Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay trembled and clamped her teeth together on a chill sip of wine , the kiss of alcohol meaningless on the tight-lipped blues . |
| 2 | If you just knit two yarns together without a plating feeder , sometimes one yarn will be on the purl side and sometimes the other . |
| 3 | We did indeed use our cars rather like a TV set . |
| 4 | To this the tiger agreed , and having tied their tails together in a reef knot , the pair set off arm in arm . |
| 5 | Then when it is touched it immediately snaps the shells together like a steel trap . |
| 6 | ABE NATHAN , the former RAF Spitfire pilot who for 23 years has led an often lonely crusade for peace , was jailed for six months yesterday by a Ramla court for breaking an Israeli anti-terrorism law by meeting the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , in September last year . |
| 7 | This review of child-care in Scotland began before the children in Orkney were taken from their homes early on a February morning . |
| 8 | If , however , the expectations of the client are of a lower order , the analyst must be prepared to use the idealised solutions simply as a knowledge base to determine where acceptable and attainable improvements can be made . |
| 9 | The surgeries at Crook , Peterlee , Consett and Chester-le-Street reopened 16 months ago on a trial basis for half-a-day each week . |
| 10 | The first time I met them , a few months ago in a London photo studio , they were having confetti dumped over their heads by a girl who plays Gemma in Neighbours . |
| 11 | Pripyat stands today like a ghost city , its abandoned ferris-wheel creaking in the wind , its expensive , paved streets empty of pedestrians . |
| 12 | The dollar targets reflect the fact that oil trades worldwide at a dollar price : |
| 13 | If you are more than two to three minutes away from a radio facility — on airways for example — and you are 5 to 10 degrees off track , then correct 30° as a minimum . |
| 14 | It was written in some exasperation by Frederick Midgeod as a result of his experiences presumably with a Model T Ford during his time in what was the Gold Coast and is now Ghana . |
| 15 | Place the two ingredients together in a vinaigrette bottle or small screw-top jar and shake vigorously until blended . |
| 16 | Wild Boar Hamburgers Ingredients : 450g ( 1lb ) lean boar meat from shoulder or loin 50g ( 2oz ) fresh boar or pork back fat 3tbs breadcrumbs 2tbs fresh cream 2tbs fennel seed 1 ½ tsp fine sea salt Freshly ground black pepper Small pinch ground cloves and nutmeg Preparation : Mince the meat and fat and mix in the remaining ingredients , or mix all the ingredients together in a food processor . |
| 17 | CADBURY Schweppes is building up its presence in the Spanish and Portuguese soft drinks markets with the £45.3m acquisition of several brands together with a fruit plant and bottling plant , writes Terry Wilkinson . |
| 18 | The stock exchange functions also as a clearing house in respect of the dealings between the members . |
| 19 | It is quite common in the futures ' market to sell one obligation to deliver specified commodities repeatedly during a trading day . |
| 20 | During the 1960 campaign , the Kennedy entourage dodged the opposition 's charges about the disease , which was diagnosed two decades earlier by a London doctor who commented , ‘ He has n't got a year to live . ’ |
| 21 | However , there is no major industrial location in the inner-ring areas apart from a riverbank development at New burn which is just a linear extension of West Newcastle . |
| 22 | In the Eurocopy case , the plaintiff and the defendants were the purchaser and the warrantors respectively in a share sale and purchase agreement . |
| 23 | Rehearsal time for the cast would be limited , just a few days together in a church hall with sticky tape on the floor and a few odd props to suggest sets that will only be seen on the Friday . |
| 24 | Spread on to the cake drum , blending the colours together with a palette knife to create a sea effect . |
| 25 | Managers will be responding to points made to Acas officials yesterday at a briefing session involving union officers . |
| 26 | AN UNEMPLOYED man was jailed for two years yesterday for a knife attack which left his victim 's life hanging in the balance . |
| 27 | To illustrate , if an individual buys 10 ST3 contracts at 90.50 and closes the position 20 days later with a reversing sale of 10 contracts at 90.55 , the profit is , where the number of ticks gain is 5 ( i.e. ( 90.55 — 90.50 ) /0.01 , where 0.01 is the tick size ) . |
| 28 | His death two days later in a Hebron prison provoked Palestinian , Arab and international accusations that he had been tortured to death . |
| 29 | He died three days later in a nursing home . |
| 30 | On the night of 9–10 July 1943 , landing from the sea , it put out of action two Italian coastal batteries at Cape Murro di Porco , and followed this two days later by a daylight landing and attack on Augusta , which was strongly defended by troops of the Hermann Goering division . |