Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenth case got off with a very stern reprimand from Matron and a very black mark against her name for the rest of her career . |
| 2 | Once , at Lisson Grove , their car drew up alongside a rather battered Ford Cortina . |
| 3 | Enzymes are a form of protein made out of a very precise order of amino acids . |
| 4 | As the varnish dries , so the egg tempera closes up into a perfectly fine line . |
| 5 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 8 | But one , hung in the dining room , by a window looking out onto a most majestic ancient cedar tree , is strikingly different to all the others . |
| 9 | Let us consider the poverty of understanding which a child growing up in a religiously deprived background might have of one of the most evocative concepts in religious language , that of " heaven " . |
| 10 | Meanwhile on May 29 the National Assembly approved an economic recovery plan drawn up by a newly appointed economic adviser , Alassane Ouattara , president of the West African Central Bank , in conjunction with the IMF and World Bank . |
| 11 | The sun shone out of a mockingly blue sky . |
| 12 | In spite of this very real hazard , however , it is not uncommon to see quite experienced pilots leaving the ground with the elevator up , which results in the glider zooming up into a dangerously steep initial climb . |
| 13 | Oxfordshire have wanted it back as a site to open up to a much wider public , it 's not very suitable for a prison anyway , certainly since local government reorganisation in 1974 and they have plans for making use of it if and when it comes back to the county |
| 14 | Erm , Chair , on the general financial position , it 's , it 's what I referred to earlier , as moving from somewhere where there were a direct employer or where we were grant-aiding a voluntary body to get on to a more , ultimately a more commercial footing , where we relate the money that we 're paying to the services that are being provided . |
| 15 | A keyboard adds depth to the slower , moodier numbers ( ‘ Better Life ’ , ‘ Leave Tonight ’ ) and the band come over as a pretty tight and professional unit . |
| 16 | Before my right hon. Friend passes on to a specifically Scottish aspect , I wish to raise a general point . |
| 17 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 18 | Since one usually needs to measure emission from only a small area of the viewing field rather than the whole field , a fibre-optic probe inserted in the light path would probably be the best method , with the light-pipe output directed on to a highly sensitive photoelectric cell or photomultiplier , whose output would also have to be calibrated against some standard phosphor . |
| 19 | They are not tremendously significant unless a person s name comes up for a more senior position . |
| 20 | Does the fixity on a particular occasion set in as a purely mental act of knowledge ? |
| 21 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 22 | The student starts off with a fairly definite hold on the world , built on reasonably stable concepts and ideas , but at the end of the course has grasped that very little of the intellectual world has enduring substance and that there are always more cognitive spectacles to put on . |
| 23 | The Aeronca is very definitely a machine from which to appreciate the fun side of flying , as the countryside passes by in a very relaxed fashion . |
| 24 | If two trains pass in opposite directions , each travelling at 125 m.p.h. , a passenger in one train will hear the whistle of the other train swoop down through a particularly dramatic Doppler Shift , since the relative velocity is 250 m.p.h . |
| 25 | In the House of Lords , the argument went off on a rather different tack . |
| 26 | Bill the dog , happy as ever to be out and about , was sniffing everything in sight , his tail whirling round in a completely circular motion like a helicopter rotor ; Eddie , however , having no tail to wag , was simply smiling , something he 's very good at . |
| 27 | Terry Waite languishes in Lebanon — but it is possible to believe that if our Government came up with a suitably attractive offer , he would be released . |
| 28 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 29 | After a few years , the Earl settled down to a more responsible way of life as a serious politician , Rector of Glasgow University , Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Viceroy of Ireland . |
| 30 | ‘ A few more minutes to go , ’ she said , her face cheerful beneath dark hair scraped back into a rather severe French roll . |