Example sentences of "an [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | teaching approaches which maintained an often slavish adherence to the textbook , reliance on narrow questions often requiring monosyllabic answers , an inability to follow up and extend pupils ' answers and an over prescriptive method whereby the teacher was able to remain within a constricted , safe pattern of work . |
| 2 | I 've only got quarter an hour to go down and have a smoke . |
| 3 | You started off at the beginning of your beat — set out on the north side of Lime Street — took a quarter of an hour to walk round and try all the locks . |
| 4 | Well no because it 'll tha it does n't work like that it takes about cos it 's cold it 's gon na take about an hour to warm up and that wo n't come on that 'll just cu keep coming on and off all the time till it 's hottened up . |
| 5 | First , their continuous , linear nature provides plants and animals with an opportunity to move up and down them . |
| 6 | The Minister has an opportunity to stand up and be counted by the travelling , suffering public in Scotland . |
| 7 | Germain Viatte : This is an opportunity to stand back and take stock . |
| 8 | The group was formed by the concerted actions of a few individuals in the area of the Yellow Creek , near Middlesboro , Kentucky in an attempt to clean up and prevent further pollution in their local stream which has been contaminated by a local tannery sending the untreated waste from its chemical processing into the sewage treatment plant of the city of Middlesboro . |
| 9 | Seizing the opportunity at the right moment , he will link together a series of strikes , probably involving kicks , in an attempt to break through and score points . |
| 10 | Beejay suspects that I have spotted an alternative to misbehave over and can not resist a sideways look . |
| 11 | ‘ Arthur got an electrician to come in and do it during the week . ’ |
| 12 | Erm but we do need an approval to go out and for quotations and sorry tenders on this , on this work , which is actually urgent . |
| 13 | THE first students at Aquinas College , Stockport , who have studied on a BTEC course , had an assignment to set up and run a branch of the Yorkshire Bank in college . |
| 14 | I had a phone call from somebody who was obviously be doing exactly the same thing , and he actually just was booking an appointment to come in and see me . |
| 15 | Robbie had to fight down an impulse to reach out and run her fingers over the dark mat . |
| 16 | Daniel suppressed fairly easily an impulse to get up and open the door for him . |
| 17 | He felt an urge to reach out and rescue some of the sheets of paper on which he imagined he could see writing , but the heat was extreme . |
| 18 | You must end his solo visits now and make an effort to get out and build your romantic life outside your family circle . |
| 19 | If he can actually make an effort to write in and persecute gays and ‘ ethnics ’ , then it is he who is spreading a terrible disease and ‘ twisting young kids ’ minds ’ . |
| 20 | If you get a firm that 's doing big removals , inside the cost of that is the cost of an estimator to go around and look at half the jobs he 's not going to get . |
| 21 | an ability to reflect on and talk about the writing process . |
| 22 | Produce pieces of writing in which there is a rudimentary attempt to present simple subject matter in a structured way , eg by means of a title and paragraphs or verses ; in which sentence punctuation ( capital letters , full stops , question marks and exclamation marks ) is generally accurately used ; and in which there is some evidence of an ability to set out and punctuate any direct speech in a way that makes meaning clear to the reader . |
| 23 | The new editor shares with the retiring one a proper reverence for the game , balanced by an ability to stand back and view it with a perspective born of experience of other important things in life . |
| 24 | Flushes of erotic feeling engulfed her , as he took an eternity to seek out and tease her dainty clitoris . |
| 25 | One clearly libidinous writer gives thanks for my providing him with a far from platitudinous substitute for an invitation to come up and look at etchings . |