Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , Burnell goes as a dependable foot soldier and Wright as a tight-head who proved his versatility by scrummaging so solidly at loose-head against Jeff Probyn . |
| 2 | Mostly it is a Monday that slimmers pick for a new health regime , a new diet . |
| 3 | Mm , I 'm sure you 'll find something in Marks and Spencers , I have heard about a new trick mum , how to con money out of Marks and Spencers |
| 4 | The service has been publicised through a public service announcement in Urdu on local television and has been swamped with requests for interpreter help from social services , solicitors and other agencies . |
| 5 | Sir Denys would then take the role of chairman , while Mr Hampel would become chief executive — and push through a radical restructuring plan ? |
| 6 | Just nine first and you dial straight through , you do n't have to wait for a secondary dialling tone do you ? |
| 7 | Suddenly her throat was tight ; a pressure seemed to be constricting her lungs , making it difficult to breathe as a tiny alarm bell began to ring in her brain . |
| 8 | opposite the ‘ Old Pack Horse ’ , whilst at the other Chiswick High Road corner — Heathfield Terrace junction — an obelisk was erected as a permanent War Memorial , around which Memorial Services have been held ever since . |
| 9 | This was the first ever building specifically erected as a social meeting place , as opposed to a church , in this country — or for that matter , anywhere else in the world . |
| 10 | Steel , also designated as a key recovery sector immediately after the war , was a key input into major export industries such as ships ( and in turn the development of huge ore-carrying ships allowed the Japanese steel industry to overcome a major disadvantage in transport costs for materials ) . |
| 11 | Crucially , a rift developed between a local strike leadership and the trade union 's national officials . |
| 12 | Very punctually in mid-May , the nymphs will rise from the bed of the river and hatch through a final nymph stage known to fishermen as ‘ duns ’ . |
| 13 | Hall seems to endorse a proposal made some years ago by that , on the basis of this simple genetic control , ‘ Torsion , and with it the class Gastropoda , arose through a single gene mutation . ’ |
| 14 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 15 | The first sign of this was two approaches to Gabriel for her services ; one disguised as a joking phone call , the other as a polite invitation to lunch , but both real . |
| 16 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 17 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 18 | The third option is to go for a strategic exceptions policy in the structure plan and obviously this is what er the borough considered considers is appropriate . |
| 19 | Far better to go for a new IDE drive , or , probably cheaper , invest in some extra RAM and slap a big software cache onto the machine . |
| 20 | It is a better strategy to create resources for industrialization to go for a rich peasant economy than to go for a middle peasant economy . |
| 21 | But if , if , if that beginning , you know , i if you 're going to go for a rich peasant economy , you 've got ta convince them that it 's , it 's their advantage and it 's gon na last . |
| 22 | The Mirror can not kow-tow before a disciplinary tribunal whose feudal justice was dispensed from the appropriate setting of a committee room tucked between a Real Tennis court and the Lord 's museum . |
| 23 | The different methods of communicating the USP of different types of product are termed communication strata ; a product with a simple USP can be communicated through a low communication stratum , whereas a product with a complex USP can best be communicated through a high communication stratum . |
| 24 | The different methods of communicating the USP of different types of product are termed communication strata ; a product with a simple USP can be communicated through a low communication stratum , whereas a product with a complex USP can best be communicated through a high communication stratum . |
| 25 | Perhaps this has now developed as a whole group drama , with the children playing the townspeople of Hamelin . |
| 26 | Vying for a position against the likes of Cadre Technologies Inc , ObjecTime says its tool — unlike TeamWork from Cadre Technologies — was initially developed as a real-time object CASE tool and is not a traditional CASE kit with object extensions . |
| 27 | VOR holding on a DME fix towards or away from a VOR is flown as a normal VOR hold . |
| 28 | That applies especially to the Arbroath batsman , George Salmond , who showed little signs of the bad calf cut , sustained during a recent football match and which necessitated 18 stitches . |
| 29 | The Ulster Inter-Pro ace has failed in his battle to recover from a thumb injury sustained during a recent skiing holiday . |
| 30 | ‘ ( 1 ) Subject to subsections ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) , a fishing vessel shall only be eligible to be registered as a British fishing vessel if — ( a ) the vessel is British-owned ; ( b ) the vessel is managed , and its operations are directed and controlled , from within the United Kingdom ; and ( c ) any charterer , manager or operator of the vessel is a qualified person or company . |