Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the recent experience of an Economist correspondent flying on an American-owned airline . |
| 2 | Obediently the noise level dropped to a whispered exchange , and Larsen ran his eye over the sea of faces packing the long corridor on either side , trying to pick out his daughter Karen . |
| 3 | CONTINGENCY plans to cope with a serious accident to a nuclear weapon being taken over the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow are flawed , councillors heard yesterday . |
| 4 | Iterated 's focus is on quick decompression techniques , compression itself is relatively lengthy , and even with a custom-built processor board sitting in an 80486 machine , the system will take between 25 and 30 seconds to determine the mathematical functions needed to regenerate each television frame . |
| 5 | To finance the programme the government would allow the federal budget deficit to rise from a projected A$6,800 million in 1992 to A$8,000 million in 1993 . |
| 6 | There is little doubt that their handwriting skills develop at a slower pace than their linguistic skills . |
| 7 | Third , lead isotope values lie in a small coherent field ( ) similar to the Dupal group and quite different from the trend for mid-ocean-ridge and ocean-island basalts . |
| 8 | Malaise and appreciable increases in serum transaminase activities coincided with a marked increase in the number of hepatocytes staining for HDAg and also the first histological appearance of HBcAg ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 9 | These results suggest that ( allowing for the differences in trading hours between markets ) , information from foreign stock markets is reflected in the Finnish index futures market within a few hours , but not in the underlying spot market . |
| 10 | Good reads among the new releases include Dick Francis 's COMEBACK ( Pan , £4.99 ) , his 34th racing thriller and as pacy as ever , Danielle Steel 's NO GREATER LOVE ( Corgi , £4.99 ) about the Winfield family whose lives are changed forever the night the Titanic sinks , and Mary Stewart 's STORMY PETREL ( Coronet , £3.99 ) , an atmospheric suspense story set on a Hebridean island . |
| 11 | During 1979-89 , nitrogen oxide emissions increased by a third from 908,000 to 1,298,000 tonnes , carbon monoxide from 3,992,000 to 5,751,000 tonnes , and hydrocarbons from 490,000 to 762,000 tonnes . |
| 12 | Is not every child whose parents are on income support entitled to a free school meal ? |
| 13 | It is thought , for example , that the long and feathery antennae of male mosquitoes pick up the specific sound wave patterns generated by a female mosquito who is ready and willing for a sexual encounter . |
| 14 | We have found no recorded case where intestinal sarcoidosis has been manifest as an anal skin tag associated with a microscopic colitis . |
| 15 | Ironically enough , his main field experience occurred as a fortuitous consequence of the First World War . |
| 16 | I used to have a piece of cardboard up there shelve dividers sounded like a good idea . |
| 17 | Downpipe connected to back inlet gully leading to a combined drain |
| 18 | Research summary To investigate , through a case study centered on a major commercial company , the organisational transformations taking place in commercial software development . |
| 19 | A very interesting case study relating to a successful application of participation at Rolls Royce is given in Mumford & Henshall ( 1979 ) . |
| 20 | A further expansion of the harbour was completed in 1817 with the opening of the West Dock entered by a bridged passageway from the East Dock . |
| 21 | A Sunday Mirror exclusive linked to the television Crimewatch programme focused on a powerful attacker who was nicknamed ‘ Muscle Man ’ by detectives hunting him . |
| 22 | With Paul Baker and Andy Saville out for the season , Pool hope Johnrose recovers from a sprained wrist before tomorrow 's game at Leyton Orient . |
| 23 | Levi 's survey ( Levi 1986 ) put the figure at 1 billion losses , with recorded offences rising annually at 5 per cent , and the Confederate of British Industry estimates that computer crime runs at an annual figure of 25 to 30 million . |
| 24 | This result is in general agreement with the peak generation estimate of 1.2% reflectance determined from the rapid pyrolysis data published for a German coal by Jüntgen and Klein ( 1975 ) ( Figs. 12 and 13 ) . |
| 25 | You can protect yourself against future rises in interest rates by means of a hedging instrument known as a forward rate agreement , or FRA . |
| 26 | Town had their chances against Barnsley , but their finishing looked somewhat second rate for a first division side pushing for a premier league place . |
| 27 | During a recent holiday in Kalimantan ( Indonesian Borneo ) , proposed one-night stay in Pontianak on the west coast degenerated into a forced stop of eight days , due to the closure of the airport because of smoke pollution . |
| 28 | For instance , a visual field loss resulting from a damaged retina will not be helped by wearing spectacles , and they will not be prescribed . |
| 29 | The similarly-configured Beech Bonanza suffers from an irritating snaking wiggling Dutch roll at higher speeds , but this flying V-sign ran straight as an arrow an as smooth as silk . |
| 30 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |