Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The narrow High Street is easily blocked as traffic builds up behind the heavy goods vehicles trying to get through on a route avoiding the increased toll on the Severn Bridge . |
| 2 | Bozburun , in a deep and well sheltered inlet , is worth visiting to see the busy traditional boatyard , and a base to explore the many local day anchorages . |
| 3 | The peak year for French activity was 1377 when , like the Vikings before them , they used the Isle of Wight as a base to harry the whole south coast . |
| 4 | The exceptionals are thought to include a provision covering the potential loss of the management contract . |
| 5 | The Model Forms of Rent Review Clause contain a provision entitling the other party to pay the expert 's fees in full and then reclaim the balance from the non-paying party as a debt payable on demand . |
| 6 | upholding the validity of a provision enabling the floating charge holder to serve a notice of crystallisation on the company . |
| 7 | The sensation of amplified vibration used in conjunction with a sound-level meter and a chart to show the relative loudness of different sounds ( from a whisper to a jet aeroplane ) is a useful combination . |
| 8 | Often these prophets saw themselves as reformers , who had a vocation to transform the religious vision of their time . |
| 9 | On Thursday 23 May 1974 , little more than a week after Jinky had set out on his transatlantic crossing , the player was the focus of a controversial legal wrangle when a judge at Airdrie Sheriff Court postponed a trial involving the Celtic winger to allow him to prepare for Scotland 's forthcoming World Cup campaign in Germany . |
| 10 | This month we 're starting a trial to discover the best-tasting strawberries . |
| 11 | ‘ Ever seen a submarine get the full treatment when it 's done a patrol ? ’ |
| 12 | This new generation of NHS manager is , it seems , here to stay and brings with it a quality meter to measure our healthcare and a sledgehammer to dismantle the old order . |
| 13 | The cunning thief reached through a cat-flap to unlock the back door before putting the snib on the front door lock and ransacking the house . |
| 14 | It was similarly easy to convert the head-teacher 's office into a kitchen adjoining the side-entrance lobby . |
| 15 | A function returning the horizontal position of the cursor on the screen . |
| 16 | A function returning the vertical cursor position . |
| 17 | A function returning the square root of its argument . |
| 18 | A function giving the absolute value of its argument . |
| 19 | A function giving the base-10 logarithms of its argument . |
| 20 | A function giving the natural logarithm of its argument . |
| 21 | Arguing a case involves the following four stages : |
| 22 | The extent to which trade unions are disadvantaged by the rules developed by the judiciary is shown in a case involving the National Union of Teachers . |
| 23 | It had been decided in a case following the 1976 act that that right still existed . |
| 24 | We present a case illustrating the particular caution necessary in subjects at risk of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency . |
| 25 | It was a bit perplexing the first time I heard the chant though , because of the other associations that could be drawn from it ! |
| 26 | moving back a bit to get the bigger picture what 's going on |
| 27 | You may need to fiddle with the valves quite a bit to get the right balance between the different outlets . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been away so long I felt a bit like the new boy walking into the old school when I arrived at the studio for Carry On Columbus , ’ he admits . |
| 29 | The use of such a level avoids the syntactic processor from making incorrect syntactic judgements when dealing with idioms and provides an additional recognition stage . |
| 30 | When the problems started to emerge with the AGR series , the search began for a successor to keep the British nuclear industry in business . |