Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not good enough for our country to have a Government who are playing for a draw . |
| 2 | As we ruminated , suddenly into our midst burst a young girl visibly in distress . |
| 3 | By the delicacy of her person and the brilliancy of her eye she had tinder enough in her constitution to catch a well struck spark and I trusted I should know how to set her ablaze in a few months more . |
| 4 | Whereas Sutherland describes the Augustan poet as a man at dinner with his friends , Sitter leaves the impression of the mid-century poet alone in his rooms gnawing a joint . |
| 5 | You see , it was entirely within his character to create a situation of interest either by being excessively cantankerous as an old man , or by exhibiting his somewhat childish traits . |
| 6 | She had said she could n't stand living in such close proximity to quite so many facial quirks , but there was something deeper in her decision to take a small flat near the school . |
| 7 | London Assurance owed much to his ability to hammer a text into presentable shape . |
| 8 | The Department of the Environment purports to have knowledge enough at its fingertips to enable a standard spending assessment to be made that takes account of all sorts of individual circumstances in each local authority area . |
| 9 | They are instead bent into semicircles and joined together at their ends to form a solid circular toroid . |
| 10 | The children here were all considered old enough by their parents to understand a sympathetic explanation of the grounds on which the Reporter had referred their case to the Children 's Panel . |
| 11 | I suppose I have been thinking rather a lot lately about my reluctance to stick a label on myself politically — as a lesbian . |
| 12 | The dark incision running obliquely from just above her vagina seemed a grosser violation of her corpse than anything inflicted on her in life . |
| 13 | PGA is a big lunchtime hit around the Practical PC office and the Ed can regularly be seen tucked away in his office playing a round of golf . |
| 14 | Wriggling across country on the D216 to Port-d'Envaux , you come to two more chateaux : 18th-century Panloy , flaking romantically away on its hillock overlooking a bend in the Charente and , almost next door , the much older , moated Crazannes , half-smothered in amazing flamboyant Gothic carving . |
| 15 | Half a mile away on our left towered a rounded granite outcrop , about 1,000 feet high ; against the opposite mountain , to our right , lay an exfoliating fissure , fringed with forest , about three football fields long . |
| 16 | Any regulatory system will be judged not just by its ability to provide a ‘ fair , rate of return for investors and ‘ fair ’ prices for consumers , but on its ability to avoid under-investment . |
| 17 | It is hardly worth your while bringing a suitcase all that way , just for a weekend . ’ |
| 18 | Because Pound the critic seems to be always in his shirt-sleeves sparing a few distraught hours or minutes from the more serious business of writing poems or translating them , his criticism is dispersed , though there is much more of it than we are likely to remember . |
| 19 | I doubt she has ever in her life packed a suitcase ! |
| 20 | As he stood in uncertainty , still clutching his rupee , the people pushed him aside in their hurry to buy a little favour with divinity . |
| 21 | I 've only once in my life written a fan letter to a film star . |
| 22 | All motorbikes have to be ridden side-saddle and bondage is right out : rolled umbrellas , stretch jeans and fishnet stockings are banned , on pain of having a Sony Walkman taped permanently to your skull playing a looped tape of Barry Manilow 's Greatest Hits … except for Barry Manilow fans , who get John Cage instead . " |
| 23 | ‘ No gentleman is ever at his club to answer a telephone call . ’ |
| 24 | The teaching of English was now often viewed simply as a desirable job and staff were often motivated more by their desire to pursue a comfortable career than by any wider sense of social function . " |
| 25 | The vertebrae in its backbone just behind its head have spikes on their lower surface which project downwards into its throat to form a small saw . |
| 26 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 27 | Rideout faces a three-match ban after catching Peacock right in front of referee Gerald Ashby , who earlier applied the letter of the law when Southall instinctively grabbed a backpass straight at his midriff whilestanding a yard outside his area . |
| 28 | Their ability to contain or manage the conflict when this has threatened to engulf them as well as the regional contestants , for example in 1967 and 1973 , contrasts sharply with their inability to transact a peace process which transcends their own rivalry in order to resolve the conflict . |
| 29 | When we look at the open countryside it does n't really to my mind say a great deal about er what is what should be considered acceptable . |
| 30 | Pravda 's financial difficulties had led to a brief suspension in March [ see pp. 38825 ; 38874 ] , but its pro-communist line had changed little since its reappearance following a ban in August 1991 for alleged support for the attempted coup [ see pp. 38418 ] . |