Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of strings which the algorithm keeps may range up to a few thousand , and each bit string may be a few hundred long . |
| 2 | As Herman explains , ‘ [ c ] ollective action may result from structural ties between firms that integrate their interest and facilitate coordination between them — such as a common ownership interest — or it may arise out of a recognized common interest or mutual business interdependence with minimal personal contact and communications among the companies and their officials . |
| 3 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 4 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 5 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 6 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , manufacturers are still not pushing the business benefits of technology to any great extent — some 80% of those questioned said that bidding vendors had never formally evaluated what they should invest in from a strategic point of view . |
| 8 | When all the contributions are joined together we should finish up with a representative item using a piece of apparatus . |
| 9 | If it lived up to its name , she thought , it should stick out like a sore thumb among the warm , yellowish stone of the other buildings . |
| 10 | The second type of mutation is at Phe65 , the side chain that must rotate out of a hydrophobic pocket in the apoprotein to allow SAM to bind . |
| 11 | Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores . |
| 12 | With the Tories moving on to more radical positions , and the Labour Party now much more centrist , logic seemed to dictate that this kind of Alliance supporter should move back to a Social Democratic outlook identical with that of old Gaitskellites . |
| 13 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 14 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |
| 15 | Well it 's a question of balance I I the forty one thousand figure in my view should come down by a few thousand to reflect constraints in specific areas , I wo n't go into that now cos it 's a separate discussion later on . |
| 16 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 17 | ‘ We must get back to a rigid pattern , with players in the right holes . |
| 18 | ‘ Everyone must put up with a certain amount of discomfort from neighbours ’ . |
| 19 | Before this can be put into effect however , the Society must raise $110,000 just to keep its library open until 1 June , and must come up with an additional $2.5 million to cover a bare-boned operation from June 1993 to June 1994 . |
| 20 | He told the Governor that ‘ Rance must come out with a new policy , with proposals that go beyond the White paper [ of May 1945 ] . |
| 21 | They 're both the same angle for a start , because we 've got an isosceles triangle , and forty five plus two X must add up to a hundred and eighty . |
| 22 | In February , you must trim back to a fat bud . |
| 23 | America is trillions of pounds in debt , economic growth is slow at best around the world , the massive defence industry must wake up to a new post-Cold War world and the nation 's infrastructure is in deep disrepair . |
| 24 | The no boundary proposal for the universe predicts the existence of a well-defined thermodynamic arrow of time because the universe must start off in a smooth and ordered state . |
| 25 | If you are already physically active , then you should start out with a brisk , vigorous walk for 20 minutes , stretching yourself as you walk . |
| 26 | And , needless now perhaps to say , such situations should mount up on a progressive scale so that they make an ongoing story . |
| 27 | His country still insist he must turn out in an African Nations Cup qualifier against South Africa rather than the televised curtain-raiser at the City ground . |
| 28 | Beauty is often the object of envy by a plain person , yet people whose prettiness as children captivated the adults around them may grow up with a severe disadvantage . |
| 29 | If you decide to design your own lace pattern , do remember that you must transfer to both left and right rather than in just one direction or you may finish up with a definite bias in your knitting . |
| 30 | The above example also shows how reported speech may carry over into a second sentence without any reinforcing signal . |