Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb -s] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spectacle of young people deferring to others and flagrantly performing small selfless acts of charity in the local area leaves a very bad taste in the mouth and gives an entirely distorted view of the standards which obtain at this school . |
| 2 | Another is from the English department and makes a fairly predictable case for enhancing the fiction provision in order to " encourage the reading habit and to extend reading for pleasure … " |
| 3 | Delta is good for the South and South-west and has a more interesting selection of commuter airlines . |
| 4 | Regnié is the newest of the Beaujolais crus and has a very appealing fresh style . |
| 5 | But I really like the bass ; it feels as solid as a rock and represents a more worthwhile investment for not a lot more money . |
| 6 | It can be laced with herbs or garlic and has a rather sour flavour — butter or cream are sometimes worked into the cheese to give a more rounded taste . |
| 7 | Tennyson would have frequented this lane in his youth for he liked to visit the Woodman 's cottage which nestles beside a wood and has an astonishingly colourful cottage garden . |
| 8 | Suspension noise is well contained , too , and while there 's a little more tyre and wind noise than we would have expected , the Safrane still shines in this category and makes a particularly quiet and refined motorway cruiser . |
| 9 | This contrast was used by Petipa to great advantage and demands a very musical dancer to display his brilliant choreography in Raymonda . |
| 10 | This spacious house was built at the turn of the century of Aberdeen granite and has a most unusual roof structure which incorporates a domed tower — the tower bedroom below is very popular with guests . |
| 11 | Because the day unit concentrates on rehabilitation and has a fairly fast turnover none of the eight people who come to talk over tea or coffee has a relative attending the day hospital at the moment . |
| 12 | It is closely related to peat and has a relatively low carbon content and high moisture content . |
| 13 | The castle is open to the public on payment of an admission charge and has a most interesting interior with rooms beautifully furnished in medieval style . |
| 14 | Elaine Smith was very warm and moving as Josie Riley who at thirty-eight with the kids grown is all energy for the community and conceives a very requited fancy for Bazz Blacker , the well-meaning social worker downstairs . |
| 15 | Sometimes it is argued that this requires a form of discourse which breaks with principles of narrative continuity and follows a purely analytic order of exposition , albeit one which remains open ended and exploratory . |
| 16 | ‘ The self-consciousness allows [ the performer ] the pleasure of exhibitionism [ while their ] blatant self-display releases them from guilt and invites a similarly shameless gaze from the spectator , whose participation is implicit throughout , ’ James writes . |
| 17 | As we watch , the Commando stops , springs to attention facing the direction of the the Brigadier and gives a very smart salute ; he obviously recognised the one and only Mills Roberts ' commanding voice . |
| 18 | The latter contains grapefruit extract which maintains an acid pH on the skin 's surface and has a mildly astringent effect on open pores . |
| 19 | Oil polishing is a lengthy and strenuous process which brings out the beauty of the wood like no other finish and imparts a most durable , dull sheen . |
| 20 | She lives with her father and leads a very quiet life . |
| 21 | This paper is an evening paper and has a very high readership . |
| 22 | A kick is stronger than a punch and has a much greater reach . |
| 23 | You think you know a girl for six months and then she has a baby and becomes a completely different person . |
| 24 | For the Moon C is not very different from that of a homogeneous sphere and indicates a very slight overall increase of density with depth . |
| 25 | This is called full indexing and provides a very rapid means of locating any given record . |
| 26 | This well furnished three-star hotel is close to the lake and has a pleasantly traditional air . |
| 27 | Such an in-depth analysis of last season 's loss of form obviously gives me food for thought and deserves a similarly constructive reply . |
| 28 | It 's important to apply the patina in an open space , because it acts on the copper and produces a most objectionable odour . |
| 29 | The heart decreases in size and assumes a more vertical position , due to a loss of pericardial fat , reduced left ventricular mass , and decreased blood volume . |
| 30 | She stands before the mirror , looking straight through her own reflection , scowls at the glass and blows a decidedly twentieth-century raspberry straight at me . |