Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [conj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tastes brown and leaves a little dust crunching between the teeth . |
| 2 | Mildew is destructive to cotton whereas nylon looks stained and smells a bit but the fabric remains intact . |
| 3 | The invitations to foreign races started coming in after he ran ‘ about 162 miles ’ in a 24-race in Chorley , and Zarei has made the most of them , often running ultra races consecutively and by doing so he has more than proved a point about his approach to running . |
| 4 | It now stands alone and has a baroque façade is plain also , while the east end is apsidal Byzantine dome and drum with beautiful mosaic decoration on a gold background . |
| 5 | Nutrition , based in the Netherlands , employs 2,300 and has a turnover of £190m . |
| 6 | The Council recognises this and seeks a 6.5% reduction target for that year . |
| 7 | Learning a language , as Halliday ( 1984 ) and Hymes ( 1971 ) amongst others have pointed out , involves more than acquiring a grammatical system that will generate well-formed sentences . |
| 8 | This performs better than pushing a dead middle axle . |
| 9 | ‘ Literacy means more than learning a code or writing a word . |
| 10 | Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ . |
| 11 | Even so , this lonely Old Man remains impressive and commands a degree of respect . |
| 12 | These cases suggest that when manufacture as the signified of the object , becomes reified as having a separate and particular connotation it is not the actual process of manufacture which is of importance , but the ability of the object to stand for a particular form of production and its attendant social relations . |
| 13 | It is only through difference , by which the same becomes other and produces a tissue of differences , that history could ever take place : for if full presence were possible , then there would be no difference , and therefore no time , space — or history . |
| 14 | Under the present system , if an Englishman becomes bankrupt but owns a chateau in France , his trustee in bankruptcy must either ask the English courts to request their French counterparts to recognise the bankruptcy or seek a separate bankruptcy order in France . |
| 15 | The ideology of psychologism also fits in with the need for motivating people for productive work , and at the same time makes possible and legitimates a fascination with mystery and magic . |
| 16 | In a singing community of his peers he comes alive and discovers a sense of membership which is denied him elsewhere : all the more reason to embrace the slightly devilish and glamorous identity which is thrown at you by ‘ them ’ and sing along , ‘ We are the famous football hooligans ! ’ |
| 17 | When I suggest that Glory was a clever way of doing a Vietnam film without doing a Vietnam film , he stops yawning and gets a little annoyed . |