Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took this work seriously and developed into quite a muscular specimen . |
| 2 | After incubation and the exertions of tending their young , adults require the rest of the summer to regain condition and undergo at least a partial moult , then to fatten again for their journey back to the wintering grounds . |
| 3 | This was news to me , although I knew Graham Fearnley , who was Jack Mason 's agent and looked after quite a big stable of European golfers . |
| 4 | There are some blacks who are born and die without even a decent roof over their heads or a job . |
| 5 | PENSIONER Olive Smith was run over by a train — and escaped with just a small head cut . |
| 6 | It is common ground that in a majority of cases where an order may be made under section 18 for the payment by the Board to the unassisted party of the costs of appellate , as opposed to first instance , proceedings , the Court of Appeal or this House will be in a position at the conclusion of an appeal on the information then before it to decide under section 18(3) what , if any , order for costs should be made against the assisted party and to form at least a provisional view under section 18(4) ( c ) as to whether it would be ‘ just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case that provision for the costs should be made out of public funds . ’ |
| 7 | ( On most types of training glider it will be possible to get down to the pre-stall buffet and continue with either a slight rocking of the wings or a very gentle inner wingdrop . ) |
| 8 | However , these are limited in number and apply to only a small proportion of all Forestry Commission lands ( Hall 1974 ) . |
| 9 | In the Scottish universities , students normally enter at 17 rather than 18 , after taking five ‘ highers ’ subjects rather than three A levels , belong initially to a faculty rather than a department , and proceed to either a three-year ordinary or a four-year honours degree . |
| 10 | They are usually fitted into a timber sub-frame ( hardwood , in preference to softwood ; there 's little point in fitting an indestructible door in a frame that could rot in 10 years ) , and come with either a silvery finish or a factory-applied coating in a limited range of colours . |
| 11 | Moscow , however , might still be influenced and restrained by even a small British thermo-nuclear arsenal . |
| 12 | Cruzate 's more pessimistic view was less well received that Penzias ' more technically exciting world , but represented at least a small dose of reality into some technical ivory towers . |
| 13 | The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland , formed at the time of the abolition of the Stormont parliament , represents those catholics , protestants , and others who disavow the twin alliance of Ireland but retain at least a practical attitude on sovereignty . |