Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | This adds up to a threat to the source of Japan 's post-war strength . |
| 32 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 33 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 34 | Although all of this adds up to a fairly persuasive case in favour of certain types of co-operative R&D in certain circumstances , the case is not strong enough to suggest that all types of ventures will have positive ( or even benign ) effects on social welfare . |
| 35 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
| 36 | The troops , expecting to be ‘ home by Christmas ’ after a few gallant cavalry charges , held an impressive open air church parade in the Recreation Field and in late August the town gave a lively send off to a detachment of the ‘ Kings Own ’ . |
| 37 | ‘ Is it harmful to come out of a temperature as high as 76 degrees after working twelve hours , into a cold atmosphere ? ’ |
| 38 | You know the old adage that , I mean one of the reasons is it 's so much easier to come up with a scandal , to come with a rats in the basement or something like that and intrigue people , than it is to come up with some , the positive angles . |
| 39 | Some animals have this honed down to a fine art . |
| 40 | The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment . |
| 41 | They are ideal for large breeds , or individuals which have a back ailment of any kind and may find it painful to curl up in a basket . |
| 42 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 43 | This spilled over to a fall in the reservation prices . |
| 44 | All of this added up to an ‘ inaccessible market ’ . |
| 45 | And this came about through a sequence of catastrophes , movements of people , and trade . |
| 46 | This came about in an equally haphazard fashion . |
| 47 | The answer to this came out of a completely different approach introduced by a British mathematician and physicist , Roger Penrose , in 1965 . |
| 48 | But this came out in a stumbling , heavy voice ; he still could hardly believe it all . |
| 49 | As they left the turn the French paddled off at a tangent and tried to run the Romanians into the landing pontoon in front of all the VIPs . |
| 50 | In keeping with their true natures , some look out for a dealer who has passed it , and beg him to sit it again , for them . |
| 51 | Darlington council 's town twinning officer , Michelle Le Neveu , approached a dairy wholesaler asking if milkmen would be willing to help out with a door to door collection . |
| 52 | Some predict up to a five per cent average rise by the end of the year . |
| 53 | And modern salinometers will automatically compensate for the temperature and pressure and do this conversion so you can get a direct read out from an electrical instrument of the salinity . |
| 54 | Yet the picture that all this conjures up of a thin red , white and blue line defending civilization and the British sense of ‘ fair play ’ against serried ranks of black barbarians is suddenly counterpointed by an even more arresting image — that of the police themselves who are frightening the local inhabitants of Brixton by whooping like red indians , and beating on their shields like Zulu warriors . |
| 55 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |
| 56 | ‘ I thumped one of them then another turned up with a gun . |
| 57 | This leads on to a major guideline for all consequences : |
| 58 | This leads on to a dramatic low and a severe craving for another dose of the stuff . |
| 59 | This leads on to a discussion about the way in which new occupations associated with the new technology are likely to emerge . |
| 60 | This leads on to a third aspect — the redistributive effect over a person 's lifetime , rather than just in the current period . |