Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | compatibility with existing phonographs did not matter , because dictation cylinders rotated at a different speed anyway . |
| 2 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 3 | Calves sold well in a steady trade , with continental bulls peaking at £248 , while heifer calves sold to a top of £200 . |
| 4 | The huge " club fender " of early Edwardian times should have held on to its proper suggestions of Christmas , when a group of laughing guests sat there , full glasses in their hands , while child actors performed in a glittering pantomime , entrances and exits from behind the Christmas tree . |
| 5 | It is impossible to gauge whether Zealot activity originated from a single headquarters , or whether it consisted of a multitude of groups operating independently . |
| 6 | As shopping centres prepared for a busy Saturday , anti-terrorist chief Commander David Tucker warned the IRA could strike in any major city . |
| 7 | His pledge was derided as ‘ a grievance procedure for Christians thrown to the lions ’ when opt-out heads met for a somewhat valedictory national conference last week . |
| 8 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 9 | PALESTINIAN gunmen shot and wounded an Israeli soldier in the occu pied West Bank yesterday , as army patrols searched for a kidnapped border guard . |