Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard Gallacher seemed quite unconcerned , however , and it became clear why during a press conference held in Switzerland . |
| 2 | The local army base , a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower , is pressed right up against a primary school . |
| 3 | In the present case we shall take the view that the perception of two distinct types of phrase here can be explained rather simply by a divergence of relation at the intensional level . |
| 4 | But it fits less well with a situation in which the ‘ rules ’ under which the negotiation takes place are regularly changed to the extent that the nature of the ‘ game ’ may itself have been changed . |
| 5 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 6 | John Gorman says … he 's happy but in some ways disappointed that they 've had to wait so long for a win … it 's been hard week after week … but they 've shown great character and the fans have been very supportive |
| 7 | He pressed on and on , resting only briefly on a rock outcrop before continuing . |
| 8 | It was perhaps the miracle of the decade that BR was allowed to invest so heavily in a new generation of multiple units . |
| 9 | These systems use two endocardial defibrillator coils placed transvenously either as a single lead ( 12F ) or two separate leads . |
| 10 | Enough to remind her of the consequences of submitting so easily to a man who despised her . |
| 11 | Generally , it is best to send out a strong opener , that is someone who can be relied upon to go all out for a victory . |
| 12 | She came back to the north with him after that and they lived together again for a time . |
| 13 | Since it is made from local material , it exactly matches its surroundings and it fits so neatly with a bevelled edge that it is almost impossible to detect it . |
| 14 | He felt only sorry for him and sure that , if they could stay alone together for a while , Fiver would come round to an easier state of mind . |
| 15 | the device remained popular for a century after its invention , finding particular favour in France , where , according to one account , it sold so quickly at a fair in Paris that the stallholder was hustled out of town by the young men of the city who saw their favourite quarry rapidly being locked away . |
| 16 | Her long black hair , which was always tied back in a knot at the nape of her neck , would spring constantly outwards in a curly disarray whenever she was suddenly excited . |
| 17 | How far would Rock Hudson have got if his true proclivities , hidden so long by a succession of girlfriends provided by the studios , had been known ? |
| 18 | A series of bipartite agreements , each allocating a particular territory to a retailer would be treated entirely differently from a ( registrable ) multipartite agreement regarding exclusivity , though it may have the same effect . |
| 19 | Prick all over with a fork . |
| 20 | A door crashed somewhere up beyond a curtain wall , and the voices of women carried like a peal of bells — melodious , chiming upon one another — into the well of the gallery immediately above . |
| 21 | M103 is in the same × 20 field with Delta , but is not at all easy to identify , and looks rather more like a chance aggregation of stars . |
| 22 | This manoeuvre looks rather more like a tail-spin . |
| 23 | A water vole swam vigorously across from a little island , its round face and bright eyes showing above the water . |
| 24 | Two classes of category were identified : the first consisted of the 41 types occurring most frequently in a window of + or - 2 word positions , to capture those words in close grammatical construction with the node . |
| 25 | The second domain-specific method ( DS2 ) resembles the first in that 20 of its 81 categories were one or two-word sequences occurring most frequently in a window of + or - 1 and 2 word positions , respectively . |
| 26 | It may be junk , but it looks all right in a garden . |
| 27 | To be able to concentrate so fully on a race needs good board handling skills , since you should n't have to think about how to sail the board fast . |
| 28 | It 's the largest subject created so far by a foundry which specialises in works of art by sculptors from Britain and Europe . |
| 29 | It 's the largest subject created so far by a foundry which specialises in works of art by sculptors from Britain and Europe . |
| 30 | As the research in intelligent knowledge-based systems has progressed steadily over the past decade , it has become increasingly clear that there are classes of complex problems which can not be solved by a single system in isolation ; they require several systems to work together interactively in a co- operative framework . |