Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair , which is down to her bum , and a colour of gold one only gets with a little help from Miss Clairol , was an absolute mess from the wind . |
| 2 | Again , the benefits of being landlord , so far as they can enure to an owner who has parted with the property , would only continue for a former landlord who had continuing liability . |
| 3 | The litigation involving the late ex-President Marcos of the Philippines [ see pp. 36428 ; 36893 ] suggested that such immunity did not apply to a former head of state particularly when it was specifically waived by the country from whence he had been deposed . |
| 4 | They included the pop singer Lyn Paul , best known as a former member of the New Seekers , dancer Jane Summerhayes , who appeared on the London stage in A Chorus Line , his secretary Jo-Anne Robinson , another dancer , who was in the musical Billy with him , and dancer Jane Watts , who appeared in Barnum . |
| 5 | In letters , prescriptions , shopping lists , school essays , the reader normally pushes through a once-for-all interpretation of a text which may never be read again . |
| 6 | Senior ministerial posts were also given to a former Environment Minister , Padraig Flynn , and two junior ministers dismissed with Reynolds in November , Maire Geoghegan Quinn and Michael Smith . |
| 7 | If an organisation is market leader and has a size and presence which can ensure that manpower planning is possible so that most jobs can be filled from graduate entry , then the need for an executive search firm is probably limited to a few specialist or technical appointments . |
| 8 | Er I mean that goes back again to the articles which you might have about the way that parents talk to their children , and you quite often find that then very very quickly the children grow up speaking in a same way as the parent of that sex talked to the them . |
| 9 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 10 | Across the oceans , Sotheby 's continues to plug away at the Japanese market with its Print sale in Tokyo , now bolstered by a few nihonga ( Japanese-style ) paintings . |
| 11 | This rationality is well described by a former head of the British civil service , Sir Douglas Allen : ‘ The desire for uniformity of treatment , coupled with accountability for decisions , require elaborate codes and rules so that a multiplicity of decision-makers can produce acceptably similar results in similar cases ’ ( cited in Thomson 1983 : 141 ) . |
| 12 | She was silent for a moment , then said in a more conciliator " tone : |
| 13 | The position is neatly summarized by a former chairman of the British Railways Board , Lord Beeching : |
| 14 | The phenomenon is vividly described by a former chairman of the British Prices and Incomes Board : |
| 15 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |