Example sentences of "[vb -s] move a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole . |
| 2 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 3 | In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected . |
| 4 | Now the exercise has moved a further step forward , with yarn ranges presented to knitwear manufacturers and retailers . |
| 5 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
| 6 | This argument is reversed when the load has to move a large distance , because a high operating speed is then required . |
| 7 | Bus company management claim that any offer below £3.7m makes moving a financial impossibility . |