Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] an [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They grey and filthy 2,000 capacity venue looks like an outsized Hammersmith Clarendon . |
| 2 | Ballymoney grabbed the winner five minutes from full time when a deep cross from Neill found substitute Millar who headed into an empty Cookstown net . |
| 3 | It nestles in an unspoilt Cotswold valley . |
| 4 | The findings , contained in an exclusive ICM Research poll for The Scotsman , are further evidence that the country 's current moral panic is not a media invention but a widespread social concern . |
| 5 | There should then be no plateaux in the Hall voltage because as more electrons are added to an unfilled Landau level we expect a smooth decrease of the Hall voltage . |
| 6 | There was a nationalist fear that they might be confined to an internal Northern Ireland settlement , but this has been denied . |
| 7 | The site of the present Transport Offices is here occupied by an old Marton Box car which has collected a cable-drum from the railway siding of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Rigby Road . |
| 8 | A painting of a salmon which was owned by an eccentric Cheltenham antiques dealer could throw fishing records into turmoil . |
| 9 | Caught by an airborne Nick Veronico on October 15 was the awesome Hughes HK-1 Spruce Goose on the deck of an enormous barge heading north off the shore of Pacifica , California . |
| 10 | Among the queue of nervous users invited onto the stage to be interviewed by an avuncular Bill Gates was one from National Westminster Bank Plc , which is developing a document management and workflow system based on 40 multiprocessor Sequent Computer Systems Inc servers and 150 Windows for Workgroups clients ; Gates said 20 hardware vendors have now agreed to bundle NT with their hardware — but starkly different from this focus was Gates ' assertion that most NT sales would come from people upgrading existing Windows machines . |
| 11 | Among the queue of nervous users invited onto the stage to be interviewed by an avuncular Bill Gates was one from National Westminster Bank Plc , which is developing a document management and workflow system based on 40 multiprocessor Sequent Computer Systems Inc servers and 150 Windows for Workgroups clients . |
| 12 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 13 | A Midlands motor dealer ( ‘ A fair deal with Grunt' — the ‘ e ’ had been added later , upon his election to Parliament ) , he was built like an elderly Land Rover . |
| 14 | Yet it turns out that Mr Yanagitani , who was dismissed from Daiwa last month , had in recent years turned into an aspiring George Soros . |
| 15 | He equalised only a minute after Chelsea had taken the lead when Wise , at the far post , had stabbed in an aimless Stuart cross after 26 minutes . |
| 16 | He came from an ancient Corvedale family , branches of which were in the forefront of Shropshire life during the seventeenth century — Francis 's nephew was a Member for Wenlock in Charles I 's parliament . |
| 17 | The two 10-tonne rams came from an old Volvo dump-truck and are connected to a cross-shaft at the top . |
| 18 | The people of Britain are less concerned about environmental problems than those in many developing countries , according to an international Gallup poll survey conducted in 22 countries . |
| 19 | According to an unimpressed NT product manager , Richard Greenberg , COSE will have no impact whatsoever on anything Microsoft is doing . |
| 20 | In light-water reactors ( including PWRs ) the concrete shell of the reactor building needs to withstand a pressure of five bars , whereas a fast breeder has to cope with a mere 40 millibars , according to an Electricite de France engineer . |
| 21 | In the bottom of the hi-fi cabinet I found , sandwiched between an old Ramones LP and the new Tommy Smith , the few printed sheets I possess . |
| 22 | At dawn on Friday morning a CPR freight train , travelling at high speed , had crashed into an old Model-T Ford killing , in a rather mangled mess , the entire staff of five from a Chinese restaurant who were en route to Regina for a visit with relatives . |
| 23 | The plain walls were painted in a typically French eighteenth-century green , a colour picked up in the rich , floral design of the fabric , copied from an eighteenth-century Lyons silk , battened to the adjoining wall , and used for the opulent bed coverings . |
| 24 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 25 | That enigmatic black monolith dwindles to an all-too-reasonable von Neumann machine , its godlike makers to folk only slightly upmarket from ourselves . |
| 26 | She gazed again at the peaceful scene in front of her until her eyes rested on an old Severn Punt lying high and dry on the foreshore . |
| 27 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 28 | The machines are air-cooled , taking up one tenth of the power and physical space needed by an equivalent IBM mainframe , for around 1/5th of the overall cost of ownership over three years , or a third of the price of a VAX 9000 , according to HP figures . |
| 29 | But ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ , refuelled by an unsolicited US video , kindly supplied by Sire Records out of necessity for MTV , catapulted The Smiths into the hearts and minds of hungry anglophiles . |
| 30 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |