Example sentences of "move a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On third Reading , he moved a second amendment to make racially discriminatory behaviour by the police a specific disciplinary offence . |
| 2 | Repairs to the Cages affected by the falling branch were completed and the Zoo 's formal admission of defeat came when they moved a Chilean eagle into the golden eagle 's old cage . |
| 3 | A computer error moved a decimal place one unit to the right . |
| 4 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 5 | There is also much evidence from a variety of sources that the labouring poor moved a great deal in search of employment , if usually not over very great distances . |
| 6 | The couple moved a mobile home onto their twenty acre smallholding at Awre after they bought the land four years ago . |
| 7 | A page behind the only fully-framed chair moved a long-shafted fan over his mistress 's head . |
| 8 | Jenny and Antony moved a few inches further apart , then giggled at each other because of the involuntary movement . |
| 9 | We did so , heaving and pushing until the bed moved a few inches and I saw the slight scorch mark on the stone floor beneath . |
| 10 | Dr Ali moved a few paces away from him . |
| 11 | She now moved a few steps backwards and sat down again , straightening out one leg and rubbing it as she did so . |
| 12 | Disconcertingly , April muttered something incomprehensible and moved a few steps away from them . |
| 13 | The bushes , you know , so I , I moved a little bit of it , it 's got . |
| 14 | One is ‘ historical ’ , where we want to know what particular motive moved a particular actor on a particular occasion . |
| 15 | The firs Chiswick Public Library was established in 1890 , in Bourne Place , and moved a short distance , eight years later , to larger premises in Dukes Avenue , which were subsequently enlarged . |
| 16 | In the following year , Ede moved an amended Commons motion : |
| 17 | In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 20 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
| 21 | Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ? |
| 22 | But the plain fact is , and genuinely I mean this , er , er , erm , if it were as simple working across the boundaries between yourselves and the Health Authority , between yourselves and the private sector , with the voluntary sector , and the great army of unpaid helpers if it was that simple , erm , then we would have moved a long way along that line towards implementation of a humane and caring care in the community twenty years ago , when these debates first started . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But when you 've moved a five-bedroomed house which has got a grand piano in it as well , and you 're about twenty to thirty foot at the back and all you can see is furniture furniture furniture furniture furniture , you can imagine as you go on you 're thinking God will we ever get to this ? |
| 25 | Now the exercise has moved a further step forward , with yarn ranges presented to knitwear manufacturers and retailers . |
| 26 | moved a whole delegation if it were n't en suite . |
| 27 | After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay . |
| 28 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 29 | If at any point you come into contact with it you lose a life immediately and are moved a few steps back . |
| 30 | The defendant had moved a few weeks before to another address in the same town , but this fact was not discovered at the time . |