Example sentences of "[vb base] in a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cover with buttered paper and a lid , and cook in a very slow oven , gas no. 1 , 290°F. , for about 2 hours . |
| 2 | Still , one little slip in an otherwise faultless performance … |
| 3 | Immediately on his return from Gosol , while Gertrude Stein was still in Italy , he repainted the face , using the conventions of Iberian sculpture , although , since he was anxious to achieve a likeness , they appear in a slightly modified form . |
| 4 | Shot through with sermonising , piety , and concern for good government , they are ostensibly valuable sources on the law- giving activities of these kings , who appear in a very favourable light . |
| 5 | Goody suggests that written language has two main functions : the first is the storage function which permits communication over time and space , and the second is that which ‘ shifts language from the oral to the visual domain' and permits words and sentences to be examined out of their original contexts , ‘ where they appear in a very different and highly ‘ abstract ’ context' ( 1977 : 78 ) . |
| 6 | This skilfully manipulates alliteration and rhyme in a humorously wry acknowledgement of the archetypally human facility for putting off that effort of intellectual and emotional energy involved in recognising and acting on the truth . |
| 7 | I eased the cork out of the bottle very quietly , as if I was a maître d' in a very posh restaurant . |
| 8 | Sometimes I 'd stamp my foot and cry in a completely feminine burst of frustration and he 'd stand bewildered , pleading ignorance and apologising . |
| 9 | And a lifetime of line-ups by the sound of things , I say in a rather low voice . |
| 10 | Hiding from self and hiding from others interact in a particularly unfortunate way . |
| 11 | The different dimensions of conflict overlap and interact in a sometimes bewildering variety of ways . |
| 12 | We are ‘ pluralists ’ in that we recognize that a large number of varied elements ( including a variety of interest groups with greater or lesser power ) are involved in the penal system and its crisis , and that these elements interact in a highly complex manner . |
| 13 | However , for the attitudinist , they function in a perfectly intelligible way in a discourse which explores relations of consistency and inconsistency between various possible and actual attitudes . |
| 14 | They can , however , still be distinguished from organized political formations such as parties which are directly engaged in the struggle for power in the sense of seeking to retain or capture the government of some political unit , by the fact that social movements act in a more diffuse way and if they are successful establish only the preconditions for changes of policy or regime by bringing into question the legitimacy of the existing political system ( in part or in whole ) , creating a different climate of opinion , and proposing alternatives . |
| 15 | It could be that teenage girls nowadays act in a more self-confident manner , and that this fuels notions that they are becoming more violent . |
| 16 | Place on a baking sheet and bake in a very low oven until crisp . |
| 17 | Bake in a very hot oven , 450F/230C/gas 8 , for about 10 minutes . |
| 18 | And my suspicion is they put in a selectively low bid on that particular job . |
| 19 | Profits er , from oil services were well and educational publishing in the U S er , put in a very strong performance . |
| 20 | you 're relax you speak in a totally different way . |
| 21 | One vulture sighting carrion below unintentionally informs all others of its availability by swooping downwards , and thus dozens of vultures arrive at the scene of an animal kill in a very short space of time . |
| 22 | It was him above all she would be trying to impress by her break with convention — impress in a quite futile way , because it was obvious that he and Clare were permanently attached . |
| 23 | I acknowledge that experience has shown that local authority councillors have not sought to assert the right to sue in libel , save in a very small number of cases . |
| 24 | For those who view in a broadly positive light the reforming thrust of the 1931–3 governments , the fate of the Republic is to be explained by the underlying polarization within Spanish society , the inevitable conflicts which democracy therefore released , the obduracy of the conservative and the privileged , and the unwillingness of the main party of the right , the CEDA , to accept the Republic and the readjustment of wealth necessary to make democracy work . |
| 25 | Well , because this ‘ childish game ’ conceals the peculiarities of our development , the facts are far fetched , many things stand in a completely false perspective . |
| 26 | The two senses of long in 83a and b , and of heavy in 84a and b stand in a slightly different relation , but one of the same type : |
| 27 | Initial identification of variables has not generally been discussed as a problem , presumably because linguistic elements of English which vary in a socially patterned manner are often very salient and sometimes rather general throughout the English-speaking world . |
| 28 | He died as active as ever and , although only forty-five , had already crammed more into that space of time than most people manage in a far longer span . |
| 29 | No , might be my speech , do we need a , meet , meet in a more public place , erm . |
| 30 | Vega , in Lyra , is skirting the northern horizon , and any slight mist will hide it ; it is worth noting that Vega , Polaris and Capella lie in a fairly straight line , so that when Capella is high up Vega is low down , and vice versa . |