Example sentences of "[vb base] a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mock-learned apparatus — appendices , maps of Middle-Earth and indexes — suggest a sense of erudition amiably mixed with bonhomie and fun ; his no-nonsense Christianity a hunger for the spiritual and a yearning for roots . |
| 2 | One day the law may re-examine the place in our law of combination and of the ‘ chasm ’ between lawful and unlawful acts which exists in the case of an individual , but the latest judicial pronouncements suggest a retreat from liability rather than an advance towards a principle that the intentional infliction of harm without justification is actionable . |
| 3 | ‘ However , rural schools provide a kind of heterogeneity rarely found in urban or suburban settings — heterogeneity of social class . |
| 4 | Notice that the right shift truncates the result ; some computers provide a version of arithmetic right shift which adds to the right-hand bit position of the result the value of the last bit shifted out . |
| 5 | If there are any other Schnauzers like me out there , please send a photo to Dogs Today so I can see . |
| 6 | I mean we have dealings with solicitors for all sorts of things , asking for reports and we send a lot of notes away to have a lot of er medical opinion reports and they take ages to come back . |
| 7 | We want a sea of noise tomorrow , ’ said Francis . |
| 8 | They do not regard it as offensive to say they want a quality of life more than they want challenge and promotion . ’ |
| 9 | you want a drop of whisky then |
| 10 | Yeah , just leave that now , you want a drop of milk now do you Anthony ? |
| 11 | Now , if you contrast that with the protectionist case , we say , virtually in the whole of western Europe , Japan , erm , to a lesser extent America , but the main consuming areas for say a commodity like wheat right , they 're all self sufficient . |
| 12 | CHEMICALS which have been found in the River Clyde pose a threat to otters all over Britain , the World Wide Fund For Nature warned this week . |
| 13 | Place a set of wickets about ten feet from a second position from where a person is going to bowl a ball . |
| 14 | Heat the water in a pan on the stove and place a basin on top instead of the lid . |
| 15 | ‘ Say an Act of Contrition now , and I 'll give you absolution . ’ |
| 16 | Morrissey had inspired speculation by his conspicuous non-attendance at the band 's post-Albert Hall lig a couple of weeks previously . |
| 17 | But the parties ' replies reveal a difference in emphasis rather than polarity : the green-is-moreprofitable school consisted of all but one of the Labour MPs and two-thirds of the Conservatives . |
| 18 | information , er , they did it on erm , one of the programmes they actually put a bucket of water actually on the equator , I do n't know if you saw it . |
| 19 | But they do , there 's , cos they put a charge on orders below so much . |
| 20 | Put a tape in Paulie just in get a tape quick . |
| 21 | You just put a lick of paint again , wo your tiling 's awful int it ? |
| 22 | If you put a spot of light right in the centre of this cell 's receptive field you get the response shown in the second column : when the spot goes on ( see stimulus trace at the bottom ) you get a burst of impulses , so it is called an ‘ on-centre unit ’ . |
| 23 | There will be those who seek schools serving particular religious denominations and those who seek a school near granny so that mum can go back to work . |
| 24 | The thought makes me scared , but I still feel relief when the scales show a couple of pounds less . |
| 25 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was showing off a prototype workstation built around the DEC Alpha AXP RISC and running Microsoft Corp Windows NT at the Hannover CeBit show a couple of weeks ago . |
| 26 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was showing off a prototype workstation built around the DEC Alpha AXP RISC and running Microsoft Windows NT at the Hannover CeBit show a couple of weeks ago . |
| 27 | A working prototype of DEC 's Alpha-based RISC PC was spotted in Cannes , France , at the Dexpo Europe show a couple of weeks ago : it included a 150MHz CPU and was being touted at up to 250 MIPS . |
| 28 | Remote sensing and image analysis support a variety of programmes both overseas ( mainly funded by ODA ) and in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | It 's possible I could s if I walk from Newcastle catch a bus to Newcastle then walk from Newcastle . |
| 30 | Cut a length of tape approximately 8cm ( 3in ) longer than the finished width of the curtain . |