Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had looked more suitable for a West End hairdressing salon . |
| 2 | The rugged , weatherbeaten face , with its look of dependable fortitude , would have looked more appropriate above a seaman 's guernsey , preferably with RNLI woven across the chest . |
| 3 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 4 | His rangy , graceless figure , over six feet high , still looked as incongruous in a formal suit as it always had . |
| 5 | In one case , a man was interviewed twice weekly for an hour , over a period of eight months , until only a few months before his death . |
| 6 | Judged against government norms , this amount of residential provision can be considered relatively modest for a district with a population of 260,000 . |
| 7 | The solution must have looked quite funny to an onlooker . |
| 8 | ‘ A moment always comes when we have looked too long at a landscape … |
| 9 | It was considered too onerous for a man to serve both as coroner and verderer , and verderers were often excused from serving in the former office . |
| 10 | The consultants clearly expected too much from an over-generalised model , and as a result they produce results which lurch from the absurd to the ludicrous . |
| 11 | III be considered truly productive on a social scale ? |
| 12 | Though you 're bound to try to make it work , I do see , ’ he said , watching her hands , ‘ in a place where opportunism 's gone mad and grown so repulsive as a political dynamic . ’ |
| 13 | He had not felt so good in a long time . |
| 14 | Mozart had written only 50 of a proposed 415 bars of music , and had sketched in the outline of the melody for the next 80 bars . |
| 15 | Former Manchester United reserve Paul Dalton is rated extremely doubtful with a strained thigh muscle . |
| 16 | There would be enormous difficulties in trying to operate a general rule that had not been made sufficiently specific at a proper point beforehand . |
| 17 | This hypothesis is consistent with two observations : firstly , the VSG promoter region is smaller than that of the procyclin/PARP promoter ( 22 , 36-38 ) ; secondly , the procyclin/PARP promoter appears to be positioned just downstream of a region transcribed by a different RNA polymerase , which terminates in close proximity to the procyclin/PARP promoter ( 33 , 39 , 40 ) . |
| 18 | Agfa have done just this with a genuine Adobe PostScript RIP for their Matrix range although , at £12,000 , it 's not a cheap upgrade . |
| 19 | And that is , when , I ca n't remember what it 's called , and erm when the sex cells are made exactly half of an individual 's genes go into each , and when sex cells er come together in a fertilized exactly half of each parent 's genes are fitted together , so that 's completely fair , well almost completely fair , because there are a few genes outside the nucleus that only get they 're , they 're in a rather minority . |
| 20 | For example , when it was discovered in the 1970s that male workers in America and Costa Rica had been made permanently sterile by a pesticide called dibromochloropropane , the substance was banned . |
| 21 | ‘ I have never felt more comfortable in a job saying I just do not know , ’ he said . |
| 22 | All of these initiatives were made more possible as a result of , and parallel to , Local Management of Schools and all in spite of the petty opposition of so many Labour Local Government controlling groups , who just ca n't bear the thought that the L E A is at last breaking free of absolute Local Government control . |
| 23 | MultiGen , meantime , has been made more powerful through a number of virtual reality options . |
| 24 | Left : A long , practical flight , built with Marshalls concrete paving blocks , is made more interesting with a mix of colours , chosen to match the walling bricks |
| 25 | The case for abolition was made more urgent as a result of the experience of Labour in government after 1974 . |
| 26 | The earlier text thus revealed can be made more legible by a program that enhances the contrast , picking out the Gothic letters from the surrounding gloom . |
| 27 | This was complicated but not necessarily made more difficult by a summer and early autumn dominated by the build-up of the dispute between Italy and Abyssinia , the first issue since 1918 to make the threat of European war vivid to the British people . |
| 28 | Younger natives in the audience were made distinctly restless by an unadorned programme of traditional Indian dance , while even un-jaded oldies could be forgiven for finding the storybook tones of the play more testing than they should be . |
| 29 | It was built c. 310 as a Roman rotunda by the Emperor Galerius and , like the Pantheon , has eight great arches and entrances on the ground floor and a massive dome overhead . |
| 30 | A brick coal store was built about 1885 with a short branch from the tramway . |