Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His extraordinary conceit and capacity for intrigue spilled over into a genuine mental instability and in 1869 he was removed from Rome to a lunatic asylum in a convent at Passy , a suburb of Paris . |
| 2 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 3 | He said that the magazine was in good health and that they had not even had to obtain a ‘ medical opinion ’ on the subject ( it was of course supported partly by a subsidy from Lady Rothermere ) , but that he would look into the Radcliffe Camera question . |
| 4 | The problem of course goes inescapably to a notion of the quality of experience ( though what we are calling the aesthetic here is not , or not only , a question of intensity ) . |
| 5 | JFK : The Director 's Cut still starring Kevin Costner , of course runs now for a weighty 200 minutes and includes whole scenes axed from the cinema version . |
| 6 | People who go through any kind of shit come out with a certain sense of humour : it comes from the pain you go through and how you handle it . |
| 7 | My night of glory ended up with a hobble to the shower and a flop into bed — very athletic , eh ? |
| 8 | On the other , it is a disadvantage to have the risk of a large volume of money tied up with a single customer who could be a slow payer . |
| 9 | On all sides : the abolitionists , the retentionists , and the abstainers , the vote was recognized as a momentous one in which the consciences of Members of Parliament came up against a profound issue transcending party politics . |
| 10 | There is a need for such evaluators , but they are surely a very minor part in a much larger process , for evaluation is foremost an attitude of mind backed up by a series of techniques which may , indeed , be very simple and which affect all the workers from the start and throughout the project . |
| 11 | Enzymes are a form of protein made out of a very precise order of amino acids . |
| 12 | Steel-Maitland , Boraston , Jenkins and Fraser made up a team of experts , all of sufficient status to deal with politicians who might call into the office ; the work of the office was departmentalized for the first time and the heads of department brought together into a supervising board . |
| 13 | For whereas a subordinate rule of a system may be valid and in that sense ‘ exist ’ even if it is generally disregarded , the rule of recognition exists only as a complex , but normally concordant , practice of the courts , officials , and private persons in identifying the law by reference to certain criteria . |
| 14 | Closer than seemed possible , striking against an almost purple sky , we saw Kanchenjunga with a bright plume of snow standing out like a triumphal flag . |
| 15 | Ahead , the low morning sun kissed an ice-cliff and a spindrift of snow scarfed brilliantly in a slow-motion avalanche . |
| 16 | When the ritual is finished , a ring of stone around the perimeter of the magic circle flies out of the ground and a huge spout of blood gushes outwards in a wave over the adventurers . |
| 17 | Rather the critic frequently seems to adopt an inflated posture , where his or her negotiation of a text becomes a journey of discovery marked out with a rhetoric of almost heroic endeavour . |
| 18 | Customs of inheritance differed sharply on a regional basis , and the distribution of wealth , castles , fiefs and allodial holdings was uneven . |
| 19 | Although his support for Darwinism was unusual , his concept of successive waves of migration radiating outwards from a centre of progressive evolution seems to have struck a chord in the minds of his contemporaries . |
| 20 | If you watch the start or the first few miles , you 'll see a mass of humanity moving along at a snail 's pace . |
| 21 | A trail of ash led down to a ragged , greasy jacket , buttoned with extreme strain over two pullovers which reached to just above the knee of oiled and dusty denims . |
| 22 | Anna stopped to examine the great plates of fungus growing out from a tree-stump . |
| 23 | Alternatively , dispense 10 double drops of fixative on a wax plate ( dental wax , or a sheet of parafilm stuck down on a glass surface ) , and float each grid on the surface of a drop ( 1 grid per drop — use each drop once only ) . |
| 24 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 25 | [ 2 ] During 1991 and 1992 , these initial recommendations were greatly revised and reorganised , largely as a result of work carried out in a number of small specialist work groups , set up following a detailed technical review meeting held in November 1991. [ 3 ] A second draft ( P2 ) began publication as a series of electronic fascicles in April 1992 , and is due for completion in July 1993 , following a further technical review in May , and presentation to the TEI 's Advisory Board in June . |
| 26 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 27 | The tide had ebbed , and vast stretches and humps of sand shimmered away into a yellow infinity . |
| 28 | Every so often there was a little crab corpse or a twist of sand thrown up by a sandworm or a streak of brilliant green weed like the hair of a water nymph and sometimes a smooth small rock and beside it a still , clear , tiny pool with mussels , blue black and pearly . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope and pray that the decision to give me the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage all those who pursue the cause of peace to do so in a renewed spirit of optimism and strength . ’ |
| 30 | Anatoliy , a carpenter , had four layers of clothing topped off with a quilted cotton work-jacket and trousers . |