Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 2 | Launching himself form the top of a massive 300 foot crane , Nigel plunged towards the ground at high speed with only a bungee ( a strong rope made of rubber encased by a purpose-designed braiding ) stopping him from eating his words . |
| 3 | Virgin Records was no longer the small , struggling outsider with only a handful of artists , but an established and thriving company , vying competitively with the likes of Island and Chrysalis — and , what 's more , they now had a newly-established office in America . |
| 4 | It is simply a high step-up with scarcely a hold for the left hand . |
| 5 | Or there is the Amaretto Liquer Gateau ( £3.25 ) , a light cake with just a hint of naughtiness about it . |
| 6 | The tide is low and someone points excitedly into the clear water to where a couple of large sea-urchins are making their sedate way along the rock-face . |
| 7 | So there 's a reciprocal relationship with quite a number of schools in this area of a rather novel and to us extremely helpful and rewarding kind . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , start-up Echo Logic , the Bell Labs Inc spin-off being funded by AT&T Ventures Corporation , the phone company 's venture arm , has announced a pact with Apple Computer Inc that it 's apparently had in its back pocket for over a year . |
| 9 | Start-up Echo Logic , the Bell Labs Inc spin-off being funded by AT&T Ventures Corporation , the phone company 's venture arm , last week announced a pact with Apple Computer Inc that it 's apparently had in its back pocket for over a year . |
| 10 | By contrast , the Conservatives have been able to raise public spending by nearly a quarter in real terms . |
| 11 | The hazards involved in this operation , the pollution to the environment , the problem of safeguarding the plutonium , and the extremely high costs mean that reprocessing is carried out on a commercial scale by only a handful of other nuclear nations , most notably France and the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Three instruction formats are used ; a 1-byte format with just an operation code ( for example " clear accumulator " ) , a 2-byte format with an operation code and a 1-byte operand field ( for example " load into accumulator the value in the second byte of the instruction " ) , and a 3-byte format with an operation code and a 2-byte operand field ( for example " load into accumulator the contents of the byte whose address is given by the second and third bytes of the instruction " ) . |
| 13 | A couple of days , he 'd said , but he ended up staying in the Commercial Hotel for almost a year . |
| 14 | With my wife 's reluctant agreement ( she did not fancy being left on her own with our two year old son for over a week ) , we started to plan our journey . |
| 15 | Join The Women 's Press Bookclub as an annual member on the coupon below and receive a free copy of Not A Man To Match Her : A Feminist View of Britain 's First Woman Prime Minister by Wendy Webster ( The Women 's Press , £6.95 ) . |
| 16 | The hardy perennial question of how an increase in the money stock is divided between a fall in velocity , an increase in output and an increase in prices gets short shrift in the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 17 | Orkney and Shetland are further from the mainland than the Western Isles , but the answer to the hon. Member 's specific question about when an announcement will be made is , shortly . |
| 18 | ‘ They are not a total reflection of how a school is providing education for pupils . |
| 19 | D did you get any sort of erm , apart from financial support and material support , did you get any moral support of how a strike should be con conducted ? |
| 20 | The subtle acquisition of a sense of the agency norms — ‘ the normal working standards ’ — is suggested in the following description of how an officer learned the rules about when to take ‘ a stat ’ : |
| 21 | Turn it into an oiled bowl , cover with a polythene bag and leave in a warm place for about an hour or until the dough has doubled in size . |
| 22 | And indeed the new landscape produced some fine dramatic compositions such as the railway viaduct over the smoking town of Stockport ; or the sight of Bradford at night from the moorland hills to the north ; or of the smoky silhouette of Nottingham on a winter evening as seen from the south-bound train on the Eastern Region line ; or the city of Sheffield in full blast on a murky morning ; even ( one thinks sometimes ) the sight of long gas-lit streets of red brick working-class houses in a Victorian town with not a tree or a bush in sight : only the lamps shining on pavements blanched by the autumn evening wind . |
| 23 | For a Masai a broad , grassy plain with barely a tree in sight is preferable . |
| 24 | However , two changes that have occurred in the power game have been the awakening of concentrated industrial or union power , which rested like a sleeping giant for nearly a century , and the emergence of consumer power . |
| 25 | If we follow the pragmatist in this order of argument — if we begin with individual official responsibility — we will reach his conclusion because we will then lack any appropriate explanation of why a vote for a checkerboard solution is wrong , any explanation of why a particular official should regard the compromise as a worse outcome than the outcome he regards as more uniformly unjust . |
| 26 | Bethan Roberts sailed through adolescence and early adulthood with hardly a blemish to her name . |
| 27 | Gullholm had been her entire world for almost a fortnight , except for the trip to the nursing home . |
| 28 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 29 | ‘ It was good of you to come , Master Clerk , ’ he said in perfect English with only a trace of a French accent . |
| 30 | A heavy snowfall can transform an easy walk into a serious proposition in just a matter of hours . |