Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further south , along the banks of the Yellow River at Lanzhou , there are more communities : also in Yunnan province and in the balmy , almost Mediterranean city of Canton which lies only two and a half hours from Hong Kong on the banks of the Pearl River . |
| 2 | There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack , involving a personal explanation . |
| 3 | A well-stocked medium sized lunch or breakfast plate looks more satisfying than a large dinner plate that is only half-filled . |
| 4 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 5 | There is no attempt to weight the votes — a vote on whether the marigold should be the national flower counts as much as a vote on an arms limitation treaty . |
| 6 | Standing beside the water tank , on top of the caravan 's portable step , Pa looks as tall as a Zulu in his red stole ( brown , for me ) with the black umbrella held over his head at full stretch by Ma who is standing behind in the mud and wet with a white towel draped over her arm and her hair flat and all dark with water . |
| 7 | But Paula , dressed in light grey leggings , sweatshirt and a blue denim jacket , looks as cool as a cucumber . |
| 8 | He looks as innocent as a lamb standing before me . |
| 9 | Speaking of spankers , what do you think a woman feels like who 's been born stumpy and fat and who looks as plain as a pikestaff , like that little one we bumped into back there . |
| 10 | At the end of the avenue , the village of Cawdor looks as kempt as a pinafore . |
| 11 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |
| 12 | Do you ever watch the weather forecast and it says especially last or a few months ago say it 'll be minus three tonight ? |
| 13 | Musically this is very nearly correct , but not one recording includes so much as a single word of Gilbert 's spoken dialogue . |
| 14 | He told Richardson that a Dutch gentleman had given him Frageria chiloensis , a native strawberry from the Spanish West Indies , but although Miller had not yet seen the fruit he quoted A. F. Frézier who ‘ in his Voyages says it grows as big as a pullet 's egg … a great rarity ’ . |
| 15 | A flimsy paper-bag costs as much as a Chinese pound of beansprouts . |
| 16 | And meanwhile we 'll keep going you know and er and do what we have to do which is to make sure that when they get dow when they get round to that table sitting down that well certainly the the quarry men are not gon na be hungry if if you know what I mean I mean they they gon na sit there with full bellies in a sense that they 're not gon na be starved back and I mean th that sounds rather dramatic and a cliched but I mean when you 're living on the bread line and expecting money from week to week I mean that 's what it 's all about is n't it you know and and the food parcel . |
| 17 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 18 | This could mean Eleanor gets as much as a million pounds . |
| 19 | You know , Harry , I get the impression he takes far more than a professional interest in Alice . |
| 20 | I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise . |
| 21 | The battery takes about four and a half hours to charge . |
| 22 | Whether the idea survives as more than a fad remains to be seen . |
| 23 | The initial , almost instantaneous , elongation produced by the application of the tensile stress is inversely proportional to the rigidity or modulus of the material , i.e. an elastomer with a low modulus stretches considerably more than a material in the glassy state with a high modulus . |
| 24 | That conclusion in a way seems rather obvious and a matter of common sense . |
| 25 | As the original film revolved around Tom Cruise 's driving exploits ( as well as the usual ‘ heartbreaking ’ love story ) it seems only logical that a racing game would be the end product of a computer conversion . |
| 26 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 27 | Reading through Robert Green 's trade card it seems highly unlikely that a client would want to purchase outright such items as the velvet pall , the room hangings , the large silvered candlesticks and sconces , or the feathers and cloaks , for these objects would be of little or no use to the purchaser once the funeral had taken place . |
| 28 | A straight back , sloping downwards , seems more comfortable than a curved back . |
| 29 | To the insensitive , theological talk seems as redundant as a prescription to a man who thinks he is well or a recipe to a man who is overfed or another cheque to a billionaire . |
| 30 | It seems as improbable as a foodless meal ! |