Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anya surreptitiously scratches a small reddish patch on her wrist . |
| 2 | ‘ Nobody loves a sore loser , Gidget . ’ |
| 3 | Some of the greatest ever test series have included the Springboks — nobody loves a free-flowing , fast game more than the South Africans . |
| 4 | Slacker , a term denoting a Twentysomething who wants no responsibility and loves a good time , was a major US cult hit last year for director Richard Linklater — and deservedly so . |
| 5 | Ah , the Squire loves a young tit-bit . |
| 6 | One of these classes loves a great musical treat , that is , a powerful sound ; to that end they play with a rich texture , extremely fast , study the most difficult and the fastest octaves . |
| 7 | He was hatched and hand reared at Birdland in Bourton on the Water , by penguin keeper Maureen Hewitt , who says that the Harry still feels a bit insecure about being with adult penguins and loves a reassuring hug . |
| 8 | This is the story of a little girl named Fern , who loves a little pig named Wilbur , and Wilbur 's friend Charlotte a beautiful grey spider , Templeton the gluttonous rat and the Zuckerman family . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish they 'd move off , ’ Artemis confessed , ‘ before Hullabaloo causes a real hullabaloo . ’ |
| 10 | On shrinkable soils , such as clay , this continual extraction of water , followed by the absorption of further supplies from rainfalls , causes a certain amount of movement in the surrounding ground . |
| 11 | Taking a long-distance call still causes a certain turbulence here . |
| 12 | During early 1990 $297m worth of securities were stolen from a City messenger and whilst a general alert went out should any unusual presentations for payment be made at maturity to minimise the risk of loss , it is nevertheless true that this kind of occurrence causes a certain difficulty due to the fact that invariably the instruments in question are bearer instruments . |
| 13 | This causes a sharp change in leaf orientation from mainly horizontal to mainly vertical . |
| 14 | of the substance venial alanine it , the level rises up in the blood , it 's a bit like overfilling a jug , if you have a quarter pint jug and you have a pint of milk , when you get to the top you do n't stop pouring , it spills out the edge and in the body it actually goes into the body tissues , nowhere else to go and it causes a devastating result , it causes abnormal mental development , it causes gross retardation . |
| 15 | One answer is to use a finer grid to achieve finer detail ( Walsh et al. 1987 ) , but this causes a corresponding increase in the size of the raster database . |
| 16 | Possibly the occasional spurious light ray causes a corresponding bad reading whose error is averaged out . |
| 17 | Even if the escaping water flows into a carbide factory and thereby generates gas which causes a tremendous explosion it is unlikely that much will be achieved by seeking to draw distinctions between what is natural and foreseeable . |
| 18 | So it is , say I in my simplistic fashion , that the plain , screaming absurdity of the statement that trade-union action causes a general rise in wages and prices escapes scrutiny . |
| 19 | More research will be needed into the problem which causes a progressive degeneration of the elephant 's trunk which in turn means problems with feeding and drinking . |
| 20 | It immediately causes a stark image which was to be the main theme of the poem . |
| 21 | ‘ If you are delayed , for whatever reason , from doing the above , then it causes a knock-on delay throughout the whole system . |
| 22 | What is more or less manageable on an average wage , like paying the TV licence or buying shoes , causes a major cash flow crisis when you 're living on supplementary benefit . |
| 23 | This , however , causes a major complication . |
| 24 | What sometimes causes a little confusion to strangers is the fact that virtually the same region often goes under other names . |
| 25 | In urban areas field officers are well aware that heavy rain causes a substantial run-off of solids from buildings and roads into the nearest stream ; those in mining areas know all about run-off from colliery tips in wet weather . |
| 26 | The old story about the Roman legionaries using nettles to keep themselves warm on night duty in the cold northern province that was Britain may be apocryphal , but there is no doubt that the sting resulting from the touch of a nettle leaf causes a burning sensation . |
| 27 | It causes a flu-like illness with high fever and swollen lymph nodes . |
| 28 | The act of charging any battery causes a chemical reaction inside the cell , restoring battery voltage and capacity , with excess energy being dissipated as heat . |
| 29 | New evidence also proves that it causes a chemical reaction in the skin , attacking and destroying collagen and elastin — which keep skin supple — and so hastening signs of ageing . |
| 30 | This deposited material is mainly removed by the waves so that at night , when the algae emit carbon dioxide , the ensuing greater acidity of the sea water causes a chemical attack on the rock itself and not merely the redissolving of the finely divided material precipitated during the day . |