Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preferring to carry only a light rifle , such as a .22 , and ammunition , but unburdened by other supplies , even water , they chase goats from about 7 am until noon , when they have to quit for the day Sometimes they will put down their guns and stalk a goat , leaping on it to deliver the final coup de grace with a knife . |
| 2 | Where glues are concerned , I , personally , would not scorn to wear both a belt and braces . |
| 3 | In October 1990 a network of Baptist Church planters was officially formed gathering around a hundred ministers and aiming to hold a first residential conference in 1991 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll want to catch quite an early train from Liverpool Street . |
| 5 | Perfectionist in all things , he declined to continue painting once a slight deterioration in eyesight precluded the extreme clarity he sought . |
| 6 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 7 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 8 | The balance sheet and P&L account provide quite a lot of information on the financial health of the company but it is in the nature of a snapshot of conditions at a particular moment in time . |
| 9 | The balance sheet and P&L account provide quite a lot of information on the financial health of the company but it is in the nature of a snapshot of conditions at a particular moment in time . |
| 10 | 10.7.6 In respect of the due exercise of any right or licence ( i ) confirmed or granted or ( ii ) agreed to be granted under the provisions of Clauses 10.7.2 , 10.7.3 and 10.7.4 , each Party ( i ) grants or ( ii ) agrees to grant respectively a licence under any intellectual property rights in respect of results and ( i ) grants or ( ii ) agrees to grant respectively to the extent reasonably necessary for such due exercise a licence under any background intellectual property right , and undertakes to procure like grants or agreements to grant from its Related companies . |
| 11 | In this article , I want to acknowledge openly a number of tensions that I experience , and which I suspect others may recognise . |
| 12 | The Committee on Safety of Medicines ( personal communication ) has received only a single report of visual disorder associated with chlorambucil — namely , corneal opacity — and the manufacturers ( Wellcome ) have only a single report of optic neuritis , occurring on day 1 of chlorambucil treatment and not resolving on withdrawal . |
| 13 | Is the Minister aware that 18 schools in the Cleveland authority area were built before 1914 and that in the current financial year Cleveland has received only a quarter of its capital allocation ? |
| 14 | She has received quite an unpleasant shock . ’ |
| 15 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 16 | Over the years Beverley has taught nearly a hundred people how to make monoclonal antibodies in their laboratories . |
| 17 | Associated American Artists has gathered together a representative group of this work in a show called ‘ Rufino Tamayo — seventeen years at the Mixografia workshop ’ . |
| 18 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 19 | As the HLA-A2.1 molecules on T2 cells appear to carry only a limited variety of peptides derived from signal sequences , our data suggest that the anti-HLA-A2.1 CTL clone recognizes such a signal sequence-derived peptide . |
| 20 | Much more closely associated with the state than was the case in the Christian churches that owed their allegiance to Rome , Russian Orthodoxy helped to promote both a more communitarian form of politics and a feeling that Russians were a ‘ special people ’ with a particular destiny to fulfil in terms of world civilisation . |
| 21 | Why , in Oxford , has it been left so far to the police , the voluntary sector and private sponsorship to try to cobble together a scheme ? |
| 22 | There are five degree programmes , designed to provide either a specialized or interdisciplinary pattern of study . |
| 23 | To complement this wonderful collection of textiles the Gordon Reece Gallery has amassed over a thousand old and rare examples of jewellery from many of the great Tribal craft traditions of the world . |
| 24 | C & w World has to pull together a huge number of companies under the umbrella of the parent group , including Hong Kong Telecom and an 80 per cent share of Mercury in the UK . |
| 25 | Any sane and workable approach to life obviously has to contain both an attitude to individuals and an attitude towards the whole . |
| 26 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 27 | A female emperor moth , in a cage in a wood , transmitting a perfume undetectable to our nostrils , has attracted over a hundred huge males from the surrounding countryside within three hours . |
| 28 | The village has attracted only a trickle of visitors . |
| 29 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 30 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |