Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firms would invite favoured clients or business associates down for a day at Sandwich , either as a reward for past favours rendered or in the hope that the goodwill created would lubricate some future deal . |
| 2 | Black is the usual choice , but a stippled grey/black/green or brown/green/black dabbed on with a sponge gives an interesting effect . |
| 3 | He will at a very early stage have taken steps to preserve evidence , possibly by photographic and other means , of an ephemeral or fleeting nature such as ice ( if he is lucky the temperature on the ground since the crash could still be below freezing ) , or fuel leaking away from a damaged tank or fuel filter , or soot deposits indicative of fire in the air which could be washed away by rain or other disturbance . |
| 4 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 5 | Apart from certain matters which are specifically declared not to constitute development ( for example , internal alterations to buildings , works of road maintenance , or improvement carried out by a local highway authority within the boundaries of a road ) and others which , though possibly constituting development , are declared not to require planning permission , there is provision for the secretary of state to make a General Development Order ( GDO ) specifying classes of ‘ permitted ’ development , and a Use Classes Order specifying groups of uses within which interchange is permissible . |
| 6 | A wren or robin scrambled about in a clump of thorns and seemed to be scolding . |
| 7 | I have already put forward my view that in the foreseeable future there is unlikely to be a sufficiency of common purpose or tradition to create out of a federal Parliament the necessary cohesion for it to control , or even to have much influence over , the unelected central bodies , especially the Commission and the Court of Justice . |
| 8 | He hardly comprehended what had been happening ; the reality and unreality merged together like a nightmare or a melodrama . |
| 9 | Clearly everyone was in festive mood despite the recession , and bidding got off to a brisk start : |
| 10 | Support for MacDonald had remained strong among some of the 200,000 Navajo and violence broke out during a protest march on his behalf in Window Rock on July 22 ; two men died and nine were wounded when police opened fire . |
| 11 | School and college come together in a variety of other ways too , most notably through In-Service provision either on a direct one-to-one or collective basis , or through the Church 's own national structures . |
| 12 | It set in motion what we call a debris flow , a mixture of 50-ton boulders , rocks , sand and gravel bound together in a kind of slurry , which came rolling down the side canyon and dammed the river . |
| 13 | As nearly all the children had freckles , I felt as if I were seeing spots before my eyes , and drew Mickey Mice in a trance , my hand and pen moving mechanically through a misty ocean of freckles , wave upon wave , every freckle asking for Mickey Mouse . |
| 14 | He had breakfasted lightly on Marmite and toast washed down with a pot of tea . |
| 15 | Well it reminds me when I was in a shop on the High Street for many years and a little boy and girl came in with a , with an Alsatian dog , a puppy . |
| 16 | The visual inspiration for the book was the famous advert for Start-rite shoes , showing a small boy and girl walking off down a tree-lined avenue — an innocent image if ever there was one . |
| 17 | Significant new business in tableware and giftware adds up to a … |
| 18 | Few are in any doubt that there is plenty more pain to come , and it may well be that the interim management is now expected to clear the decks , steel itself to announce another enormous net loss for the current quarter and let the new chief executive and team come in with a clean sheet . |
| 19 | A good concept is to turn and then feel that you attack the ball along the line of the hips before allowing the legs and body to release through into a full turn . |
| 20 | Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag . |
| 21 | I had left my mother and father and husband to go alone to a place which was completely unknown to me in order to live with people who were equally unknown . |
| 22 | Then her door was opened , and Gran came in with a cup of tea for her . |
| 23 | His flesh and bone opened up like a bud deploying a blood-red , white-stamened flower from which the petals almost instantly fell . |
| 24 | Only a trickle of progress reports have so far found their way back to Buckinghamshire 's education department , but they confirm the trend nationally of a poor overall response and turnout confined principally to a hardcore of parents , generally stalwarts of a school parent-teacher association . |
| 25 | It looks as if he decided on a do-it-yourself habit modelled on those of Augustinian hermits who wore a basic white garment and scapulary which for outside wear were covered with a black cowl and hood tied round with a black leather thong . |
| 26 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 27 | Gossels says the development and engineering plans along with a set of milestones and documentation were published along with the second snapshot towards the end of last year and sent to 50 early access members , arguing that the schedule and adherence to it is known and calculable , The next part , the Management Framework , is set for release by the end of the year . |
| 28 | Does the agreement by EEC states , albeit belated and as yet incomplete , to a series of apparently liberal Directives on competition and trade add up to a victory for the British view of what the Single Market should be about ? |
| 29 | Defries and Ace crawled up to a hollow , and peered cautiously over the lip . |
| 30 | Thus progress always overreaches itself and mankind falls back into a new barbarism . |