Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is obvious that you can not out of a joint get the sauceboat full which usually appears on the table . |
| 2 | Or have you of a sudden found a cure for this wasting disease ? ’ |
| 3 | We must not let the public pessimism of a few destroy the optimism of many . |
| 4 | As one lecturer put it , ‘ I do n't want one of my students working for a first to have the achievement marred because it was ‘ only a 1.2 ’ . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When we were looking around for a royal to open the centre , we were promised as soon as someone was available for a royal visit , we would get one , ’ said Peter Carberry , chairman of Darlington Mind . |
| 6 | In 1978 , Gary Player had birdied the hole for a 64 to set the target , but Watson , needing a par to tie , hooked from the tee and his second shot scuttled off the left edge of the green from where there is little chance of getting down in two more . |
| 7 | The scales on the lower half of the body carry black marks which show up as a black patterning the intensity of which depends on the fish 's mood and condition . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , certain landlords tend to abuse rights of access and as a first step the tenant should ensure that the right is subject to reasonable notice and may only be exercised at reasonable times , except of course in cases of emergency . |
| 9 | It is er er the police auth authorities are would not be robust to changes of government , they would not be responsive to the leads of local people as expressed through their elected members and the er the Government 's proposals are inadequate as a final remind the Committee that at second reading thirty f er five out of thirty seven speakers spoke against largely against th the tenor of the Bill with er er wi with with various reservations o of all kinds . |
| 10 | THERE will be another feather in the cap for Stirling County 's pioneering youth policy this weekend as a stand-off makes the grade at the highest level . |
| 11 | She wondered whether she would find enough to discuss with a stranger to fill the evening . |
| 12 | Pressure for multiple units has been alleviated by making the 09.25 summer Saturday Birmingham to Pwllheli loco-hauled with a 31 providing the motive power . |
| 13 | I do n't know how many kids he has ( Faldo has two , with a third expected the week of the Masters ) but I find it amazing he can combine both ways of life . |
| 14 | The driver tapped it nervously with a forefinger to guide the man 's eyes to it . |
| 15 | For the last year Archie , under doctor 's orders has been unable to work , but hopes to get back on his feet within a few following an operation . |
| 16 | Not one candidate in a hundred gives an answer comparable with this ; students regularly fail to consider what it is exactly that A suspects . |
| 17 | In a third attack a driver was tied into his van loaded with explosives and was forced to drive to an Army base in Omagh , but the detonator failed to activate the device . |
| 18 | In a third run the computer started with : GEWRGZRPBCTPGQMCKHFDBGW ZCCF and reached METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL in 41 generations of selective " breeding " . |
| 19 | Each time the lighter went about on to a new tack the ballast had to be shifted to the windward side of the boat . |
| 20 | Dry manager Leroy Richardson was frogmarched to a safe containing the weekend 's takings . |
| 21 | Thus sometimes a trader will agree to give credit to a minor providing an adult ( usually a parent ) signs a document guaranteeing the minor 's debt . |
| 22 | So if all this poses a threat to a 19-year-old getting a job , something is wrong as it 's still quite obvious that employers prefer people with no ties . |
| 23 | On Oct. 8 the German Bundestag approved at a first reading the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty on condition that it be given the final say over the introduction of a single European currency in the final stage of European monetary union ( EMU ) . |
| 24 | Eoghan O'Connell compiled a three-under par total of 137 with a 68 followed by a 69 to take the medal as leading qualifier , while Andrew Hare qualified on 148 . |
| 25 | In the space of four weeks , not only has the car been broken into , but the Health Centre has been robbed of computer hardware for our new cardiovascular screening programme , I have been threatened with violence in my consulting-room for refusing to prescribe opiates and my home has been burgled at 5.00 am by a seventeen-year-old wielding a club hammer . |
| 26 | By a 6:3 vote the court overturned a pair of decisions from 1987 and 1989 which had excluded " victim impact " evidence — concerning the character of the victim and the suffering of their survivors — from juries which were considering imposing the death penalty . |