Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] a [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 defendant acquiescing in a plaintiffs inexcusable , inordinate and prejudicial delay in prosecuting an action was thereby debarred from having it dismissed for want of prosecution .
2 THE smallest crowd of the season at McDiarmid Park last night saw St Johnstone recover from a backs-to-the-wall first half to take two vital points from Falkirk .
3 Another Mitchell got his nickname for always having his head stuck in a boys annual of the twenties — he became known as " Pill Box Annual " but this eventually was shortened to Annal Mitchell , by which he is still known .
4 The terminals start with a 14″ 1024 by 768 screen with 4Mb of memory and include a $2,900 17″ 1,152 by 900 monitor with 4Mb and a high-end 20″ 1,280 by 1,024 screen with 4Mb displaying two pages of text side-by-side .
5 My tyres rumbled across a cattle grating ; I watched for a marker board of the Screw Worm Quarantine Line .
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