Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She competed successfully for a post-doctoral research fellowship at one of the less fashionable women 's colleges . |
| 2 | I mean I do that with a , you know when I 'm sort of on about a long delivery talk about |
| 3 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 4 | At a recent CIT Metropolitan Section meeting , Brian Cox , MD of Stagecoach Rail , suggested a National Ticket Office through which tickets could be sold , presumably through a nationwide computer facility . |
| 5 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 6 | With Horton and his assistant David Moss gone … the search is on for a new management team … what happens now … that 's what managing director Keith Cox has got to decide |
| 7 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 8 | He has now been accepted for a transplant operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the search is on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 9 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 10 | It is not surprising that Dr L regarded the humanities with some contempt , arguing that students go to sign on for a medieval history course in the arts faculty and |
| 11 | I 'm now looked on as a one parent family . |
| 12 | Watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy , Stuart did get on as a 64th minute substitute , but added : ‘ It seems everyone else gets straight back into the side after injury except me . |
| 13 | The 19-stone prop , cleared by the French RU Federation , went on as a second half replacement and played for almost half an hour . |
| 14 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 15 | Moreover , the inverse intensity of N-Oct 5 bands seen with the different expression constructs argue against the proteolytic processing mechanism but rather for a different transcript structure that affects accessibility of the AUG translation initiation sequences . |
| 16 | Fl Lt McNally was one of nine members of the RAF crew killed when the plane , went down during a low-level training exercise in the Grampians two weeks ago . |
| 17 | Some have argued that this policy of ambiguity and delay reflected wishful thinking on his part , a misguided belief that he could somehow parlay his personal standing with all parties into a new consensus that would hold the communities together long enough for a French-financed modernization programme to work its magic . |
| 18 | Sam pulled the door open and we looked into the scene that was all too familiar to my eyes ; an expanse of muddy water , the hole in the ceiling overhead and the curtain of iron mesh across the exit to the river ; a dock big enough for a moderate-sized cabin cruiser or three or four smaller boats . |
| 19 | Still , Mel was good enough for a first team place in our first year back and did OK . |
| 20 | He and Mackay put on 97 in 72 minutes , extending Australia 's total to 348 , which proved enough for a seven wicket victory after West Indies failed to avoid the follow-on . |
| 21 | DO N'T WORRY IF YOUR WALLET IS N'T FAT ENOUGH FOR A READY-MADE LAN STATION . |
| 22 | However , the colour quality is not good enough for a conventional printing system to reproduce , what that needs is colour separations . |
| 23 | Under the existing law , these United Kingdom citizens can vote in British and EC parliamentary elections only through a complicated registration procedure , which allows voting only by proxy ( difficult to arrange and flouting the whole principle of a secret ballot ) . |
| 24 | He got in through a half-closed larder window . |
| 25 | The story is similar in other areas , with an older organization or group of charities coming together as a local Family Welfare Association . |
| 26 | For Hollywood seems to understand the word ‘ pan ’ only as a horizontal camera movement . |
| 27 | For Hollywood seems to understand the word ‘ pan ’ only as a horizontal camera movement . |
| 28 | Now , in a mood of heady exhilaration , a delicious scenario flashed in his mind ; the school drop-out , on his way to take delivery of his own Jumbo Jet , literally dropping back in during a First XI cricket match with two of the most celebrated test cricketers in the world in tow . |
| 29 | All these groups are concerned that the EC should develop organically as a co-operative trading bloc and not as a bureaucratic United States of Europe . |
| 30 | MOTORIST Steve Hopwood was turned down for a disabled parking pass — even though he has only one arm and one leg . |