realise that she was a servant , perhaps because she was so much with the Carsons as to seem almost a member of the family . |
| 12 | ‘ We even went so far as to put together a group and do some touring ; we did a club tour of the States and a mini-tour in Japan , too . |
| 13 | In essence ( although we have rephrased and restructured his argument to some extent ) , Bottoms sees the penal system as suffering both a crisis of legitimacy and a crisis of resources . |
| 14 | Each subtractive primary can be thought of as taking away a component from white ; thus yellow is , ‘ minus blue ’ and magenta is ‘ minus green ’ so a mixture of yellow and magenta inks will produce white minus blue minus green — in other words , red . |
| 15 | The approach to the senior staff of a Company has to be very cautious when putting forward a policy for alcoholism , drug addiction or other forms of addictive disease in the work-place . |
| 16 | This could be an important consideration for a personnel manager when putting together a cost justification for a system . |
| 17 | Other considerations when putting together a share valuation permanent file : |
| 18 | But we do keep going the wages for the crews are paid , the ships go for their refits , and in the Ingard group 's annual report the ships are shown as making quite a lot of money — more than we used to make in the old days . |
| 19 | They intended , when supplying both a louvre door and a set of folding door gear not to charge carriage on the latter . |
| 20 | As to take home a copy of the appropriate operating and safety instruction leaflet , so you can familiarise yourself with these procedures . |
| 21 | Recovering quickly from a slow start , John Gosden 's colt settled matters in the space of a few strides when sent ahead a furlong out . |
| 22 | Among the former are many participles , both present and past : ( 26 ) the watching crowd started to laugh he was greeted by smiling well-wishers the injured man had been feeding the orang-utan but participles do not exhaust the possibilities : ( 27 ) the angry bartender slammed the drink down five empty tumblers were standing by his elbow Notice , too , the clear ambiguity of : ( 28 ) a flashing light as meaning either a light which is flashing on some particular occasion , or one which normally has this characteristic . |
| 23 | We used to go to bed earlier the day before , not so much to please mother as to bring to-morrow a bit sooner . |
| 24 | As mentioned earlier a routine can often be regarded as a written task description . |
| 25 | As described elsewhere a region round the edge of the allotted rectangle must be empty of light material . |