Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flight tests were conducted by F/L Ian Little , initially under tow behind a Jeep and later behind a Tiger Moth . |
| 2 | Hanging accessories , known as ‘ D ’ rings , are best fixed to the hardboard with rivets , which are secured by pushing through the ring and then through a hole made in the hardboard , before being split open with a hammer . |
| 3 | Gallup 's survey was conducted on Tuesday and yesterday among a sample of 2,478 voters . |
| 4 | After passing out top of his class he signed up for his National Service and travelled around Europe , first with the King 's Dragoon Guards and then as an officer in the Catering Corps . |
| 5 | Pete Bushell is the second Engine Driver , who before joining the railway in 1981 , worked as a British Rail Fireman on Steam Engines at Stafford and then as an Engine Driver at the Granville Pit , Donnington . |
| 6 | There is a move by many environmental agencies both in Mexico and elsewhere for a return to traditional forms of agriculture , as they are considered to be better for the environment . |
| 7 | It comes out of your mouth and instead of a mask over your face , your this tube connects directly to the ventilator and the anaesthetic machine . |
| 8 | However , eight blocks have been licensed in Cardigan Bay , against the advice of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , near one of the country 's two marine nature reserves and home to a population of bottle-nosed dolphins . |
| 9 | Thus , the fringing reef would be changed into a barrier reef and finally into an atoll if the island subsided completely . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal stated that it was impermissible to make a finding of 100% contributory negligence , as the Act states that the plaintiff must suffer damage partly as a result of his own fault and partly as a result of the defendant 's fault . |
| 11 | The latter validate courses in polytechnics and also in a number of the colleges of higher education ; they include courses leading to awards such as the Diploma of the Institute of Administrative Management ; the Diploma of the British Association of Occupational Therapists ; the Licentiateship of the Hotel , Catering and Institutional Management Association ; the Certificate of Qualification in Social Work ; and the Bilingual Secretarial Diploma . |
| 12 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 13 | An example is where a director has agreed to try to sell shares on behalf of the shareholders , in which case he is acting as their agent and not as a director of the company . |
| 14 | Now here takes over , under pressure he is from Chris back inside his own half , taking over is Nicky , blasts that one forward towards Graham he 's trying to hook it out to on this right hand side and that one goes well beyond David and out for a throw-in . |
| 15 | Adorno preferred instead to see fetishism as part of an objective social totality and not as a characteristic of human subjectivity ( Frisby 1985 , pp. 233–72 ) . |
| 16 | If he knew what I wanted he 'd be out of the car and away in a flash of shock . |
| 17 | Several people complimented her on the beauty of the surroundings , because it was her picnic and so for a while Wales was her dining-room . |
| 18 | Of course there is also pantomime and now in a museum ! |
| 19 | Well next spring , in May of next year , we 're looking to put a trip together to go to the northwest of the country , to Old Trafford , obviously er Manchester United 's home ground , also to Anfield and also to a couple of er other places that are n't sort of sporty but I 'm sure will interest you . |
| 20 | Off to one side of the house stood a low whitewashed building originally used as stables and later as a garage , but which , after much industrious clearing , cleaning and the application of repeated coats of apricot-white emulsion now did duty as studio-cum-shop . |
| 21 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 22 | ICI Chlor-Chemicals takes salt solution from its brine fields and turns it first into chlorine and then into a host of downstream products . |
| 23 | You have a term and then in a middle of the term you have a half term do n't you ? |
| 24 | It had happened before — a surge in mortgage lending , which led first to a boom and then to a bust . |
| 25 | What is indisputable is that as an undergraduate and then as a research worker for Child Poverty Action Group , far from regarding such evidence as ‘ defeatist talk ’ you not only accepted it but added to it . |
| 26 | She recognised him at once from the blunt-nosed profile and pepper-and-salt hair en brosse and the large tinted lenses of his glasses , and the way he hooked his head to one side and forward like a boxer butting . |
| 27 | I read oil engineering which was primarily on the production side and out of a course of thirteen , I was the only one who was interested in the chemical side of it — the refining side . |
| 28 | The image in Figure 5.12 of an inlaid Islamic brass ewer is formed by X-rays passing through the ewer and on to a sheet of film beneath it . |
| 29 | A policy basis for this rule might be that the preferable way to protect employment rights is by an action for unfair dismissal before an Industrial Tribunal or by an ordinary action for breach of contract ; and that in cases with no clear public element recourse should be had to such alternative remedies and not to an AJR in the High Court . |
| 30 | This is something only you can judge , but most of the waters I fish respond well to a half-bucket of groundbait and up to a pint of maggots and/or fifty or sixty worms . |