Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that girls may be given fancier names because this fits in with a traditionally feminine image while the common masculine-sounding names for boy babies , like Richard , David , James and Alexander , would ostensibly give a boy fewer problems than Tarquin or Marmaduke . |
| 2 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 3 | One way of putting this difference between the bounded nature of research and the comparatively unbounded nature of higher education is to say that , in research , the researcher starts off with a fairly hazy idea of what might emerge and ends with a precise formulation or conclusion , whereas in higher education , this is reversed . |
| 4 | The student starts off with a fairly definite hold on the world , built on reasonably stable concepts and ideas , but at the end of the course has grasped that very little of the intellectual world has enduring substance and that there are always more cognitive spectacles to put on . |
| 5 | The most welcome caller is not the one who rings up with a carefully arranged bouquet of words delivered ‘ at the double ’ ; it is the one who calls to enquire , to listen , and to sympathise when necessary , leaving the elderly person feeling warmed and cared for . |
| 6 | This adds up to a very substantial collection , and I hope before too long we may find another set with the Organ and Piano Concertos , along with Prêtre 's recordings of the Gloria and Stabat Mater ( the earlier one with Régine Crespin ) and the almost unknown Sept Responses des Ténèbres , a simply glorious choral and orchestral piece with Prêtre recorded in 1983 and which appeared on a Pathé Marconi LP in 1984 . |
| 7 | Although all of this adds up to a fairly persuasive case in favour of certain types of co-operative R&D in certain circumstances , the case is not strong enough to suggest that all types of ventures will have positive ( or even benign ) effects on social welfare . |
| 8 | If you ask me , that adds up to a highly questionable scenario . ’ |
| 9 | The frescoes by Tobias Stimmer date from the sixteenth century , and it all adds up to a quite wonderful example of late German Renaissance . |
| 10 | While most thoughts are still on London , RUNNING Magazine 's Publisher Nick Williams looks back on a very different kind of marathon at Lanzarote 's Club La Santa |
| 11 | Before my right hon. Friend passes on to a specifically Scottish aspect , I wish to raise a general point . |
| 12 | The Aeronca is very definitely a machine from which to appreciate the fun side of flying , as the countryside passes by in a very relaxed fashion . |
| 13 | The expense of necessary heating and drying is not only considerable , but is ultimately hopeless — it is not a tax which in any way augments a person 's living standards , but , like protection money , merely staves off for a little longer an absolute loss . |
| 14 | As the varnish dries , so the egg tempera closes up into a perfectly fine line . |
| 15 | … however worthy the original intention it is almost inevitable that one ends up with a pretty fair rag-bag and that a carefully drawn long title offers no real defence . |
| 16 | Try to avoid an approach which ends up with a very small amount of airbrake . |
| 17 | The danger in viewing the organisation as a purposeful entity is that one ends up with a highly abstract and artificial analysis . |
| 18 | One group of Ps ends up at a very similar position to this . |
| 19 | This ties in with a generally romantic view of sexual expression denying this to anyone with any degree of physical or mental impairment ( Strean , 1983 ) . |
| 20 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 21 | What I would like to think is is that we put together an annual report for our own purposes , and that goes out to a very limited distribution , as Trevor was suggesting . |
| 22 | Sam and Eric are captured by Jack and the whole thing turns out like a very gruesome game of Cowboys and Indians where Jack and his gang are painted like Indians losing their identity and are out to capture and kill Ralph . |
| 23 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 24 | The precious , vulnerable new ley gets neglected or misused and gradually tumbles down to a less demanding , less productive permanent pasture . |
| 25 | That stacks up to a quite well specified machine , and you 'll find file operations , particularly , slow on a 20MHz SX if you opt for the HPFS . |
| 26 | The eldest one could n't have children , and quarrels with her husband , and has gone dotty because she ca n't have children , and wanders around in a very odd coat all the time . |
| 27 | It 's hard to imagine anybody writing more artificially , but I hope you feel , as I do , there can hardly be a piece of poetry in which the distress of the poet and the feeling that he may be wasting his time comes through in a more anguished fashion . |
| 28 | In Kevin Billington 's production , Quartermaine 's Terms comes over as a deceptively sedate and profoundly funny play that is a serious pleasure to watch from start to finish . |
| 29 | This unsensitivity aside , though , George comes over as a pretty decent bloke who simply got fed up with his celebrity status . |
| 30 | This unsensitivity aside , though , George comes over as a pretty decent bloke who simply got fed up with his celebrity status . |