Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian disclosed in July that the Ministry of Agriculture secretly agreed to an investigation as soon as the US findings were known . |
| 2 | All these activities suddenly came to an end when Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists after the USSR had tried to take over the KMT . |
| 3 | While his superstar peers make records with one ear cocked in anxious deference to pop currency , Prince alone behaves like an aristocrat , squandering the success he 's earned rather than consolidating the estate with cautious measures . |
| 4 | In a disputed property case , because the Class F effectively comes to an end on the issue of the decree absolute protective steps mentioned in the next section should be taken . |
| 5 | And I says let us see , and she 's and I says now keep back and I rung Don and explained and the doctor said Jean just ring for an ambulance . |
| 6 | There were many fans who drifted in and out of the groups without making any sequential progress at all and the groups to the left of the terrace always provided for an escape from the soccer ‘ rat race ’ . |
| 7 | It must be one of the funniest speeches ever written for an actress , and needs a bubbly , light touch . |
| 8 | The Association also acts as an information centre for all aspects of teaching in the member schools . |
| 9 | The act of passing light through a polariser also acts as an operator , in this case applied to the physical states of the photon 's polarisation . |
| 10 | The drivers also act as an interface between hardware and software . |
| 11 | Military action also served as an outlet for widespread samurai discontent . |
| 12 | The principle of orality clearly belongs to an age in which the speedy production of multiple copies of documents was a slow labour-intensive exercise . |
| 13 | These degrees make possible a pattern of study uniquely adapted to an individual 's interests . |
| 14 | Ellen now worked at an adventure playground — the Christabel Focus — for underprivileged girls in an ethnically mixed section of the city . |
| 15 | From 1900 to 1913 European investment abroad ran at an average of £350 million a year , to the real benefit of the receiving countries . |
| 16 | His smiling lips almost curved into an invitation which his calling would not permit him to express . |
| 17 | Jean Rhys virtually disappeared as an author between 1939 and 1966 , and Flann O'Brien 's At Swim-Two-Birds passed similarly through a penumbra of neglect between first publication in 1939 and a popular reissue in 1960 . |
| 18 | The localised states thus act as an electron reservoir , keeping the effective density of mobile electrons constant over ranges of V that have widths proportional to the number of states in the mobility gap . |
| 19 | This was a half-truth , which Sir Patrick soon presented as an untruth . |
| 20 | July eventually ground to an end and the steam was taken out of that difficult month by an event which had nothing to do with politics . |
| 21 | The long sermon eventually came to an end and shortly afterwards the young couple left the chapel as man and wife , to the applause of those who had witnessed the ceremony . |
| 22 | The Shetland Islands , the most northerly part of the United Kingdom at sixty degrees north , lie well south the true Arctic , but still far enough north that in midsummer the sun only sets for an hour or two . |
| 23 | What follows is an amplification of matters already discussed with an emphasis on contemporary culture and the conflict at its summit between the resurgent tragic impulse and the rationalistic spirit of Wissenschaft . |
| 24 | The purge soon spread to an onslaught against oppositionists within the party itself . |
| 25 | When they gave quite unacceptable displays of dissent , such as Holding kicking down the stumps or Croft deliberately barging into an umpire who had no-balled him , Lloyd did nothing to discipline them in public view . |
| 26 | I also heard that my parents both died of an illness only a year after their wedding . |
| 27 | With scrupulous fairness Hall also reproduces in an appendix a report by Karin Figala of Munich , who provided him with a summary of her own research on Newton 's alchemical studies . |
| 28 | The Council also called for an emergency Arab League meeting to discuss the killings . |
| 29 | Visitors to ancient monastic sites often comment on an atmosphere of profound peace which they seem , instantly , to absorb . |
| 30 | Pruning to the same hard degree invariably results in an explosion of growth , and such varieties are really much better given enough space elsewhere to do their own thing , and be treated as shrub roses . |