Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver launches forward for a narrow escape . |
| 2 | The plan was devised with the help of the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , which welcomes China 's decision to go ahead as a major step toward saving the panda . |
| 3 | In return for giving this guarantee , both employer and employee pay lower national insurance contributions , and the money goes instead into a separate pension fund . |
| 4 | A mile interviewer with sleek hair sits awkwardly on a high-tech chair , agreeing with him . |
| 5 | The spiritual ( or is it the psychic ? ) intensity of their presence goes together with a marvellous air of freedom and delicacy . |
| 6 | A low wattage bulb glowed half-heartedly beneath a grubby glass lampshade and on the wall to her right was a light switch , round and brown , and set against an embossed biscuit-coloured paper , fading and patchily stained with damp . |
| 7 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 8 | Above : Synodontis multipunctatus fits well into a large Rift Valley set-up . |
| 9 | Some , of course , had no choice in the matter , and like discarded Members of Parliament moved reluctantly towards an unwanted destiny . |
| 10 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has launched a multi-media messaging system , MXE , and also announced an agreement with Intel Corp to work together on a personal computer-based communications system . |
| 11 | Although Stalin died in 1953 and Soviet communism changed gradually from a totalitarian regime into a more conventional authoritarian state run by a collective leadership , the de-Stalinization of Western communism proceeded very slowly . |
| 12 | Of course , no creative scientist holds rigidly to a fixed position in the light of new evidence , and only Kandel himself can say how far he has now moved beyond such earlier , campaigning reductionism . |
| 13 | He stood back in the street , the rain stinging his eyes , wetting him to the skin , getting in his mouth and eyes ; warm rain , huge hard drops , slicking and sticking the clothes to his body ; erotic , making his heart beat faster in a sudden , squally sexual fantasy ; she would invite him in … no , better yet , she would turn up in the street , having been out , also wet to the skin , she would look at him … they would go in … |
| 14 | The complete freedom to work entirely in an individual way eludes most artists . |
| 15 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 16 | Beggars , when you give them money , bless you and wish you good luck , a gold tooth flashing surprisingly in a dusky smile suddenly lighting a dirty face . |
| 17 | So , a tiny red dot placed specifically on a large white area becomes a work of art , but it 's also a criticism that art is viewed too reverently since people will spend time and money to trek to view , maybe worship , the little red dot on the large white area in an art gallery but will swiftly get the handbag removed from the seat cos they want to sit down ! |
| 18 | There is no buccal capsule , the mouth consisting simply of a small opening surrounded by three lips . |
| 19 | 2 The defender drives upward with a full knee spring out of the attacker 's reach . |
| 20 | The door from the terrace led directly into a long , somewhat overfurnished salon , cool and dim after the heat and brightness outside , its deep window-sills shaded by closed shutters and crowded with knick-knacks . |
| 21 | The archway looks much like a giant length of intestine . |
| 22 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 23 | Clamorous criticism of this category of capital murder came simultaneously from an opposing tendency . |
| 24 | There 's a club meeting here for a social weekend — I think they like to keep their places warm here for when coarse fishing starts again . |
| 25 | Suppose , for example , that the labour force grows exogenously at a constant exponential rate , 11 . |
| 26 | The Islington Crime Survey ( ICS ) of 1985 was the first study to focus solely on an inner city area According to the Department of the Environment Islington is the seventh most deprived area of England and the fifth worst area where housing is concerned . |
| 27 | A huge ceiling fan turned slowly above an open area in the centre which was laid out with bentwood chairs and marble-topped tables for the bar customers . |
| 28 | ‘ … [ I ] t can not be argued that violence exists solely as a cultural phenomenon … violence is almost certainly embedded in the natural world ’ ( 1982 : 54 ) . |
| 29 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 30 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |