Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane pressed hard , the pennies fell with a clatter and a voice said , ‘ Fenton Bishop 220 . ’ |
| 2 | One can visualise these gentlemen each with a candle or dim lantern , perhaps totally unused to situations like that , climbing fearfully up the ladders , hard on each others heels , taking comfort from the nearness of each other and climbing awkwardly with the lights they carried which would cast but a feeble glow about them . |
| 3 | A well broken , loose and particulate soil will have characteristics different to a uniform and unbroken film of the same type . |
| 4 | For specific shapes such as a rectangle or semi-circle , where the shape is cut out to the exact dimensions required , card could be used . |
| 5 | Well Val was telling me Caroline got the kids all in a row and said something about erm you know , more or less to say well I want to leave your father she said |
| 6 | I shall have to keep my eyes open for a millionaire while I 'm here , ’ she joked . |
| 7 | Order 26 , r 5 applies where any change has taken place after judgment by death , assignment or otherwise , in the parties entitled to enforce a judgment or order or in the parties liable under a judgment or order . |
| 8 | She then tested his creativity by asking him to write down all the things he could do with various objects such as a brick or a shoe , and all the things that would happen if certain events suddenly occurred , such as everyone in the world losing their sight or having to walk on all fours . |
| 9 | Most of them were named after mythological characters , though there were also a few everyday objects such as a Triangle and an Altar . |
| 10 | Every day when he left for work , he would leave objects such as a scroll or a limestone flake , or his kohl-pot , a certain measured distance from the edge of the table on which they lay , and from each other . |
| 11 | Objects such as a shoe or slipper can also evoke this response if the dog was hit in the past . |
| 12 | Strains in glass — as in most other transparent solids — become visible in polarized light and sunlight is partially polarized especially when it is reflected from non-metallic surfaces such as a road or the paintwork of a car . |
| 13 | He kicked his feet free of a vine and rolled into the water , the drag of the rope almost strangling him . |
| 14 | The alternative ( and now much more common ) free format mode requires separators such as a space or a comma to appear between items of data ; this slows down data entry for a skilled keypuncher but is probably preferable for the non-expert since problems of field misalignment can not occur . |
| 15 | The 1968 Act , however , made all planning permissions subject to a condition that development is begun within five years . |
| 16 | In 1974 , during a second visit south of the seventeenth parallel , we crossed into some of the areas most affected by the herbicides , areas such as A Luoi and A Sau , in the west of Thua Thien province , and Kom Tum , Gia Lai and Dac Lak on the high plateau Tay Nguyen . |
| 17 | The cells then interact with one another in huge populations to produce large-scale group effects such as an arm or a leg or ( more indirectly ) a beaver 's dam . |
| 18 | The problem had not appeared overnight ; he was not leaping feet first into a situation that he had not thought about . |
| 19 | They each have stringent but achievable targets such as a commitment that 99 per cent of deliveries will be case-accurate — no easy matter when ten million cases are delivered each week . |
| 20 | There 's nothing worse than arriving fifteen minutes late for a lecture or laboratory practical to find out that other students have stolen a march on you . |
| 21 | Instead of having the machine score the various positions that could be reached after one play , it could generate and then evaluate all the positions possible after a play and a reply , or a play , a reply and a counter-reply . |
| 22 | Bob Gooding owned up to using consultants such as a doctor and a lawyer and complained the debate had dealt with ‘ parody portraits of people ’ . |
| 23 | ( 5 ) To provide a solution to other legal difficulties which can not be overcome by the ordinary powers available to a bidder or target company . |
| 24 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 25 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
| 26 | The trick is to find a way of giving the Europeans enough of a feeling that they can pursue security policies of their own without at the same time forming a European defence association that would drive the Americans away . |
| 27 | Cover for cancellation of your arrangements due to an accident or illness affecting you or your family should be £1,000 to £3,000 . |
| 28 | As an alternative to 100% ownership and control , what about alternative arrangements such as a partnership or joint venture ? |
| 29 | The minimum energy path for such growth incorporates at each step the maximum number of pentagons consistent with a rule that each pair of pentagons should be separated by a pair of hexagons . |
| 30 | It is also noticeable that many incidents of prison disorder — especially the popular form of demonstration on the prison rooftop — are clearly motivated by the very desire to make prisoners ' grievances and allegations visible in a way that would never normally happen . |