Example sentences of "a [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fixative was applied between layers to allow a solid build up of pigment . |
| 2 | It 's now a rubber-lined tray with a mini-console jutting up in front , housing switches for mirrors , head-lamp height and a coin tray . |
| 3 | In Somerset , consultants already hold clinics in GPs ' surgeries , but the health authority is looking at new ways of providing services in rural areas , following a recent survey which showed a low take up of hospital services by those in remote areas with poor transport . |
| 4 | Personally , I do n't like the exercise of feeling a definite pull down from the top of the backswing . |
| 5 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 6 | And they have to move to other industries , er productive industries and service industries and er communications for example which is very run down , and that 's going to take I should think , six to nine months of really hard work and suffering , and and a political clean up at the same time , because in the schools and universities for instance , er nobody could get a job in the old days , who was n't politically reliable , and all those people have got to be moved . |
| 7 | Quite a few wound up in the private labs in Switzerland . |
| 8 | Erm if I give you a ring about Sunday or so I will have sorted out cos I 've got quite a few to sort out at the moment . |
| 9 | She threw down the beads , and a few rolled on to the floor . |
| 10 | The archers cut them down — a few broke back for home unscathed . |
| 11 | Most nest on soda lakes on the Tibetan plateau , but a few travel on to remote high lakes in the Pamirs and Tien Shan . |
| 12 | Quite a few turned up with us , I thought , I mean I thought I would n't know anything , but no one else had read the book . |
| 13 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 14 | OF THE OTHER NEW ‘ JAPANESE ’ SAVOY titles , a few stand out from the crowd . |
| 15 | The troops , expecting to be ‘ home by Christmas ’ after a few gallant cavalry charges , held an impressive open air church parade in the Recreation Field and in late August the town gave a lively send off to a detachment of the ‘ Kings Own ’ . |
| 16 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 17 | In this way there was in human history a cumulative build up of knowledge and success in adaptation to the environment which made human beings very quick to adapt to new problems — much more easily and quickly than if they had depended only on genetic transmission . |
| 18 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 19 | The most influential example of a political lead in curriculum policy is Nyerere 's pamphlet Education for Self-Reliance published in 1967 , a direct follow up of Tanu 's Arusha Declaration . |
| 20 | And modern salinometers will automatically compensate for the temperature and pressure and do this conversion so you can get a direct read out from an electrical instrument of the salinity . |
| 21 | Three days before you go away make sure you do a proper clean up of the tank . |
| 22 | If the postman knocks on the door to delivery the only parcel you 've received in the past three years , you can guarantee it will be at just before eight on the first Saturday morning you 've had a chance to have a proper lie in for months . |
| 23 | Over 90% of the study population was successfully traced , with a median follow up of 14 years . |
| 24 | Dufeck , also in 1990 described his experience with the procedure in 15 patients , five ( 33% ) of whom developed biliary complications , two requiring surgery , and three a repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography to establish drainage ; 13 patients were symptom free at a median follow up of 25 months . |
| 25 | Conservative treatment with long term cyclophosphamide was effective in both stage I and stage IV disease , and all the patents are alive after a median follow up of 4.5 years . |
| 26 | Lancing 's master-in-charge , John Wilks , described the scoreline as ‘ a perfect summing up of the match — dull ’ . |
| 27 | They were a tremendous send up of ‘ camp ’ characters years before their time , two ‘ glaring queens ’ , as Paddick pointed out . |
| 28 | ‘ It all happened so quickly , and there was a tremendous build up of water which has caused extensive damage . |
| 29 | We shall be leaving Peking for Sian at 11.30 this evening , and the comrades have given us a rousing send off with beautiful presents including a big embroidered tablecloth and napkins , and a beautiful framed picture made out of shells , with an inscription written on it specially for & I. They also gave us the enclosed photos , which give you an idea of what life is like here . |
| 30 | Much more relevant is the issue of whether , even without biochemical caveat , memory can really be such a simple , mechanical process , a straightforward linking up of neurons into some novel network in the IMHV , like rewiring a computer ? |