Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lens , which is really only part of a compound lens system , is responsible for the variable part of the focusing . |
| 2 | On June 25 the Court ruled by five to four ( with O'Connor voting with the liberals ) to strike down part of a Minnesota law which required pregnant minors to notify both parents prior to obtaining an abortion . |
| 3 | George had got the deposit ready for a house and made the first down payment on a dining suite . |
| 4 | Only 10% of a USM company 's securities need be in public hands , as opposed to 25% for listed companies . |
| 5 | It gives great gloss to wild wet looks and is great value at only £1.09 for a 125ml tube . |
| 6 | The sharp-dressed singer , who 's at No. 37 with Me And Mrs Jones , spent more than £1,000 in stores during a recent visit to London — only days after a £2,000 clothes spree in New York . |
| 7 | However such farmers were necessarily exceptions within a farming community where shortening bush/fallow cycles were retained ; they did not provide a solution to the underlying problem . |
| 8 | Even though Windows NT has not yet been released , 37% of the 1,000 or so participants in a Dun survey at UniForum believe NT will offer benefits not yet available under Unix . |
| 9 | At only £1.50 for a learning book and 75p for the accompanying workbook , the entire volume of thirty books costs just £33.75 . |
| 10 | Viewing familiar issues in an unfamiliar setting was like fitting together pieces of a jig-saw puzzle which separates individual details and personalities from the root causes and effects of the problems . |
| 11 | But within days ( i ) a bill arrives for £2.5m to pay off the former DLO employees ; ( ii ) the borough treasury suddenly lights upon a £6.5m deficit left over from 1987-88 ; and ( iii ) up pop £21m of debt repayments , mostly the result of deferred-payment agreements — glorified hire purchase — entered into when Whitehall started rate-capping in the mid-1980s . |
| 12 | Students fill in diaries on a rota basis , with regular cross referencing to check on the accuracy of the entries . |
| 13 | He mixed her a dry martini from a collection of decanters on a silver tray — nothing so arriviste as a drinks cupboard or private bar — set on a small table . |
| 14 | Taxi rides are cheapest in Portugal , where the cabbies charge only 18p for a one-mile city trip . |
| 15 | So fraction of a circle fraction of a circle this is going to be one third times three sixty or we could say number of degrees here , fraction of a circle as number of degrees . |
| 16 | Someone , something , moved in the dark shadows by the empty fire-grate , filled in summer with a copper jug stuffed full of artificial flowers . |
| 17 | All the loveliness , all the things they could do , on the shore , in the water , exploring the heathland , and they sit above the road breathing in fumes with a plastic bottle for a plaything . |
| 18 | One of the excitements of the auction business is never knowing what the post may bring ; perhaps photographs of a Renaissance jewel in Alabama , or a Paul de Lamerie soup tureen in Iowa . |
| 19 | It is quite a good idea to take along samples to a radio interview . |
| 20 | six or seven times when I walked down Tesco on a lunch time on my own , they 're always at the end one , so I suppose they could get in and out , but they 're lovely kids some of them |
| 21 | The three standing stones of Lundin Links in Fife now watch over play on a golf course , though without providing any additional hazard . |
| 22 | If you are not part of a discussion group you can still represent your parish at the Diocesan Assembly and become involved in local and Diocesan events that develop from there . |
| 23 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 24 | FA Cup Final fever may be dissipating but excitement is only just beginning to mount over plans for a croquet centre of excellence . |
| 25 | Candidate requirements such as particular skills or personality are not normally part of a job description . |
| 26 | In general , this was nut normally part of a shopping-around process which led to selection of a particularly advantageous form of credit . |
| 27 | Today they 're just ruins in a Paris suburb , it 's hard to imagine what these roman baths looked like when they were new . |
| 28 | Only a trickle of progress reports have so far found their way back to Buckinghamshire 's education department , but they confirm the trend nationally of a poor overall response and turnout confined principally to a hardcore of parents , generally stalwarts of a school parent-teacher association . |
| 29 | I mean last year some , some of them did just sort of a paper exercise whereby the |
| 30 | In addition , member states are allowed to exempt from the notification requirement what are termed ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ if they do not use the securities acquired to interfere in the company 's management ; the expression ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ may be confined to market makers ( as under the 1985 Companies Act ) but the expression does seem wide enough to include own account dealers as well and this is supported by the fact that the exemption applies even to professional dealers who are not members of a stock exchange , provided that they are authorised or supervised by a competent authority ( an investment bank , for example ) . |