Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Is not every child whose parents are on income support entitled to a free school meal ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We have found no recorded case where intestinal sarcoidosis has been manifest as an anal skin tag associated with a microscopic colitis . |
| 7 | I used to have a piece of cardboard up there shelve dividers sounded like a good idea . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A Sunday Mirror exclusive linked to the television Crimewatch programme focused on a powerful attacker who was nicknamed ‘ Muscle Man ’ by detectives hunting him . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | You can protect yourself against future rises in interest rates by means of a hedging instrument known as a forward rate agreement , or FRA . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | BET will be toppled from her throne as Queen of Coronation Street when a plush hair salon run by a new character opens in Britain 's best-known thoroughfare . |
| 14 | The literary judgement contained in the phrase ‘ almost embarrassing success ’ is offered in another way when the author , writing this time under his real name of J. I. M. Stewart , led his readers to an understanding of a super-hero , spy and adventurer whose exploits were made possible because he had retained the boyhood characteristics nourished by a certain area of reading . |
| 15 | Luckily , The Wedding Present signed to a major just before Red Rhino folded . |
| 16 | Men 's stripy yarn dyed crew neck shirt finished with a twin-stitched band at the neck and a breast pocket . |
| 17 | Each room should be lit with a warm glow , rather than a glaring white light from a central light bulb covered with a scorched paper shade ! |
| 18 | The electric light bulb hung in a spherical Japanese lantern , blue , with a green cuttlefish curling round it , so that the light was cold and garish . |
| 19 | Despite cancellations from Norwegian and Swedish drivers because of boat damage suffered in a recent Italian race , a quality international field will vie for the European championship . |
| 20 | While he waited for a response he got up and moved ponderously to the wind-up gramophone housed in a carved oaken cabinet in a cornet of the room . |
| 21 | Species of Inga ( Leguminosae ) with them on their rachis have herbivore damage reduced by a third or even a half . |
| 22 | The one exception was at Dartford where the Payroll/Personnel Administration Department reported to a central Payroll Manager . |
| 23 | Actually Oi ! was a mock-working class derivation of punk rock invented by a pig-faced scab which , thanks to the cowardice and stupidity of its main advocates , had rather a lot of Nazi scum amongst its rather dim cockernee fan base . |
| 24 | His left hand rested on the desk a silver ring set with a large brown stone on the little finger , and between the first and second fingers a cigarette with a thin blue tape of smoke rising steadily from it . |
| 25 | All three systems use search algorithms based on a dynamic programming algorithm known as the Viterbi algorithm ( Viterbi 1967 ) . |
| 26 | The aim is to develop a strong export industry based on a small number of processors who are not heavily involved in intervention schemes . |
| 27 | THE MANY-GABLED limestone manor stands tucked into an open fold between Wenlock Edge and Aymestry in the remote and unspoiled Shropshire valley of Hope Dale . |
| 28 | The search steps taken by a genetic learner are of two kinds . |
| 29 | This deep bay has several idyllic small day anchorages along the north coast , and a busy little farming and sponge fishing village served by a tiny harbour . |
| 30 | On Feb. 20 the House of Representatives judiciary committee voted for a six-month halt to repatriations , but on Feb. 24 the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal against the repatriation policy by eight to one and also rejected an emergency request to halt all repatriations . |