Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunsbury Hill Country Park , to the south west of the town centre , includes an historic Iron Age camp , extensive walks , and train rides along an old ironstone railway . |
| 2 | [ Holds up an idealised portrait of Jesus with blond hair and blue eyes . ] |
| 3 | It will be a choice of ends , for example , even if forgotten a moment later , when he chokes back an erupting laugh at a slip by an important man , the choice being between a momentary and a long-term goal , the latter of which the other man could jeopardize . |
| 4 | A short distance up the road from the Hill Inn , a bridleway turns off to the right and , with Ingleborough looming directly in front , passes along an easy terrace to reach a gate in a cross-wall after half a mile . |
| 5 | Now in her case we put her on two fifties but that i uses up an awful lot of skin and it 's a real hassle , so er |
| 6 | ‘ … originally the ego includes everything , later it separates off an external world from itself ’ . |
| 7 | The infant Cornelia , C.Z. 's daughter , hangs over an eighteenth-century chair ( above ) . |
| 8 | In the Soviet view it marks off an entire millennium of ‘ feudalism ’ from the capitalist phase which it inaugurated . |
| 9 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 10 | 1.16 Much has been written on ‘ English across the curriculum ’ , a phrase which , for some , conjures up an unacceptable vision of English reduced to a service subject , and for others an equally unacceptable vision of subject specialists burdened with responsibilities that should rightly be carried by teachers of English . |
| 11 | But such an argument implicitly rules out an important alternative ; for it discounts the idea that the attempt to give an a priori defence of individualism may be mistaken . |
| 12 | Throwing some levers normally cuts out an electric force field , or jumping onto a steel plate hurls Zack into the air and over an obstruction . |
| 13 | Former hack brews up an angelic lifestyle |
| 14 | First , over the initial half of the game , the human builds up an overwhelming position . |
| 15 | The beauty of working on location is that so much is experienced , there is the constant interaction with the people and environment , and a constant stream of information filters into the subconscious and builds up an intuitive feeling and empathy for the country , culture and language , which ultimately influenced my drawings . |
| 16 | Through this ‘ echolocation' ’ system a dolphin builds up an acoustic picture of its surroundings , and can hunt its prey over a much greater distance than the limits of visibility in the water . |
| 17 | The relationship between printer and buyer is then strengthened if , over time , the printer builds up an excellent knowledge of the customer 's business . |
| 18 | A day 's casual work takes on an extra meaning . |
| 19 | Under water , the world of sound signalling takes on an additional significance since sound in water travels much further than light , moving a great deal faster than it does in air . |
| 20 | Thus the cut of a lapel , appearing as a bold and larger-than-life motif takes on an intensified presence , becoming a cypher for the stylistic shifts of fashion that imperceptibly determine our appearance and our reading of the appearance of others rather than ( as Brilliant 's premise would indicate ) a sign for the corporeal presence of the body which is not seen . |
| 21 | Obviously , when sport offers itself as one of the few accessible routes away from deprivation , as it was to the early slaves , it takes on an attractive quality . |
| 22 | Quite early there came the contradiction that anyone who takes on an extreme diet must meet . |
| 23 | It is as a consequence of the choices facing countries which are in this intermediate category that the postmodernist organizational debate takes on an important policy dimension . |
| 24 | There is also in it the idea of fusing the I and Thou together so that the usual dualism ends and the relationship takes on an independent existence . |
| 25 | This takes on an added significance when it is remembered that geriatrics and the terminally ill are regarded as the failures of the health service and are often consigned to the young and inexperienced who , as one doctor recently put it , ‘ do strive very officiously to keep people alive because they are interested scientifically and they want to use every method they can as part of their training ’ . |
| 26 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |
| 27 | Since the acquisition of premises ( other than where the entrepreneur purchases the premises as a going concern and merely takes over an existing catering enterprise ) normally involves at least a change of use and often the development of the premises , planning permission is required . |
| 28 | Being at the other end of an extremely hostile divorce suit can be a very nasty experience — especially when your expartner cranks up an aggressive lawyer to screw you . |
| 29 | But the BBC-commissioned Anniversary keeps up an exhilarating flow of counterpoint , flung around from one instrument to another , rich in incident and in side issues but , for all the pace , radiating a quiet air of serenity and sureness . |
| 30 | One anthology for older children stands out : Terry Jones keeps up an unflagging pace of invention in his Fantastic Stories ( Pavilion Pounds 12.99 ) — a rich mix of magic and nonsense , illustrated with usual panache by Michael Foreman . |