Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sense , the shunt element behaves in its stabilising work rather as a Zener diode behaves , but the analogy must not be pressed too far . |
| 2 | Potted crab is very rich in flavour as well as in content , and is best appreciated quite on its own , perhaps as a midday dish served only with crisp dry toast , to be followed by a simple lettuce salad or freshly cooked green beans or purple-sprouting broccoli eaten when barely cold , with an oil and lemon dressing . |
| 3 | Small enough for a coach party to whip through in half an hour , but good enough to occupy the more patient visitor for an afternoon or more , the princely town house stands beside a broad pond in the heart of the city . |
| 4 | Indeed , 12 promising assistant managers are being selected annually for a development programme designed to prepare them for promotion to general managers . |
| 5 | It is a rare example of a Scottish company that went to the edge in the early 1980s ( Lord Tombs of Rolls-Royce was brought in as a company doctor to turn it around ) and emerge stronger on the other side as well as maintaining Scottish roots . |
| 6 | Minutes later McCluskey supplied the final pass to launch centre Alan Hunter in for a second Portadown try at the posts , leaving Brown to convert again to finally kill off Armagh 's stubborn challenge . |
| 7 | Plummer bellowed , watching gloomily as a body punch brought down his fighter 's guard and a thunderous uppercut lifted him off his feet and sent him crashing to the canvas . |
| 8 | The effect of this rule is that the fixed percentage or the amount of the notional pool is specified in the scheme , but the amount of the distributable pool can be determined only after a profit period has ended . |
| 9 | One middle-aged woman whose husband died suddenly of a heart attack reacted with a storm of sexual behaviour with a succession of younger men . |
| 10 | When Superintendent Pumfrey arrived , charging in like a drill sergeant-major bursting in on some particularly slack recruits , he found the local Cullbridge Police already well into the routine work , with the Crumwallises fussing around upstairs and downstairs , vocal but ineffectual . |
| 11 | Rodney James Chapman , a director of the company , asked an industrial tribunal to lift the prohibition notice , but the tribunal upheld it except for a small area where the quarry might be worked but only under a safety system agreed by and worked out with the Inspectorate . |
| 12 | The new Conservative leader Mrs Thatcher , was finding it hard to assert herself , especially with a Shadow Cabinet consisting largely of followers of the defeated Edward Heath . |
| 13 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 14 | Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil . |
| 15 | What should you do when your partner comes in with a £500 stereo purchased on the Visa card , and you know that there are no funds to pay the bill when it arrives — ignore it ? |
| 16 | The organisers say kite-flying is a green sport and the event ties in with a workshop course run for local schoolchildren on the arts and the environment . |
| 17 | BSDI lawyers went on the offensive last week circulating court documents among the press along with a press release slamming the USL suit as ‘ harassing and frivolous ’ and harbouring ‘ chilling overtones for the computer software industry . ’ |
| 18 | Four weeks of TV ads begin on January 20 , along with a colour press push which will start at the end of the month . |
| 19 | Underbonnet Protection — Every underbonnet component is protected by a zinc/chrome/nickel layer , along with a wax spray applied after assembly and an oil-based protective coating on the exterior of the engine to ensure no damage occurs before delivery . |
| 20 | A direct-out three-pin XLR is accompanied by two push switches for selecting pre or post EQ out , along with a ground lift to eradicate earth loops when DI'ing . |
| 21 | This much is established in the play , but , unable to think of a suitable ending , Perry anticipates the events to come by aborting the drama prematurely with a radio cut written into the script . |
| 22 | It could , for example , make a residence order in favour of the child 's grandmother together with a contact order regulating contact between the child and his parents and a specific issue order resolving a dispute over the child 's education . |
| 23 | A vintage horse-drawn tram from Sheffield , complete with horse , is shown in a dramatic Victorian Street setting of 1885 , together with a steam tram dating from the same year , and a steam tram trailer — representing the next stage in the development of this form of transport . |
| 24 | Each month we send the business a statement detailing all transactions on each card issued , together with a summary statement showing the total amount outstanding . |
| 25 | Spread on to the cake drum , blending the colours together with a palette knife to create a sea effect . |
| 26 | In the very first episode I did , we fitted that onto a wobbling camera tracking in ( today you 'd call it a hand-held shot ) and , together with a sucker cup sticking out into shot , it gave you an impression of the thing lumbering towards Barbara down a passage . |
| 27 | During his nearly three years as effective day-to-day leader of the Cultural Revolution , Chen , along with Jiang Qing and Mao 's security chief Kang Sheng , helped orchestrate campaigns of vilification and persecution against thousands of party cadres , including the then head of state Liu Shaoqi , who later died alone in a bank vault used as a cell . |
| 28 | Which megastar was about to beamed in from a Hollywood poolside to give a transatlantic Tory thumbs up ? |
| 29 | Then she replaced it and went over to see to Mrs Mitchell who lay on the top of the bed dressed only in a calico nightgown groaning as she writhed about . |
| 30 | For a while their favourite game was wheeling along in a cart Endill had made until Wednesday crashed into a mound of rusty bicycles and hurt his arm . |