Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But things begin to go wrong when a dinosaur expert , played by Irish-born New Zealand actor Sam Neill , and his girlfriend , played by Laura Dern , arrive on the scene . |
| 2 | On this amp , Ch.1 is the lead channel and the standard volume , treble , middle , bass and master volume controls are also given the secondary tasks of channel select , gain 1 , gain 2 and a notch shift . |
| 3 | It had to be modified in 1961 when it became clear that a minority holding did not provide a certain defence against a determined takeover , but Whitbread continued to retain minority holdings in a number of regional brewers , which enabled them to retain their independence . |
| 4 | It is , for example , becoming clear that a family history of left handedness is in some way related to the cerebral organisation of functions . |
| 5 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 6 | Having made a perfect pain of myself ( not very hard ) on the Edelrid stand last year , it 's good to see their Full Carbon Helmet now has elastic and a headtorch clip front and back . |
| 7 | As traders fall over themselves to dump the pound , the wise grow wary that a bear trap may await them further down the line . |
| 8 | She was a little woman , not much taller than Carrie , but she seemed strong as a railway porter , carrying their cases as if they weighed nothing . |
| 9 | It was made clear that a management buy-out was not on the agenda . |
| 10 | But all those optimistic forecasts have been catastrophically wrong and the doomsters proved right , after all Britain has instead suffered the most severe and unremitting recession of the postwar period : and there is no evidence , even now , that the economy has bottomed out , let alone that a growth rate anywhere near the 2.5 per cent necessary to stop unemployment from rising indefinitely is on the horizon . |
| 11 | There was Sgt Steve Murdoch , a rough diamond of a Scot who broke all the rules by dating Sandy and an Intelligence Sergeant both at the same time — that is , on alternate nights . |
| 12 | Until the public is made aware that a selection policy directs and determines acquisitions , the misconception will continue . |
| 13 | As a PC depreciates faster than a catwalk model who 's just turned 30 , here are my tips for those of you who do n't want to lose your shirts : |
| 14 | Make sure that a fuse lamp is fitted in one of the lampholders . |
| 15 | He says it is absolutely the case that the baby can not be born alive if a Caesarean operation is not carried out . |
| 16 | If LIFESPAN does not find the QAO log file it will create another when a QAO log is actioned for the module . |
| 17 | Two days earlier , Myeni had escaped unhurt after a hand grenade was thrown into his house in Soweto . |
| 18 | Well , I , I wan na go skiing as well , so you get more than a day trip . |
| 19 | So it 's not a progression all in one way but I have to say that even by the standards of the Lloyd George era , the battle by memoir which we now see for considerable sums of money has become more than a cottage industry , it 's a production line industry . |
| 20 | In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams . |
| 21 | The door of the interview room swung open and a detective constable swaggered in . |
| 22 | ‘ The BNP contends that it will take more than a Race Equality Council to smooth over the cracks of the fragmenting edifice that is the multi-racial society . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The BNP contends it will take more than a Race Equality Council to smooth over the cracks of the fragmenting edifice that is the multi-racial society . ’ |
| 24 | She needed more than a non-committal grunt in answer to her outpourings . |
| 25 | In principle , it seems unjust that a homicide conviction should not be possible in such a case , if all the other elements can be established and only the ‘ year and a day ’ rule stands in the way . |
| 26 | But the Escort did n't stop , it came on until it blocked the road completely and before I could react , my door had been pulled open and a warrant card thrust in my face . |
| 27 | One person informed us that he lost four and a half stone doing jury service : we considered sending on his letter to weight-watchers , so that the future courtroom might feature twelve fat men and true . |
| 28 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 29 | Using one and a quarter fullness , i.e. , one width of 120cm ( 48in ) wide fabric with finished curtain width of 112cm ( 44in ) . |
| 30 | In most mainframe mapping packages it is possible to produce the map in what is called device-independent form , so that it can be output to any suitable peripheral such as a plotter , a graphics display terminal or a film writer . |