Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , for example , passages in the Old Testament which speak of a ‘ sabbath rest ’ for nature . |
| 2 | For instance , he will take a wooden bowl , burn it and then , using the pieces of charred wood which result as a medium , make a drawing of a bowl . |
| 3 | Then there are the codling ; wonderful eating and nothing like that tasteless stuff you buy with a crispy brown skin . |
| 4 | But that 's an average week you see for a lot of people . |
| 5 | Instead and this is true of so much performance of pre-Baroque music we start with a ready-made ensemble or choir and ask , ‘ What will we sing or record next ? ’ |
| 6 | But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb . |
| 7 | In warm weather they reproduce at a prodigious rate , smothering not only waterlilies , but other succulent aquatics and causing widespread disfiguration of flowers and foliage . |
| 8 | The unusual job I have for a few weeks is to collect unpublished or limited circulation material for whizzkid computer boffins in Oxford to tag and analyse on computers . |
| 9 | Devise a recipe incorporating potatoes which shows what a valuable role they play in a healthy eating regime . |
| 10 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 11 | In conventional language we talk of a pointer moving across a scale to come to rest at the mark saying " here " or at the mark saying " there " . |
| 12 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 13 | The reason why company law should have been so concerned to legitimate the power of corporate managers is that this power potentially threatens the political-economic organization we associate with a liberal democracy . |
| 14 | Once inside the Grand Palace we sizzle under a grill of designer electricity . |
| 15 | At the present time I have in a total of fourteen patrol constables and two community constables and , as you are aware , I have two community constables here in , and . |
| 16 | And from C P R E's point of view we we would feel that the best way to do that is to is to reconvene if that 's the right word , the forum of Greater York authorities to look in more detail at at each of the sectors and under undertake the the technical comparison I think in a in in a fair and reasonable way which which I do n't think we 've really we 've really achieved during erm three hours of discussion today . |
| 17 | 1 portable chair , collapsible ( you have probably noticed that , at the very moment you feel like a quick sit-down in an old house , all the chairs suddenly develop signs saying NOT TO BE SAT UPON , and all the window-seats are occupied by NT helpers ) |
| 18 | Meanwhile the ethereal life of Ranveer , Bubbles and Socks , an unworldly trio who react in a childlike way to every sling and arrow as if permanently looking for Nanny , starts to unravel when a new administrator takes over the game park with thinly veiled hostility towards his country 's nobility . |
| 19 | But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car . |
| 20 | Difficult for bread-and-butter manufacturers , never mind the makers of cars so far off the scale ( up to £80,000 for the 600SEL Merc and twice that for the Bentley ) that by any rational thinking they belong to a different era altogether — one without recession , a war just over and all the current uncertainties . |
| 21 | Please accept the small gift we enclose as a mark of our esteem . |
| 22 | Ours is the only Government who have as a priority in our negotiations in Brussels the provision that all subsidies should be subject to some form of environmental assessment . |
| 23 | That sounds like a horrible sodomising thing you do with a rifle in Vietnam ’ ) . |
| 24 | This placed an increasing pressure on the exchange rate causing a loss of reserves and the exhaustion of the American loan which burst into a massive drain once convertibility came into operation in July . |
| 25 | They are all linked with parts of educational activity which fall within a typical institutional plan and are now largely covered in the requirements for the publication of comparative information laid down in the Education ( Schools ) Act 1992 . |
| 26 | This necessitates OLE ( object linking and embedding ) functionality and common dialogue boxes — i.e … the pleasant way you navigate to a given file with the pretty yellow folders . |
| 27 | The only trouble is , the only other place I know with a photocopier it 's one of these typical photocopying as we know , you know . |
| 28 | It 's the most convincing evidence we have of an alien invasion of this planet , and a matter of public record . |
| 29 | The electron beam is generated by applying a potential up to 30 kV between a small tungsten steel cathode disc and an annular anode which lie within an evacuated glass tube . |
| 30 | If reading is complex , so also is writing ; and when we come to the mystery of literary composition , we can scarcely begin to explain the operations of the creative mind which result in a sequence of words on the written page . |