Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 There was more drama to follow in the actual race , where Shemaka held on by a nose from Baya .
2 The first is in the village 's neat cemetery , where fields run up to a distant hedgerow and a sign by the gate says ‘ Fast Food Service ’ .
3 ( Gen. 12.1 ) So Abram set out on a journey where faith rather than sight would be the guiding light , seeking a home , a city , a country .
4 Different players will find it harder than others to come down from a game .
5 The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first .
6 Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful .
7 If relatives come in with a new resident , begin to get to know them as well .
8 Unless and until scientists come up with a better way , the drug would probably have be administered by a catheter permanently inserted into the brain , a method currently used in treatments for inoperable brain cancer .
9 If soil builds up in a ‘ cone ’ it will heat and eventually rot the crop .
10 If Halifax come back with a decent offer we 'll consider it .
11 If women go out with a bunch of girlfriends or men disappear with ‘ the lads ’ , they too tell their partners when , approximately , they 'll be home .
12 They 'll be yours some day unless Mummie hurries up with a little brother .
13 Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her .
14 Unless Guy came up with an acceptable explanation , the entire Court would be gossiping about them .
15 What falls less easily into place is the judgment about relative importance , urgency , contemporary relevance , nearness to reality ; because Raskolnikov comes over as a very grand and accessible conception , a nineteenth-century bohemian Hamlet was one way of putting it , whereas Verkhovensky is just a wrecker .
16 This was possible because demand went down by a quarter and new supplies were available from the UK North Sea .
17 The man counts the money and they argue for a while , Tod saying nine hundred , the man saying seven , then the man saying six while Tod holds out for a thou , and so on .
18 For three days , while Asmar lingered on in a Beirut hospital , Coleman stayed in the apartment and slept with a gun under his pillow .
19 Flavours rapidly evaporate from hot wort while bitterness requires up to an hour to fully develop .
20 It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone .
21 It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone .
22 For every 100,000 inhabitants , Belgium boasts 32 central bankers , France 31 , Germany 23 , America and Britain both 9 , while Japan gets by on a paltry 5 .
23 They had n't said much to me apart from announcing themselves as Detective-Sergeant Hatchard and Detective Constable White , and even when they got back inside , Hatchard talked to the pathologist while White went off for a snoop around , as policemen do .
24 A pushover try by scrum-half Chris Tynan and another by Gray put the result beyond doubt with Rees kicking a conversion and a second penalty for a 22–0 lead before Gale hit back with a drop-goal and a penalty providing the USA with reward for pressure .
25 Latus has some experience in the No 9 shirt , including the match at Stockton in December , when he made the switch after Kenyon went off with a dislocated shoulder .
26 All four of the Lions ' tries came from the three-quarters , including Anthony Clement , who switched from full-back to right wing after Hunter went off with an injury which puts a big doubt over his immediate tour future .
27 The 30-year-old Warwickshire captain was the selectors ' choice after Lewis broke down with a groin strain .
28 The tabloid stories emerged after Wyman missed out on a video shoot for ‘ High Wire ’ .
29 Four miners were killed after fire broke out on an underground conveyor belt in Asturias on Dec. 22 , while some 280 others escaped .
30 MORE than 30 people spent Christmas huddled together in a youth centre after fire broke out in a block of flats early yesterday .
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