Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] and [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As much as he is thoroughly yankified , known to all the world as Jimmy Lin , with his high-rise apartment on the Upper West Side and scarcely a trace of an accent , he none the less still feels a strong connection to his native island . |
2 | Subsystem components include a SCSI controller , 15Mb cartridge tape and either a 200Mb or 420Mb hard drive , expandable to over 600Mb . |
3 | Since the 1930s , it has served as both a tea shop and now a restaurant . |
4 | A foot has been put through the loft floor and now a hole needs to be repaired in a lath and plaster bedroom ceiling . |
5 | Fergie has been saying that he was so concerned about my life-style away from football he called in Sir Matt Busby , the club doctor and even a parish priest to try to get me sorted out . |
6 | Only people over 70 were eligible , and initially there was an income test and also a test of good character . |
7 | Charles Eaton , director of the pilot needle exchange programme and now a city health official , agrees : ‘ There is no evidence from any syringe exchange scheme anywhere in the world suggesting that they encourage people to inject . |
8 | This is usually a result of family and marriage ties and so an employer might expect young unattached female staff to be more willing to relocate than married women . |
9 | We are most fortunate to have as our guest teacher Irene Schwarz a former Director of Training at the Medau College and presently a member of the staff of the Physical Education Department of Freiburg University . |
10 | Some of us remember the old days when the NI was gloriously unpredictable — one month a short story taking up the whole magazine , the next a cartoon issue and then a bit later a fold-out world map . |
11 | MOLLY SCRUTTON 's interest in movement began at an early age and led her to join a junior dance group and later a gymnastics club . |
12 | There were probably a number of them in Britain , but they must have left very little archaeological trace , needing only a flat piece of ground , probably outside the towns , marked out with wood rails and probably a stand at the finishing post for the local dignitaries and wealthy citizens . |
13 | The new award differs from its predecessor in that it includes management studies and also a module in ‘ Control and care of prisoners ’ . |
14 | There are also plans for schools , shopping complexs and even a University . |
15 | The two tram routes departed from opposite sides of the central loading island in the Square , where for many years there was an ornamental drinking fountain and later a stone shelter and underground toilets . |
16 | Version 6.20 of Logitech 's versatile MouseMan driver software is supplied and this offers various utilities like programmable mouse buttons , Windows pointer customisation and even an option for the pointer to temporarily grow as it moves . |
17 | Here we have a patient who is unstable during the course of filling , and is also obstructed with a low flow , and a high voiding pressure and finally a patient who is unstable who has a perfectly normal voiding pressure of er thirty five , and a maximum flow of twenty . |
18 | At home she would have been having buttered toast and strawberry jam and probably a piece of sponge-cake to round it off . |
19 | SHOOTING : Major Peter Freeman , who has died aged 75 , was a former chairman of the British Pistol Club , a shooting council and executive committee member and later a vice-president of the National Smallbore Rifle Association . |
20 | There were thus several attempts to avoid the conclusion that there must have been a big bang singularity and hence a beginning of time . |
21 | It 's also led to a whole industry around the Morse phenomenon , including the CD of music to the series , the Inspector Morse tourist trail and now a non-fiction book about how the series is made . |
22 | His vision was impaired , with his sight deteriorating to monochrome , out of focus images and then a series of dots and hiss . |
23 | In order for the diagnosis to be confirmed , a barium enema and later a biopsy of the tumour ( via a sigmoidoscope ) will be required . |
24 | In a large number of cases the egg would develop quite normally into a swimming tadpole and then an adult toad . |
25 | Until now , Fenway Court has always retained the feeling of a private home , enhanced by such domestic touches as little vases of flowers , evening concerts and even a table laid out as if for tea ; it never seemed wholly incredible that Mrs Gardner herself would suddenly stroll through the door . |
26 | This will remain outside Community competence and therefore a matter for intergovernmental co-operation , with all substantive decisions being made by unanimity . |
27 | ‘ Quality is a way of improving business performance and increasingly a requirement for doing business , ’ says Chris Hampson . |
28 | In addition to the above forms , you will of course be required to obtain the borrower 's signature to the mortgage form and possibly a deed of assignment in respect of any endowment policies . |
29 | four point six you 've got quotation letter and actually a lot of our quotations are actually faxes . |
30 | The hardest problems are those where simple processes are hard to find , usually because of some complexity of the puzzle which makes it hard to see the effects of moves , or those where the basic coordinate system and hence a notation is hard to find . |