Example sentences of "[adj] and [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring the bargaining strengths of both parties , there is no clear reason why a vendor should be willing to agree to this and as a matter of practice should establish the order of priority of satisfaction of liabilities within the terms and conditions of the sale agreement . |
| 2 | It comes in sizes S , M , L and XL and at a cost of just £6.75 is an affordable way to thrust yourself into the very forefront of the 1990's fashion ! |
| 3 | Finally , the multimedia system would have an altogether different view , this time of a body of text embedded throughout with handles linking text segments to one another and to a range of externally stored texts , images , and recordings . |
| 4 | Theorizing and debate about law-breaking and law enforcement have been premised on a model of the criminal actor as individual and on a conception of enforcement as practised by a uniformed and public police . |
| 5 | The company was fined 2,000 and as a result of that conviction and the Health and Safety Executive 's ( HSE ) recommendations additional safety precautions were introduced on the assembly line which were not , however , extended to the testing process at the Newton Aycliffe plant . |
| 6 | Anne seemed to be scarcely listening and at a sound from her mother dashed back to her side , followed by Sarah and Mrs Bennet . |
| 7 | we witness his growth and personal development , times when he is content and in a lot of cases not content , he relationships with friends and people around him ( and how they get along together ) , but also we see how money and wealth can affect a little boy 's life so suddenly and drastically . |
| 8 | With production set to double by 1995 and against a background of firmer oil prices , we are well placed for the decade ahead . |
| 9 | Being on soft peat land , digging was easy and at a depth of three feet we found a two inch cylindrical piece of metal . |
| 10 | Glycollic acid could be a precursor for the petrochemical feedstock , ethylene glycol but it is also a useful chemical in its own right , serving as a descalent and as a mordant in the dyeing industry . |
| 11 | As such , it is not at odds with the ‘ litmus-test ’ of self-advocacy , seeming to support a view of people as potentially autonomous and with a right to self-determination within a less restrictive social milieu . |
| 12 | Barrow grew from a single house into a fishing village of some 300 people by the 1840s and into a town of 40,000 people a generation later . |
| 13 | But the Lord Lane I met at Aviemore could hardly have been more different — affable , witty and without a trace of self awareness of his office ; and if I call him Geoffrey here , it is only because after Aviemore we became friends , played the odd round of golf together , exchanged letters and met on several social occasions . |
| 14 | Since gaining independence within the Commonwealth ( as an " independent sovereign state " from 1963 and as a republic from 1967 ) , Uganda has been ruled by regimes dominated first by Milton Obote ( 1962-71 ) and then by Idi Amin ( 1971-79 ) ; Obote was re-elected as President in 1980 in the aftermath of the Tanzanian backed overthrow of Amin the previous year , but was himself overthrown in 1985 . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't look bored and with a dress like that you are certainly not shy … ’ |
| 16 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |
| 17 | Making it rich and like a lily in bloom , |
| 18 | ‘ Both the girl and her boyfriend are extremely upset and in a state of severe shock . |
| 19 | Heavy-eyed , Mungo had fallen asleep and into a thicket of dreams . |
| 20 | However , a thinned shot flies very low and with a lot of run so the chances are it will run straight through the green . |
| 21 | Many shirt manufacturers leave the wings too short and cut the collars too low and without a loop at the back to hold the tie from rising to the top ( or , poor sod , over the top ) of the collar . |
| 22 | The flowing blood was the symbol and proof that life had been taken in payment for the sins of the guilty and as a substitute for his own guilt-stained life . |
| 23 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 24 | Er he wants two two or three coaches for this and that and for a special to Liverpool you see , he 'd need it later that afternoon . |
| 25 | Being deprived of the goals , our desire eats us up and leaves us dissatisfied and with a sense of longing . |
| 26 | Lawrence bowling the last ball of this over and it 's a bouncer and gets underneath it , he 's six , DaSilva is eighteen , it 's a hundred and eighteen for three and after a word for big it will be Brian Johnston . |
| 27 | He was handsome , perhaps twenty-three or four , slim , fine-featured and with a shock of pale brown hair . |
| 28 | He was like the ‘ building blocks ’ to Lennie 's happy life , patient and like a brother to him . |
| 29 | ‘ Everything 's more forward here , ’ she noticed , as they went by a line of horse-chestnut trees that were leafy and about a month in advance of those in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 30 | Daalny stood tense and at a loss for one moment , before she flung herself bodily into the open doorway , as though she feared the door might be slammed again before she could prevent , though Cadfael made no move . |