Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eggs were clear and had a diameter of between 0.6 and 0.9mm and mostly floated at the water surface . |
| 2 | The apparent aim was to strengthen the Sunday Telegraph , which with a circulation of 667,000 was nearly half a million copies behind the daily and facing a fight for its life . |
| 3 | During a normal immune response , immune cells ( white blood cells/ lymphocytes ) become activated and secrete a variety of small protein molecules which help to induce the stimulation of nearby lymphocytes to become active against foreign or abnormal cells . |
| 4 | He was emerging in stately fashion from Wavebreaker 's companionway and , though I could see he was tall and lanky and had a ponytail of hair , I could make out no details of his face . |
| 5 | That is not to say that we can ignore people who are unemployed and seeking a way of earning a living . |
| 6 | There are two bundled games which are OK and provide a bit of a break , but they 're not quite enough . |
| 7 | A positive approach to study of this nature makes it more interesting and provides a degree of excitement . |
| 8 | On the other hand , we certainly are not looking for the bland , but rather for the anodyne which is also intriguing and interesting and has a sense of positive enthusiasm . ’ |
| 9 | Partly irritated by critical misreadings of this piece , Barth published in 1979 a ‘ comparison and corrective ’ entitled ‘ The Literature of Replenishment ’ in which he sees disjunction , etc. as essentially modernistic and seeks a synthesis between modernism and nineteenth-century realism . |
| 10 | Like most British national trails , many continental distance routes assume that walkers are travelling light and seeking a roof over their heads each night . |
| 11 | If large curtains are vacuumed in situ with a hand attachment , this will keep the fabric fresh and prevent a build-up of dust , reducing the need for frequent cleaning . |
| 12 | Colouring a few faces brown and celebrating a couple of extra festivals does not constitute multicultural education . |
| 13 | Inside it was cool and restful , with honey-coloured stone tiles covering a huge entrance hall , where she 'd promptly dropped her suitcase and flight-bag and made a dive for the kitchen and the fridge to quench her raging thirst . |
| 14 | The young boy pictured above is 13 years old and works a minimum of 12 hours a day . |
| 15 | BRITAIN 'S typical executive is male , 44 years old and has a salary of £30,355 ( including £4,826 in bonus pay ) , according to a comprehensive annual survey conducted by P-E Inbucon , writes Sarah Hogg . |
| 16 | A third party should be entitled to assume that a person in an authoritative position within an organisation is competent to bind the organisation , and the organisation should not be able to plead violation of an internal rule unless ‘ that violation was manifest and concerned a rule of its internal law of fundamental importance . ’ |
| 17 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 18 | Both these days will have to be self-financing and need a minimum of 30 people attending — therefore — please complete the slip at the end of the notes and return to the Office . |
| 19 | It was safer for them to have one old woman occupying part of the place than to leave it empty and risk a group of drifters moving in . |
| 20 | Do n't fall into the trap of trying to be too clever and changing a lot of different things at once — then if the problem goes away you still do n't know which of the possibilities was causing the difficulty . |
| 21 | Other girls at Group included ‘ Jolly Molly ’ — plump and good-natured ; Harriet , who was trying to improve her mind and always listened to the afternoon plays on BBC radio ( relayed to each hut over the Tannoy system ) ; Veronique , who was stage-mad and had a friend in the current London production of Lady Windermere 's Fan , and dough-faced Olive ( more about her a bit further on ) . |
| 22 | Now do the following and make a sketch for each question , showing the new position of the hands . |
| 23 | The current trustees of the Barnes Foundation argue that the 1924 Merion villa on the edge of Philadelphia that housed the collection has become structurally unsafe and poses a threat to the pictures . |
| 24 | The interviewing panel was civil and included a peer of the realm , a major-General , and a gentleman farmer . |
| 25 | When Frank heard that Michael thought of going in for the prize on this set book he was indignant and sent a message to Michael , ‘ Who in his senses would read a book by a bishop ? ’ |
| 26 | They were delighted and arranged a reception for him in a studio formerly occupied by Chagall , who had left France before the war to go back to Russia to get married . |
| 27 | The strong sense of community between living and dead expressed in the frequent injunction in wills to pray for the soul of the deceased and to endow a priest for this specific purpose witnesses to a feeling for a purpose in existence beyond that of material well-being . |
| 28 | Correct forms are regular and simple , e.g. the English language usage by which straight is a metaphor for honest and crooked a metaphor for dishonest . |
| 29 | The implications of the present situation are serious and present a threat to the future of a great British choral tradition . |
| 30 | And you 're not working Saturday morning , instead of going to work late we can go a bit early and do a bit of shopping ourselves . |