Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGLAND flew to Poland yesterday with reliance placed in a defence that , like Bobby Robson , has shown a talent for confounding the critics . |
| 2 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 3 | Although in the Iliad the word dikē denotes a judgement given by a judge or an assertion by a party to a dispute of his rights , in the Odyssey it signifies ‘ right ’ or ‘ custom ’ . |
| 4 | Project manager , Rob Bolt said : ‘ This is the first major rebuilding contract undertaken by a HAT and is a very different market for us , as construction managers . ’ |
| 5 | ( 2 ) An appeal under this section shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against or in a case where reasons for a decision have been given under section 18(2) of this Act , within 14 days from the date of receipt of those reasons , which shall be presumed to have been received on the day after the date on which they were posted , except that in the case of reasons posted on a Friday or Saturday , they shall be presumed to have been received on the Monday next following . |
| 6 | The whole hill had the appearance almost of a skull , the apertures like teeth exposed in a grin and black with decay . |
| 7 | One peasant walked 15 versts to get Yakovlev to act on a building designated for a school that was still occupied by an influential peasant . |
| 8 | Almost concurrently came the report of Geoffrey Boycott having his golf clubs lifted from a train and chasing after the thief as though in pursuit of one of his own runs . |
| 9 | Cracks should be repaired with a filler , and porous surfaces primed with a sealant or a diluted coat of masonry paint . |
| 10 | The motor noise dropped to a rumble and feet clattered around his car . |
| 11 | What if he had n't left yet — she could ring him and tell him she 'd chickened out , and he could flap his wings and tease her but at least she would n't have to — oh , hell , here he is , she thought , and watched as the huge bike rolled to a halt and he switched off the engine and hauled it up on the stand . |
| 12 | For example , the equation of motion of a mass constrained by a spring and dashpot is , in the well-known standard form , unc Here we shall consider unc as fixed and unc as a variable ( in practice , a variable spring stiffness ) and for convenience we shall write unc for |
| 13 | Defries stood up , the pain in her chest overwhelmed by a feeling that she recognized as panic . |
| 14 | Blazer offered his workforce a piece of waste ground behind the mattress shed for a pitch and it soon became affectionately known as the ‘ Football Ground ’ . |
| 15 | Her heart dropped like a stone and somehow she got to her feet . |
| 16 | The price for tax purposes will now include any accessories added to a car after it is made available to an employee , unless these were made available on or before 31 July 1993 and excluding those worth less than £100 . |
| 17 | I had just stood up , fully clothed by the doorway , when one of the harmonisers stopped with a snort and a wakeful chomp of his lips . |
| 18 | Young readers taught by an approach that stresses decoding ( accurate word-for-word reproduction of what is on the page ) may fail to become proficient readers . |
| 19 | This means being able to take images received from a Macintosh and save them in a format known as PCX which programs such as CorelDRAW can import . |
| 20 | In any field of employment a successful application depends to some degree on the applicant 's being seen to say and do what is expected during the selection process , and to this extent conventional selection methods can always be faulted for the way they may presume that words uttered on a form or in an interview are reliable indicators of future performance . |
| 21 | The jeep stopped at a caravan that was situated just off the path and under two trees . |
| 22 | What we can clearly recognise , however , is that it is a religion committed to a view that God is personal in a different manner from that in which individual human beings are personal . |
| 23 | His features were strong and rather austere , and his high cheekbones gave him a distinction that was all his own , though the line of his well-cut mouth hinted at a sensuality that disturbed her without her knowing why . |
| 24 | His lips twisted in a smile that was halfway between pain and sorrow . |
| 25 | In recent years some brewers have started to use a cask breather , a simple demand valve connected to a cask and a CO2 cylinder which maintains the gas pressure inside the cask as the beer is drawn off . |
| 26 | It is useful , therefore , to incorporate as many cross-checks as possible into the methods adopted for a study and to be aware of the limitations of material gleaned from a single source . |
| 27 | N-grams are legal letter string combinations collected from a dictionary or a corpus of text . |
| 28 | Initially the programme operated as a project and was evaluated in relation to its specific aims and documented in relation to some of its wider effects and implications . |
| 29 | She turned her face up for his kiss , her heart singing within her as their lips met in a caress that was both healing and passionate . |
| 30 | The key to security : a search made by a buyer or mortgagee with priority receives 30 working days ' priority against any subsequent application — that 's around six weeks ' priority . |