Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the rain cutting visibiity to less than a hundred feet , it was as if they were trapped inside a glass tumbler the sides of which held at bay the blackness of the storm . |
| 2 | More often than not they are located ten miles outside town under a tin roof , in wasteland surrounded by a car park the size of Brazil . |
| 3 | UI says that to be selected as a reference technology a company will now have to promise to provide snapshots for early access , follow established licensing and conformance guidelines which do not include pricing , and adhere to evolution requirements . |
| 4 | Built round a consortium approach the MBA facilitates the opportunity for interaction between managers from the I.T function and from elsewhere in the organisation as well as with their counterparts in other organisations . |
| 5 | On Nov. 25 , 1991 , the United Left ( IU ) opposition grouping had lodged in a Madrid court an accusation against Renfe concerning fraudulent dealings . |
| 6 | I have just seen in a saleroom catalogue a single manuscript leaf from an early fourteenth century Bible , patiently and diligently written by a scribe in Southern France , illuminated , historiated and decorated' in gold , red and blue . |
| 7 | The six included the party leader , Proinsias De Rossa , who had been trying to reform the party and whose proposals to replace " democratic centralism and Leninist revolutionary tactics " with democratic socialism had narrowly failed to be adopted at a party conference a week earlier . |
| 8 | The Porteverde Holiday Village is a complex of Mediterranean-style and apartment block buildings built around a yacht marina a mile from the centre of town . |
| 9 | In 99pc of cases once a patient has been attended by an ambulance crew the fast blue light , siren-screaming journey is not necessary . |
| 10 | Used with a metal detector a vibrator has given excellent results to more than one enthusiast . |
| 11 | Called the ‘ Pond Protection Kit ’ , it 's a mini-electric fence system powered by four Duracell batteries housed within a plastic box no bigger than a pint pot . |
| 12 | On one side it was surrounded by a strong wall , on the other it was washed by a fish pond the size of lake , well stocked with all kinds of fish and game birds , to feast both the eye and the palate . |
| 13 | In Fig. 9–12(a) a cash transfer is compared with a price subsidy the objective of which is to make the recipient as well off as possible . |
| 14 | IC4 is mounted in a ZIF socket the rest are inserted in standard d.i.l. sockets . |
| 15 | I 've found as a music teacher the best classroom situation … is where I 'm completely an onlooker ; having given them the stimulus , they 've done all the build-up , they 've done the preparation , they 've got the task . |
| 16 | He had caught cold , or more likely , suffered from an allergy , Trent thought as he remarked the inflamed eyelids that shuttered the eyes and a nose drip that the thin man dipped into a linen handkerchief every half-a-minute — dip , dip , like a skinny waterbird feeding along the tideline . |
| 17 | If a vehicle is abandoned in a car park the University reserves the right to have the vehicle removed and/or disposed of as it sees fit . |
| 18 | Whilst all these functions can be provided in a batch environment the real breakthrough came when WYSIWYG arrived . |
| 19 | He wore gloves , as he had since he 'd first entered the vehicle — stolen from a food depot a hundred miles to the north . |
| 20 | When the deuterons are polarised in a D-T reaction the fusion products — helium-4 nuclei ( alpha particles ) and neutrons — come out of the plasma perpendicular to the magnetic field . |
| 21 | With a plastic top affixed to a metal base the ME6 looks and feels like it will stand up to a fair bit of punishment . |
| 22 | On a third occasion , Alexander II was returning from the front during the Russo-Turkish War and recognized on a station platform an officer who had deserted from the army . |
| 23 | The hired minibus , which was carrying a group of Newcastle United fans , collided with a Vauxhall Cavalier a mile west of Bowes at 8.10am on a section being converted to dual carriageway . |
| 24 | The hired minibus , which was carrying a group of Newcastle United fans , collided with a Vauxhall Cavalier a mile west of Bowes at 8.10am on a section being converted to dual carriageway . |
| 25 | Aleksandr Lebed , whose appointment as the new 14th Army commander was reported on June 28 , announced at a press conference a policy of " armed neutrality " for the troops under his command . ) |
| 26 | The winners will be announced at a press reception the next morning at the Langham Hilton Hotel . |
| 27 | His black necktie was steadied by a gold pin the shape of a crucifix . |
| 28 | Guided by an Elf pilot the ship then passes through the Emerald Gate , a great fortified arch filled with war machines and the cloaked spearmen and archers of the Lothern Sea Guard . |
| 29 | Both books display Minton 's effervescent gaiety , but , even before his illustrations became overlaid with a period nostalgia an undertow of sadness could be discerned beneath their cheerful manner . |
| 30 | In the wood , Cecil had carved into a tree trunk a small swing for a child that had since grown and died in Vietnam . |