Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [coord] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not wipe the offending word off the blackboard , but as I was packing up my books and papers at the end of the class , a girl got up and without a word erased it , to a scattering of applause . |
| 2 | In the Structure Plan and in all earlier discussion , land was seen as something which provides a location for industry , for the population employed in and as a consequence of that industry and for the services necessary for that population . |
| 3 | The agreed ratio will reflect a number of considerations , such as : ( a ) the age and experience of each partner ; ( b ) the amount of time a partner is required to devote to the firm ; ( c ) the nature of each partner 's work ( legal aid or private , fee earning only or including a generous proportion of remuneration for office and appointments held ) ; ( d ) the extent to which the profits of separate departments within the firm differ substantially from one another ; ( e ) whether the firm 's policy tends to equality of reward ( and equality would be imposed under the Partnership Act in the absence of some other agreed ratio ) or whether , for example , it attempts to relate profit shares to salaries in comparable employments . |
| 4 | The specific volume changes linearly with temperature up to a transition region where a change of slope occurs , after which the curve continues linearly but at a steeper gradient ; Tg is usually defined s the point at which the tangents to the two curves intersect . |
| 5 | In due course the manager of the affected package responded favourably and as a result both DCs moved to the ‘ agreed ’ state . |
| 6 | In an instant the cripple lurched up and with a powerful twist of his crutch sent the end of the log into the water . |
| 7 | This second purpose is dealt with not only in the brief account of evolution outlined above but by a philosophical discussion of the production of ideas in history which it is equally essential to understand for apprehending the Marxist attitude to history and anthropology . |
| 8 | One of the doctors managed to get the laundry going again and in a few days the hospital was evacuated to a small country town . |
| 9 | A middle-aged woman with cropped grey hair was in the pool , apparently supervising the party , but even as Rachel watched in amazement the figure behind the chair stepped forward and with a shock she saw it was David . |
| 10 | This minor invention , which enables traffic to move smoothly and with a minimum of accidents , exploited a process need . |
| 11 | The amendment by an expatriate Scot , George Cunningham ( Labour , Islington ) , by ensuring that a 40 per cent vote of the electorate ( not simply of those voting ) would have to be achieved for a devolution bill to go through and for a repeal order not to be tabled , made devolution , at least for Wales , virtually an impossibility . |
| 12 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 13 | The man whirled round and for a few seconds the landlord saw his face . |
| 14 | If the existing pipe discharges over or into a gully , a shoe supporting bracket should be screwed to the wall with zinc-plated screws ( this time 38mm [ 1½in ] No 10s ) and the shoe clipped into place . |
| 15 | Aloofness , detachment , distancing , flippancy , all variations on a theme — a sustained effort to remain above and beyond a threatening world . |
| 16 | There was the case , for example , of a five-year-old boy who was taken to hospital vomiting violently and with a high temperature . |
| 17 | Eventually Wayne 's patience ran out and in a violent confrontation , Wayne finally threw the smaller Widmark against a wall . |
| 18 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 19 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 20 | With little suspicion and high self-confidence , the Rottweiler responds quietly and with a wait-and-see attitude to influences in his environment . |
| 21 | But the little bird flew on and into a tree on the edge of an orchard . |
| 22 | It is as if the dead person had killed themselves in order to get away and as a punishment . |
| 23 | So the whole family ate handsomely and with a great amount of hearty relish . |
| 24 | Moreover , he concludes , ‘ medical students ’ disease terminates readily and within a relatively short time ’ . |