Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had made Lucy take off her anorak so she looked a bit less like an urban guerrilla , even though the T-shirt she was wearing underneath — ‘ Rats Have Rights ’ — was a bit of a giveaway , or maybe I was just paranoid . |
| 2 | … I have always been able to accept non-cooperation only as an effective instrument of nationalist propaganda . |
| 3 | The achievement was praised by Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive , at a special presentation in the showroom where Eddie was given a cheque together with an inscribed replica of the quaich . |
| 4 | A slow but unstoppable flood of sticky tubules pours out of the anus , fastening your fingers together in an adhesive tangle of threads . |
| 5 | And just before dawn , often while it is still completely dark , the male reed warblers in a reedbed will club together in an exuberant chorus to try to lure down migrating females . |
| 6 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 7 | In the past they have brought many candidates together for an entire day of selection activities , which included written tests of their numerical and communication skills . |
| 8 | The great agricultural countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea can free themselves from patriarchal-feudal barbarism only through an agrarian revolution which will transform the peasants from their condition of serfdom or of subjection to the corvée into the free owners of the land — a revolution which will be exactly the same as the French revolution of 1789 in the countryside . |
| 9 | The RP is involved in remembrement only in an advisory capacity ; they have to balance the need for such farmland rationalisation with ecological and landscape considerations . |
| 10 | Modigliani was more interested in the rites and rituals of Judaism , always asking questions , although Max Jacob would wave his talk away with an impatient gesture . |
| 11 | Middlesbrough race at Milton Keynes tonight with an unchanged team . |
| 12 | KENT POLICE began re-interviewing 1,500 people in Deal yesterday in an unusual move to develop leads on last month 's bombing of the Royal Marines ' barracks in the town . |
| 13 | THE vigilante businessman who was cleared last week of murdering a suspected car vandal was jailed for 18 months yesterday for an alternative charge of affray . |
| 14 | An enigmatic reference to Meistersinger in a letter to Rohde in August is followed two months later by an avowed relish for the emotive Wagnerian ethos to which Meistersinger presents , comparatively , such a contrast . |
| 15 | In A.D. 313 the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan which gave to Christians the right to practise their religion openly on an equal basis with other religions . |
| 16 | In A.D. 313 the Roman Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan which gave to Christians the legal right to practise their religion openly on an equal basis with other religions and , after A.D. 325 , Christianity became the official religion of the empire . |
| 17 | Confusingly , in broad gauge circles , our standard gauge is known as ‘ the ’ narrow gauge and I will use this term here with an occasional reminder . |
| 18 | The Crystal Palace winger , who returned this season after 10 months on the sidelines with knee ligament damage , travels back to the United States tomorrow for an urgent check-up . |
| 19 | The Crystal Palace winger , who returned this season after 10 months on the sidelines with knee ligament damage , travels back to the United States tomorrow for an urgent check-up . |
| 20 | INSTONIANS give six newcomers a chance to prove their worth when the new season swings into action tomorrow with an all-city clash against Collegians at Deramore . |
| 21 | Sergeant-Major Céar Méléra , a tough adventurer , who had sailed around the world in peacetime and who appeared little affected by the horrors of war , describes his experience of Verdun shell-fire initially with an unemotional economy of words : ‘ Filthy night , shells . ’ |
| 22 | bee-keeper may give away a hive , and later the recipient will find a way of unobtrusively repaying the kindness either with an appropriate gift or with some worthwhile service . |
| 23 | He then swept the car forward with an extravagant gesture of a bow and rejoined his mates who were laughing and calling out to him . |
| 24 | That which sets a limited partnership apart from an ordinary partnership is the fact that provided certain requirements are met ‘ limited partners ’ may escape full liability for partnership debts ; thus their liability is limited to the extent of their investment in the partnership . |
| 25 | That should stop Pat Eddery or Peter Scudamore suddenly appearing on a horse instead of an obscure rider . |
| 26 | The Cannon Coalridge 's new Power Flue option allows installation up to 4m away from an outside wall , and will also take in up to four right angled bends |
| 27 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 28 | The Wellenkuppe summit , a white notch against a blue sky , was only five minutes away up an easy snow slope , but almost everyone stopped at the top of the rock pitch for a second breakfast . |
| 29 | Ormonde duly did so , but this time a storm drove him back to France , and he got into St Malo just as an English squadron arrived to blockade it . |
| 30 | Now new work at the museum together with an innovative exhibition programme will aim to place the museum at the forefront of thought and experimentation on urban design as well as in the context of French history . |