Example sentences of "move a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A computer error moved a decimal place one unit to the right . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The couple moved a mobile home onto their twenty acre smallholding at Awre after they bought the land four years ago . |
| 6 | A page behind the only fully-framed chair moved a long-shafted fan over his mistress 's head . |
| 7 | The bushes , you know , so I , I moved a little bit of it , it 's got . |
| 8 | One is ‘ historical ’ , where we want to know what particular motive moved a particular actor on a particular occasion . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 13 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | moved a whole delegation if it were n't en suite . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Variable-reluctance motors have two important advantages when the load must be moved a considerable distance , e. g. several revolutions of the motor . |
| 21 | Satellite surveillance is all very well , but it takes time to get information back and in that time a naval force can have moved a fair distance . |
| 22 | A visitor or resident may move a small table to suit themselves — it could mean a broken hip for another resident . |
| 23 | With the carbon-zinc battery the needle will move a small amount and hold there . |
| 24 | We hear the Sierra switch on — down the alley out of sight — and we all see the shotgun move a split second before he fires it . |
| 25 | I mean okay the brick might move a tiny bit . |
| 26 | Needless to say , on recordings which have a substantial musical output below 50Hz — the organ perhaps the prime example — the effect is felt as well as heard since the 103/4 can move a great deal of air . |
| 27 | Can I just move a slight amendment to the erm , |
| 28 | Then he said would I move a little bit to the right so that he could see me because the edges of the picture distort . |
| 29 | Right who 's got any well if you could just move a little bit closer . |
| 30 | If the earth spins on its axis , as Copernicus had it , then any point on the earth 's surface will move a considerable distance in a second . |