Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 2 | This is fundamentally useless and it is amazing that anyone ever manages to get a properly aligned document as a result . |
| 3 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 4 | The defendant dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary of a port authority , was granted a long lease of part of a disused naval dockyard and applied to the plaintiff local authority for planning permission to develop the land as a commercial port . |
| 5 | I find it an insult to my bottom that I was forced to sit on it while playing this badly designed excuse for a game . |
| 6 | He lied about his address and so received methadone on a maintenance basis . |
| 7 | But many commentators have long regarded synergy as a will-o'-the-wisp , arguing for the strategy of critical mass in selected global markets that ICI has belatedly adopted . |
| 8 | A hardy , naturally polled breed of a type which has been in southwest Scotland for centuries , the Galloway is capable of growing a thick , shaggy coat of long , rain-shedding hairs over its thick , soft , mossy undercoat to protect itself in the cold , damp climate of the region . |
| 9 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
| 10 | Speculation on their colourful lives and enormous bank balances have provided much needed excitement in a sea of bland , beige tailoring . |
| 11 | They were content to stay in the back-streets of our towns making their own coffins and providing a much needed service to a community which was either unqualified , unwilling or unable to extend to such outrageous luxuries . |
| 12 | But whatever the motive , the Maestro and Montego are providing much needed work at a time when work is hard to come by . |
| 13 | They provide much needed colour at a time when many perennials and certainly most shrubs have finished , but without appearing overwhelmingly garish . |
| 14 | This is a pity as PostScript is a much needed standard in a world of millions of PCs , all with different print output ! |
| 15 | It was incredible but true — incredible because she 'd only known Fen for a week — incredible because she 'd begun by disliking him — but true that she was in love with him . |
| 16 | His much praised history of a village through different voices , different times and very different writing styles . |
| 17 | Almost certainly the explanation lies in the highly charged atmosphere of a battlefield on the eve of battle . |
| 18 | So the highly defined agenda of a festival such as this may well be the way forward for gay men who 've long been marginalised and denied fair access to the media . |
| 19 | Defending Hinkin and Plumb , solicitor Bob Booker told the court that the offences had all taken place within a fortnight in early March . |
| 20 | Do not fail ’ — he was having to shout now above the stir ( was everything clear ? or had he only thrown water on a fire ? ) — ‘ do not fail to put in a clause calling on the proprietors to undertake nothing punitive against tenants seen at meetings . |
| 21 | He went down on his haunches in front of Chant and suddenly snatched hold of a handful of his hair . |
| 22 | Recently , it was found that a mentally handicapped woman in Durham had been wrongly denied benefit for a number of years and that the cumulative total was £25,000 . |
| 23 | After R. v. Samuel the police underwent a painful education , as a series of people charged with serious crimes on the basis of admissions went free because they had been wrongly denied access to a solicitor . |
| 24 | Caroline Fairley , wife of Lt-Commander The Honourable Charles Fairley , RN , had apparently lost control of a car that was not hers on a small country road in Oxfordshire and crashed into a tree . |
| 25 | During the summer months it was possible to get a much more highly paid job as a housecleaner , a ‘ barker ’ or a bingo-caller or a taxi driver , and so the winter job of working in a factory was a ‘ stop gap ’ . |
| 26 | This is made crystal clear in a somewhat laboured exposition in a book by Preece and Maier published in 1889 : Let us suppose the two microphonic transmitters are placed on the stage at T and T 1 , and these transmitters separately connected by two distinct wires to two telephone receivers , R and R 1 , which are applied to both ears to hear the actor , whom we will suppose to be placed at A. It is easy to understand that , the distance of this actor from transmitter T being less than that from transmitter T 1 , his song will be more distinctly reproduced by transmitter T than by T 1 , and the stronger impression will be produced on the left ear . |
| 27 | In some ways it is similar to second language acquisition , but it appears to be different in that it starts from the natively acquired dialect as a base . |
| 28 | For example , you could use some locally made fabric as a background , or if you spent a lot of time of the beach , you could press some seaweed and later incorporate it into the picture . |
| 29 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 30 | There will be three awards : a major prize for the best completed project in a museum , gallery or historic building including churches and cathedrals ; a young conservator of the year award to the most promising intern or trainee ; and a prize for innovation in restoration or conservation in developing materials or processes . |