Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly .
2 In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street .
3 Erm , I had a bit difficulty coming up with a case , actually , erm , this
4 At last she came across a white man , nonchalantly lighting his cigarette from a twelve-inch flame shooting out of a gas jet , who was prepared to answer her question .
5 In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help .
6 These protein molecules curl up into a particular shape determined by their own amino-acid sequence , which in turn is governed by the DNA code sequence of the gene G. When G mutates , the change makes a crucial difference to the amino-acid sequence normally specified by the gene G , and hence to the coiled-up shape of the protein molecule .
7 Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) .
8 As they parked and headed for the open front door , a smiling woman in a dusky pink two-piece and with her silver hair caught back in a chignon appeared to welcome them .
9 Which of us on finding our car aerial snapped off by a vandal have not momentarily wanted to do the same to his neck ?
10 Introduced last summer to bring stock car racing back to a more affordable level , their early outings showed promise , with the Christmas meeting at Foxhall producing 30 starters and some excellent racing .
11 They vary from the smallest tin shack propped up against a breakwater to the smartest yacht club in Cowes — but you will find the same enthusiasm for the sport in each .
12 Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist .
13 But , with a research department reduced by over a half and with the strategic use of a cash cow , the nylon business produced innovation after innovation .
14 The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning .
15 The Oldham Stock Exchange developed out of a new class of capitalists not portrayed in the industrial scenarios of Marx and Engels .
16 A piece of silver wrapping-paper rolled up into a tight ball , or the traditional ball of wool , provides the greatest reward .
17 Mice are not clockwork mice running around on a course which is the predictable inevitable consequence of some internal machinery .
18 " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) .
19 " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) .
20 In addition , even if it does not have a UK office , a non-UK firm nonetheless needs to be authorised for investment business carried on from a non-UK office with customers or counterparties in the UK on a services basis unless the FSA 's overseas person exemption applies ; this indeed also applies to UK firms ( see page 43 below ) .
21 The court , therefore , went to Mr McTear , his living room turned over to a commission appointed by the Court of Session to hear his evidence .
22 It is a rambling Tudor house run by John and Margaret Parker , whose breakfast room and drawing room look out over a wonderful walled garden , beyond which fields of grazing cows stretch down to the river .
23 As we made our way down towards Butter Tubs Pass following the boundary fence , Bill found the head of a freshly killed grouse , possibly the work of a fox , and refused to put it down again but walked along with it head first in his mouth , the neck feathers sticking out like a shuttlecock .
24 The snow buggy pulled up alongside a closed elevator door .
25 Binoculars revealed a low quay against the dark sand , and off to one side figures standing about on a bare slope with piles of baggage .
26 They had the car lights switched off for a while .
27 Does the whole conceptual perspective of the Monitor theory narrow down to a focus on filling in the blanks ?
28 A short side road branches off to a passenger ferry across the Kyle , linking the opposite shore with a narrow strip of tarmac eleven miles long that provides the only access to the lighthouse at Cape Wrath .
29 We had hundreds of er identity cards and ration books , all of which are on display in the library , coupled with some extraordinary things ; er a wedding dress made out of a parachute , and an empty incendiary bomb — I stress empty , I 'd hate to think it went off in the library .
30 It 's not unusual for blood pressure to go up as a result of stress , so if you have a high reading at some point , your doctor or midwife might suggest you rest and try to relax for a while before they check it again .
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