Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And really the doctors have known that for years because a lot of cancer patients they put on er |
| 2 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
| 3 | Heel of the palm : Fast and less prone to injury than a punch . |
| 4 | A man and woman who freely and willingly engage in anal intercourse are thus as guilty of buggery as a man who perpetrates a violent anal attack . |
| 5 | The first level — the gift relationship — is characterised by an inequality in the relationship such as sponsorship where a firm offers an institution something with no direct or equivalent return . |
| 6 | Stansfield 's own personal antipathy to medical involvement in the contagious diseases acts , together with his ignorance of scientific matter she knew as much of science as a cow does of conic sections , according to one contemporary — may have exacerbated Simon 's problems at the board . |
| 7 | Lump sum Convalescence Benefit — £20 per day , also tax-free — for a period of up to one year , payable on discharge when a hospital stay is 21 days or more . |
| 8 | The random switching pattern is ideal for use when a property is unoccupied . |
| 9 | Anthony Scrivener referred to the Bill as unique in jurisprudence because a defendant can be guilty of the aggravated offence even though he does no other act than commit the basic offence , and the event which makes the crime aggravated is outside his or her control . |
| 10 | Again , the Zuwaya did not base their genealogy solely on brotherhood : some groups were written in , recruited for instance when a group had insufficient members by natural means ; some were brought in by marriage ; one major section ( Muftah ) was related as half-brothers ( through their mother ) to Shuaghr , who were related as half-brothers ( through their father ) to the other sections of the Zuwaya . |
| 11 | It is a novelist 's trick , useful for recognition when a character is used in a series of stones : it is also properly matched to the portrait of a youth who is intelligent but not physically impressive . |
| 12 | The upper wing was as bare of fabric as a garden gate . |
| 13 | T. D. We had a CC , Plymouth Bill we called him — and he had a force in Plymouth that was n't as great in numbers as a division in Liverpool . |
| 14 | The main argument for a separate Ministry , more extensive in range than a Department of Legal Administration , is that the regulatory functions of the Home Office : the maintenance of public order , the strength of the police , the operation of the prisons and the penal system , immigration control and extradition , create unavoidable conflicts with the promotion of justice . |
| 15 | And the Milton Keynes-based Motor Insurers ' Bureau , which is responsible for compensation when a driver 's uninsured , says that it wo n't pay up either because Gooch was n't wholly to blame . |
| 16 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ said Liese , who was now engaged to a nice young architect called Leonard , and who was proud and plump and stuffed as full of delight as a feather cushion — over-stuffed , Brenda remarked ‘ I suppose it 's better to believe in something than nothing . |
| 18 | and as full of suspense as a wasp . |
| 19 | Because , look at , I 'm not , you know , I 'm not er gon na even talk about the disaster at airport things , you know , the taking off and landing , if you 've got a stadium nearby with a lot of people in it , and one of these disasters happened to happen , I know we 're not looking for that , but if it does , you 're gon na have a stadium full of people if a plane comes down , well , you know . |
| 20 | Sea animals take full advantage of the efficient passage of sound through water , and the ocean is as full of sound as a woodland in spring . |
| 21 | The criterion for deciding whether to extend these powers is if ‘ such responsibilities are important to safety as a whole ’ ( Article 91a ) , or the ‘ maintenance of legal and economic unity ’ ( Article 72.2.3 ) . |
| 22 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 23 | Firstly , the results may simply be due to chance since a search for clusters is likely to reveal some spatial aggregations of cases even if there is no causal explanation : this is particularly true if the age groups , areas , calendar periods , and diagnostic groups to be studied are not specified in advance . |
| 24 | I mean what what gives you more right to life than an animal does ? |
| 25 | If this is not the case the design may have to be taken nearer to completion before an estimator can provide tentative figures . |
| 26 | Bacteria which normally divide and reproduce themselves every twenty minutes can also form themselves into environmentally resistant spores capable of lying dormant , even entombed in rock , for maybe millions of years before a change of circumstance permits their release with continued growth and reproduction . |
| 27 | This is important because it is directly relevant to understanding the mechanism of a type of eruption not yet observed at first hand by any human being , but one that would make the Mt Pelee eruption pale into insignificance if an example were to occur today . |
| 28 | So , but where I know it is a bit difficult with clothes because a market stall erm you do n't , you do n't normally get a chance to try the clothes on erm and you 're never absolutely sure are these clothes , is this garment going to fit or not ? |
| 29 | The phenomenon is especially common in theft when a charge would have been more appropriately brought under s.15 , obtaining property by deception . |
| 30 | Joined using binding off , a welt knitted separately should feel the same in wear as a welt knitted at the same time as the garment piece . |