Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four thousand years ago a funeral pyre like this one was built for a woman who was either heavily pregnant or recently delivered of a child . |
| 2 | But , if they can play as indifferently as this and still win by a record margin , then the Gods are obviously with them . |
| 3 | Mary was pensioned off soon after this and now lives in a rage in Malta , where it is feared she is writing her memoirs . |
| 4 | Branches and trunks of trees become wet and then encased in a film of ice . |
| 5 | Felicity Bushell ( Mrs Secretan ) was widowed in 1985 and now works as a freelance medical editor . |
| 6 | We may mean by ‘ reliable ’ that a suitable method , if properly followed , is perfectly reliable and never leads to a false belief . |
| 7 | Strongly stereotypical Creole features should be salient and positively valued as a symbol of identity , so we would expect these particular features of Creole to be accommodated to by everyone who attempts to engage in " chattin' Patois " . |
| 8 | The government and its supporters eventually accepted this but then insisted on a 75 per cent majority applying to regional issues , including the country 's future status as a unitary or a federal state . |
| 9 | Same Time , Next Year is a lively , humorous account of a developing relationship , at first sexual but later broadening into a touching tenderness , of two people long married to others , who meet once every year in a California motel for what used to be called ‘ a dirty weekend ’ . |
| 10 | The radial shields are large , longer than broad , sometimes contiguous but usually separated by a single row of plates . |
| 11 | To the uninitiated that roughly translates as a drinking establishment with thumping rock music and brash videos crammed with hordes of fun-seekers . |
| 12 | The first fear , the first knowledge that involvement was real and personal and far distanced from a glass of beer and a sandwich in a pub across the Thames . |
| 13 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 14 | Cos in one respect I 'd rather do what I think is enough but er than too much and then feel like a bloated little |
| 15 | So-called chain migration , where one relative gets established and then acts as a bridge for others , is a common feature of many situations both in the past and the present , where people migrate to find work . |
| 16 | THE long-overdue reform of Britain 's national health service ( NHS ) started on April 1st and quickly turned into a shouting-match . |
| 17 | In the centre was Biisk , an ostrog on the Biya river , built in 1718 and later enlarged into a fortress , while at the opposite end lay Ust-Kamenogorsk , established in 1720 . |
| 18 | Talbot looked at Dr Wickram who , in startling contrast to Benson , was thin , dark and immaculately dressed in a blue suit , white button-down collar and a black tie , the funereal hue of which went rather well with the habitual severity of his expression , and said : ‘ Does your interest in nuclear physics extend to nuclear weaponry , Dr Wickram ? ’ |
| 19 | The term " morula " is imprecise but generally refers to a compact aggregate of blastomeres ( Figure 1 , panels 21 , 22 ) . |
| 20 | Behind and to her right , impassive but occasionally smiling at a legal point , Richard Ingrams sat on his own . |
| 21 | The first female Poor Law Guardian was elected in Kensington in 1875 and immediately appointed to a district relief committee and to the workhouse visiting committee , having the special responsibility of supervising the female scrubbers and washers . |
| 22 | A new Constitution , which was drawn up in late 1986 and overwhelmingly approved in a referendum in February 1987 , provided for presidential elections to be held in November 1987 . |
| 23 | This charming villa was spacious and comfortably furnished with a well-stocked library ; the large garden ran down to the lake where there was both a motor boat and a sailing boat . |
| 24 | In any case Napoleon III was not worried by Austria ; economically weak and diplomatically isolated as a result of her erratic policy during the Crimean War , she was no threat to France . |
| 25 | He would be in his early fifties , was tall and well built with a craggy face . |
| 26 | He may dodge that and instead go for a big money battle against London 's Colin McMillan , the WBO world champion , who was at ringside . |
| 27 | The professional literature on violence is extensive and usually refers to a complex interaction of factors which have to be taken into account to explain its occurrence . |
| 28 | He did not mention Labour and even refrained from a sneer at the opinion pollsters . |
| 29 | The casual shooting of a chimpanzee or a horse is surely regarded as more reprehensible than routinely stepping on a beetle or laying a trap for mice . |
| 30 | They will both work hard and urgently to carry to a successful conclusion , if they can , the two processes of which they are in charge — the peace conference at The Hague and the prospects for a UN peacekeeping force . |