Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was chronically frustrated by the city 's killing of time : all those coffees and slow pints , all that hanging about for other people . |
| 2 | How much of that goes back into Tory funds , through the businesses , shops , the places you 're staying ? |
| 3 | You have to be in control on the roads , and you ca n't do that ambling along with loose reins . |
| 4 | Its cause is uncertain — it is also found even if we do not eat then — but it means that it is often possible to catch up on lost sleep by taking a nap at this time . |
| 5 | Oulton 's paintings may serve as a reminder that each looks out from different eyes with one 's own conception of what is real , thus the artist leads us to question the truth of our own vision . |
| 6 | Winnicott traces out how from infancy onwards individuals learn to make a space between themselves and others , and yet avoid total separation by ‘ the filling in of the potential space with creative living , with the use of symbols , and with all that adds up to cultural life ’ ( Winnicott , 1971 ) . |
| 7 | The second example of inspection is that carried out by local authority inspectors . |
| 8 | The recording of fades to mark the beginning and end of a sequence is another of those chores which is easier to carry out during post-production editing than during live shooting . |
| 9 | It did n't take her long to decide she had precisely two choices — well , one , really , because even though it was n't cold it would look wrong to go out in thin cotton to the sort of party he was talking about . |
| 10 | Some church leaders ( and lay people ) are already doing it regularly — guiding individuals in their praying , Bible reading , daily living — others , already over-busy , might well groan at the thought of the faithful queueing up for individual direction . |
| 11 | But my guess is early retirement too , unless you 're prepared to go back to divisional work . |
| 12 | And here , here am I , and then I 'll say you know of course I you know I 'm indebted to you because I realize that , you know , Anna-Marie is quite prepared to go out with other men if she wants |
| 13 | Stotland ( 1977 ) drew a portrait of the executive 's motives for being prepared to go along with corporate crime . |
| 14 | After previous recessions , smaller companies have recovered strongly , and 1993 should see some pick up in economic activity in the UK . |
| 15 | This stands out in stark contrast to the four-speed 'box in the 500SL we tested last December . |
| 16 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 17 | At a meeting this May the Agricultural Ministers agreed that reform was necessary and gave each other a deadline of June 1993 to come up with concrete proposals . |
| 18 | They can be laid to direct or contain flow or to form a dam , the pooling so caused being easier to pick up by wet vacuum than widespread water films . |
| 19 | This smoothing over of social and historical differences can turn discourse analyses ' political implications from productive ambiguity , to complete opacity . |
| 20 | As we have seen , some prior harmonization of standards of authorization and supervision will be necessary but , those limited conditions having been met , banks will then be free to set up in other states . |
| 21 | At each stage of their return to the sea , they became specialised to their particular habitat , some going back into freshwater rivers , others frequenting shallow coastal waters or the deep oceans . |
| 22 | This leads on to basic office systems and personnel records . |
| 23 | Most nest on soda lakes on the Tibetan plateau , but a few travel on to remote high lakes in the Pamirs and Tien Shan . |
| 24 | Thus , while the pluralist political system may experience close liaison between bureaucratic agencies and client groups , in the corporatist state this spills over into covert encouragement by political leaders of direct action by pressure groups . |
| 25 | In general this piling up of biblical texts in the exposition of elementary notions and principles , with the biblical quotations buttressing each other up and introducing ideas foreign to the main theme , creates confusion in the minds of simple average souls who are the majority among good Christians ( Capovilla , 1978a , p. 546 ) . |
| 26 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 27 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 28 | Despite this stirring up of architectural disorder into what one unkind French critic called a ‘ cultural Chernobyl ’ , the powers at Disney , led by its dashing chief executive Michael Eisner , have managed to persuade a handful of élite and influential American architects to participate . |
| 29 | Team organiser , Grove Projects ’ Robin Williams , explains that he would like to hear from players in the London area who would be keen and willing to turn out for regular league and cup matches . |
| 30 | New French findings hint that the tetrapods probably hopped like kangaroos , as their tracks show left and right hind footprints in parallel , rather than alternating , some reaching up to two-metre intervals . |