Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a five-hour descent down a treacherous ridge , she and her two sherpa guides reached the relative safety of the expedition 's Camp Four at 26,000ft . |
| 2 | Thus , we have chemical control — albeit naturally derived — of a chemical contaminant not a biological one , and probably the first recorded instance . |
| 3 | While some of the same satirical zest is evident in The Bed Sitting Room ( 1969 ) , Lester 's chronicle of a post-holocaust world where a stunned Ralph Richardson imagines he is turning into a bedsitter and a doctor tries to keep the old traditions alive by having someone read the BBC News , and the film shows evidence of a superabundant imagination , the narrative is too unfocused for the satirical barbs to hit home , and the result is often tedious to watch . |
| 4 | But on the right an area of a high count where a great deal more of vessels are present . |
| 5 | But when scientific method is employed to keep the work of sociology along the lines of a growing discipline then a close relationship between theory , hypothesis and facts must be maintained . |
| 6 | Here it might have been wise for Parliament to have set out a comprehensive code staking out the borderline between the demands of a fair trial and those of a free press whenever a contempt was committed through the medium of a particular case . |
| 7 | Mr. Langley submitted that , under the plain terms of the statute , it was the Bank and the Bank alone who were empowered to make the necessary judgment , with no interposition ( as in some other statutes ) of a judicial officer e.g. a commissioner in relation to certain statutory powers of the revenue . |
| 8 | When their fighting ceased , she sat astride his chest , gradually sliding down to his toes like a small girl down a banister . |
| 9 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 10 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 11 | He can weigh up non scientific considerations in his decision , such as the effect of staff morale and relations with SLAC , but Bienenstock is hoping for a scientific solution not a political or philosophical one . |
| 12 | The ticket office , which has been branded an eyesore , was opened as a temporary measure over a year ago in preparation for the station 's £1m refurbishment . |
| 13 | Lack of time has been cited as a possible reason why a new set of criteria put before the world governing body 's council in Tokyo last year failed to come up for discussion . |
| 14 | Meat should not be eaten more than once a day ; and fish is increasingly thought of as healthier — oily fish is useful in the prevention of heart disease and arthritis — and you may feel it is worth substituting fish for meat as a main meal twice a week . |
| 15 | Then we would n't have this nonsense of having to get our meat through a Christian butcher twice a week . |
| 16 | We could clinch a play-off place with a good run yet a lot of fans appear to have written off our season . |
| 17 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 18 | If all context-tables are combined into a single library then a change in the properties of a context can be effected just by changing its context-specification within the library . |
| 19 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 20 | This was in due course designated Iraq Pipeline Saudi Arabia No 1 ( IPSA-1 ) as distinct from a later scheme whereby a separate and entirely Iraqi line to handle 1.6 million b/d duplicating Petroline was to be built and called IPSA-2.6 Basrah Light crude became available to Iraq 's customers again from 28–29 September 1985 . |
| 21 | Kurt , 25 , says : ‘ I 've fallen asleep in a live show quite a few times . |
| 22 | Th this company must be in a bloody sight worse a mess than we thought and the government are not letting us know this is what they 're look for are scapegoats and they they 're . |
| 23 | Arrangements are being made , we are informed , for those of us who , oddly enough , prefer to have our correspondence marked with its specific place of origin , to deposit our post in a wee box up a close or in a back street away from the main mail collection points . |
| 24 | It happened in a rural Branch not a million miles from the Western seaboard of Ireland . |
| 25 | The charming old town of Riva nestles snugly in a tranquil position where a splendid curtain of mountains forms the backdrop . |
| 26 | Although the share of state borrowing in total company finance has recently been relatively small at about 10 per cent , in a qualitative sense even a small loan by a state institution carries a seal of approval that enormously enhances the standing of companies with their banks . |
| 27 | If the ferreting is in a confined space then a 4.10 is a useful weapon . |
| 28 | ‘ In 1809 he won the Society of Arts gold medals , having planted in a single year over a million larches and other forest trees ’ — he planted for posterity . |
| 29 | The Goigama paid their Hena " retainers " in a formal gift-giving once a year . |
| 30 | She died three years ago in a tragic fall down a flight of stairs . |