Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was glad to be given for this talk a problem question — animals and the environment . |
| 2 | He then wired through each hole a Christmas tree light bulb connected to a battery and a bell-push button . |
| 3 | The French monarchy , like the French administrative system , occupied during this period a position intermediate between the extremes to be found in Russia and Prussia on the one hand and in Great Britain on the other . |
| 4 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 5 | He and five senior consultants will seek through judicial review a declaration that Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , used taxpayers ' money unlawfully in implementing white paper directives . |
| 6 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 7 | And you say like five pound a head when they they come in |
| 8 | But Brook had given the volunteer a passage from Peter Weiss ' play on Auschwitz , which recounted with great clarity a description of the dead . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , chapter 41 embodied in statutory form a principle which was to be resoundingly extended and proclaimed a century later by Wyclif : that church property might be recovered where the purpose of the original benefaction was neglected . |
| 10 | I moved away from home to work in another town a year ago , and have met a man who , as far as I 'm concerned , is Mr Right . |
| 11 | He has in one hand a stick and is followed by a thin dog . |
| 12 | ‘ You harbour in this place a lord of the Hidden Folk , an agent of this land 's destruction . |
| 13 | Thereafter , it is added to each time a QAO log entry is actioned . |
| 14 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 15 | how much it is and he starts at five pound a bag . |
| 16 | That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received . |
| 17 | Actually , I was surprised when looking through some book a couple of years ago to find that players like Gray played relatively few game per season , often being injured . |
| 18 | In particular , I studied for some while a figure chalked on a great blackboard which stood close to the bench bearing the sheeted body . |
| 19 | Good we 're doing family things today we had erm we had why these hard times are making the families pull closer together on earlier on and we 're all er looking after each other a lot more so I want a thirty seconds worth of family things today for Loot at Lunchtime . |
| 20 | They have tried to take on board Ayer 's claim that theological language is meaningless , but have made of this meaninglessness a kind of superior divine logic . |
| 21 | In academic , exploratory research where the results are not to be analysed and presented in statistical fashion a research worker may feel that he or she can not have an assistant to help with interviews since the whole approach is very subjective and non-statistical . |
| 22 | In assuming the mantle of David and writing his own psalms , he may even be expressing in this work a sense of identification with David as a type of Christ . |
| 23 | Also mould from black fondant a loop and a catch . |
| 24 | Dave Wise had moved in next door a month ago . |
| 25 | Editor , — After being transferred to human insulin a number of patients have complained that they do not recognise hypoglycaemia as clearly as they used to with animal insulin . |
| 26 | Well I ca n't see her living on five pound a week can you ? |
| 27 | However indirectly related to sensory experience a laboratory quantification of a particular form of energy may be , in the end the rate of exchange between one form of energy and another — the way in which we compare the quantity of one with the quantity of another - reposes upon the gold standard of subjectivity . |
| 28 | ‘ He told me he 'd got in touch again the moment he 'd heard that you 'd decided to soft pedal a bit on work and so could be open to having a boyfriend . ’ |
| 29 | According to this schedule a prosecutor would be appointed less than a month before the presidential elections of November 1992 . |
| 30 | J. Milroy developed techniques for handling quantitatively data of this kind by assigning to each speaker a range score calculated simply by counting from left to right the number of columns through which the variants ranged , and subtracting 1 . |