Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , Burnell goes as a dependable foot soldier and Wright as a tight-head who proved his versatility by scrummaging so solidly at loose-head against Jeff Probyn . |
| 2 | Each counsellor goes through a 10-week training programme , says Marian Radford , the counselling manager . |
| 3 | At that entrance , every ship goes through a painstaking security check examination right down to molecular level , which can seem endless . |
| 4 | It was part of my planning to use this day to catch up with the vast mound of paperwork , documentation of seizures and reports , which always accumulates after a successful revenue operation . |
| 5 | One building stands as a lone design example in the middle of a prepared expensive living area . |
| 6 | Rainbow gets the show back on the road , and tries to give herself a little holiday from auntly interventions by searching the radio bands for a local traffic report . |
| 7 | Initial ICD systems were capable of delivering up to four 25–30 J countershocks between a coiled spring electrode ( to maximise surface area ) placed at the superior vena cava/right atrium ( SVC-RA ) junction and a mesh patch electrode placed over the cardiac apex by thoracotomy . |
| 8 | What starts as a straightforward health issue can turn out to be an important medicolegal examination with implications subsequently at trial . |
| 9 | Vigorous exercise for 20 minutes three times a week will approximately halve your chances of coronary thrombosis , as will getting rid of your spare tyre , cooperating with treatment for your raised blood pressure , and giving up smoking — even if the experience counts as a major life stress ! |
| 10 | When a child looks for a particular size box or a piece of material of a certain colour or texture , he is taking early steps towards sorting . |
| 11 | IT 'S THE nightmare that everyone who lives near a big airport dreads . |
| 12 | After starting out a special interest magazine , Skin 2 now looks like a mainstream style mag ( sometimes you feel it ca n't be long before S&M will make it into M&S ) . |
| 13 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 14 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 15 | ‘ Looks like a brilliant street party , ’ said one young man . |
| 16 | It was built with the characteristic ostentation of the period , and looks like a Victorian town hall with a chimney . |
| 17 | Singer Nick Jarvis , resplendent in what looks like a blonde Beatle wig , wrenches tunes from his Rickenbacker that tell of an adolescence spent listening to The Beatles and The Byrds . |
| 18 | Singer Nick Jarvis , resplendent in what looks like a blonde Beatle wig , wrenches tunes from his Rickenbacker that tell of an adolescence spent listening to The Beatles and The Byrds . |
| 19 | To be frank , Concert Series looks like a good marketing ploy rather than a serious answer to the font numbering problem because not even Suitcase can handle all the fonts simultaneously . |
| 20 | Jones & Smith looks like a simple theft case and the defendants should be so charged . |
| 21 | The other is a slim footbridge carried on the piers of what looks like a former railway viaduct . |
| 22 | That 's what I thought , I thought you know fuck looks like a bloody comic shop for a change . |
| 23 | A flea market along the Dijver , one of the main canals , takes place on Saturday and Sunday from March to October but looks like a real tourist trap . |
| 24 | Monaco has produced yet more mirror glass , with a doll 's house Georgian faade , Pakistan something that looks like a pretentious curry house in Southall . |
| 25 | The legwork takes place in the library 's core , where video and audio tapes are stacked in what looks like a multi-store car park . |
| 26 | Hendrix performed his end of the festival set under what looks like a makeshift tarpaulin stage and the band , his largest ever , seems to be swelled by all sorts of hangers-on , stage hands wandering aimlessly on and offstage . |
| 27 | You go up some steps to a reception area , from where you have a clear view down into the clean kitchen , then down some steps into a dining room that looks like a well-lit Tube tunnel . |
| 28 | Some years ago a humbucker was designed for Gibson that has a base plate which looks like a printed circuit board . |
| 29 | He is not said to have been holy , and looks like a successful career churchman , often occupied with the king 's business , and willing to contravene church law by practising pluralism . |
| 30 | Encrusted with statues , pillars , and reliefs , it looks like a huge wedding cake in stone . |