Example sentences of "['s] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had , apparently , ridden in around dawn , after a hectic escape from the battlefield 's carnage , the Steward 's right arm in a sling . |
| 2 | However , there was no doubt that , despite Owen 's low salary as a lecturer in philosophy at Columbia University , and the fact that they had two small children to clothe and feed , her cousin and her husband were amazingly happy and contented together . |
| 3 | Such overcrowded conditions , together with my father 's low salary as a teacher , were probably as important factors as my own abilities in my being considered a suitable case for rescue . |
| 4 | Esther 's strange allusion to a hornet 's nest ? |
| 5 | It was a frightful time , people were dying and dying — how could one hang on , she asked herself , to one 's private plan for a life ? |
| 6 | Joan was ushered into the king 's private chamber by a manservant who had been with him since infancy . |
| 7 | He established the ‘ Kensington system ’ , by which Victoria should be suitably educated as heir presumptive to the Crown , her mother should be created regent if the king died before Victoria was eighteen , Conroy should be appointed Victoria 's private secretary with a peerage , and a rival court should develop at Kensington , cut off from William IV 's Tory politics and morals . |
| 8 | Shares in Carlton slumped by 20p to 832p on news of the sale which leaves Mr Green 's private company with a holding of around 5.3million shares . |
| 9 | The real area of difficulty is based on whether an express clause can validly protect information which does not fall within the Court of Appeal 's narrow definition of a trade secret . |
| 10 | Ochirbat pointed to South Korea 's economic development as a model for Mongolia . |
| 11 | Gordon Brown , the shadow chancellor , tried to flesh out his party 's economic philosophy with a paper underlining Labour 's break with public ownership . |
| 12 | She sang a couple of verses of Jingle Bells to Greek-born doctor Andy Tzakis , who led the surgical team which performed Laura 's double-transplant operation in a Pittsburgh hospital . |
| 13 | Mary Norton 's classic story about a family of miniature humans who live under the floorboards of a house has been adapted for the small screen and starts tomorrow ( BBC1 , 5.40pm ) . |
| 14 | Directed by Tony Hegarty For one night only , prior to opening in London , Commonwheal ‘ Exciting and revelatory … a true ensemble ’ Daily Mail , bring their new version of Marlowe 's classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power . |
| 15 | Docherty 's prodigious talent as a footballer and a disciplinarian flowered in the late '40s during his National Service . |
| 16 | We assume that prominence of various degrees and kinds provides the basis for a reader 's subjective recognition of a style . |
| 17 | Yes , ’ said Joe , as he poured Runner 's unfinished cider into a bottle ready for him the next night , ‘ he 's blessed with a good woman . |
| 18 | Seen from a helicopter it would look like a little lad 's still-wet scribble on a sheet of green paper , winding and erratic ; drawn with a shaky hand . |
| 19 | One of them has in fact already opened just downtown in Arata Isosaki 's renovated space in a building at the corner of Prince Street and Broadway in the heart ( perhaps a more appropriate word would be bowels ) of SoHo . |
| 20 | What is the name of the NRM 's working replica of a Gooch broad gauge single ? |
| 21 | George Foreman , whose comeback as the roly-poly , cheeseburger contender has helped to hasten heavyweight boxing 's descent towards something dangerously close to the wide world of wrestling , recognised Lewis 's devastating performance as a sea change in the game . |
| 22 | Cabrera 's possible detection of a monopole last year aroused a great deal of excitement , but at the same time raised the question of why he had succeeded , where the many other experimental searches had failed . |
| 23 | Spindly creatures barely 18ins tall , fertilised with optimism , they formed a picket line 150ft long up the garden 's steep slope to a field of grazing horses . |
| 24 | And on Friday he went to London 's High Court in a bid to stop a newspaper from interviewing the owner of the property , wealthy Jackie Ralli . |
| 25 | There is a strong Catholic presence in the Veneto region and , despite Bonito Oliva 's high standing as a critic ( he was recently dubbed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government ) , this element did not favour the appointment of a man recently involved in public displays of exhibitionist behaviour . |
| 26 | I mean , Dave 's high point as a guitarist is definitely his rhythm work . ’ |
| 27 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 28 | Many television viewers were alarmed at the Forest boss 's ageing appearance on a BBC interview this week , and Clough admitted yesterday : ‘ My wife , Barbara , has told me that I 've got uglier and older . |
| 29 | Evidence emerged in July of an illicit operation by a Polish government agency to buy back the country 's foreign debt at a discount , as Poland discussed resheduling its debt repayments to Western banks . |
| 30 | Roebuck , moved a famous and extremely detailed vote of censure on Palmerston 's foreign policy over a period of two decades , 2,000 – 3,000 volumes of manuscript correspondence were consulted by officials in the government 's attempt to produce a convincing rebuttal . |