Example sentences of "[adv prt] an [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Players do not like setting down an instrument that has just become nicely warmed up , and taking up a cold one , unless there is a very good reason for it . |
| 2 | By the time of his death in 1227 , Genghiz ruled over an empire that stretched from Persia across to China . |
| 3 | Selling off an organisation that has n't made a profit for 40 years always looked like being the toughest possible test of the privatisers ' skills , and recent developments are not making things any easier |
| 4 | They watched their mum making suet dumplings for the stew which , in the iron cauldron on the hob above the glowing range fire , was already giving off an aroma that was a delight to anyone 's nose on a winter evening . |
| 5 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 6 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 7 | One of their sections had gone hog barmy and set up an operation that turned into a shoot-out in a friendly country with an apparently innocent citizen getting killed . |
| 8 | It 's better to admit that you do n't know and then go away to find out the answer , than to make up an answer that is not true ! |
| 9 | This theme has been clouded by different and even contradictory ideas , such as a stimulus package and an investment tax-credit to pep up an economy that will probably grow by 3% this year . |
| 10 | And it has enabled the Met to build up an institution that makes the arts splendidly accessible to the general public , without it indulging in crass commercialisation . |
| 11 | By exempting pension funds and unit trusts from income tax on trading profits from futures and options dealings , he has managed to clear up an uncertainty that has kept many investing institutions shy of London 's derivatives markets . |
| 12 | The unit , whose vice president of technology sales is Chet Silvestri , a recent emigre from Mips Technologies Inc , is setting up an infrastructure that will eventually be able to offer customers early access to Sun 's future microprocessor technology : the specifications , chip development and first tape-outs . |
| 13 | The unit , whose vice-president of technology sales is Chet Silvestri , a recent emigre from MIPS Technologies Inc , is setting up an infrastructure that will eventually be able to offer customers early access to Sun 's future microprocessor technology : the specifications , chip development and first tape-outs . |
| 14 | Here her voice fell lower , taking on an edge that frightened the listening woman . |
| 15 | The two sides , however , did instruct their negotiators at Geneva to ‘ work out an agreement that would commit the sides to observe the ABM treaty , as signed in 1972 ’ , and to devise measures which would help to ‘ ensure a predictability in the development of the US-Soviet strategic relationship under conditions of strategic stability , to reduce the risk of nuclear war ’ . |
| 16 | One of the best-known original London rap crews finally puts out an LP that is harder than the rest . |
| 17 | He then requested flares for landing and then put out an SOS that they were on fire . |
| 18 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |