Example sentences of "along [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Once a celebrity has agreed to be a guest , the researcher assigned to him or her will go along for an exploratory conversation .
2 There were literally thousands of competitors from all the London boroughs , along with an equal number of supporters and spectators .
3 In January 1990 the Yugoslav federal presidency issued a proposal for a new constitution , along with an alternative proposal from Slovenia calling for the transformation of Yugoslavia into a confederation rather than a federal state .
4 Some weeks later , I receive a note of thanks along with an engraved beermug .
5 His activities had been known to some antislavery figures long before , but in 1814 his Mitigation of Slavery was published along with an extensive and favourable account by the Scots abolitionist William Dickson in the form of Letters to Thomas Clarkson .
6 The Defence Intelligence Agency ( DIA ) , has to get along with an annual budget of only $1 billion .
7 Due for completion later this year , the precinct will also include 63 individual shop units along with an upper food court with seating for 420 people .
8 Just as his theoretical awareness of the importance of sense-experience as a basis for science went along with an increasing interest in practical , experimental investigation of the world , so his theoretical advocacy of Epicurean atomism went along with his actual use of it in his own work ; for example , in an account he gave of various optical phenomena produced by the sun .
9 The lime green leaves of compact shrub Choisya ternata Sundance provide a welcome splash of light to the winter garden ; keep in a sheltered spot , along with an aromatic bay tree , clipped to a classy pyramid or box shape .
10 The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time .
11 The supernatural performances of the characters of traditional mythology have become the natural real-life activities of twentieth-century space travellers ; and this has occurred along with an apparent lessening of the gap between man and other animals .
12 In his entourage of personal servants and clients , along with an Irish doctor and scholar-poet ( who seems to have stayed for nearly thirty years in Charles 's circle ) , he had a court-jester .
13 A few days later Kiley Puma , Suzy 's eighteen-year-old daughter , found two motorcycle helmets in a laundry basket in her mother 's apartment , along with an empty vodka bottle and a pair of Seth 's pants .
14 The other lad who made a commitment came as a non-believer but was willing to come along with an open mind and on studying the gospels came to believe Jesus was indeed who he said he was and shortly after made his commitment .
15 Along with all the motorbikes , they contribute to the traffic problem which is probably one of the worst in the world , and certainly one of Taiwan 's major problems , along with an over-competitive educational system and political isolation . ’
16 His remarks were made when the environment and general services committee were discussing pedestrianisation plans for the High Street , along with an advisory cycle route through the centre .
17 Now Harwell has decided to help nature along with an active policy of land management for wildlife .
18 a wide variety of travel texts and periodicals to supplement sets of specialist textbooks are provided along with an adequate supply of up to date technical directories , guides and brochures to support practical exercises and assignments .
19 By now Mick and Paddy had arrived and we took turns , along with an old man and a little girl , to scoop out basins of water .
20 As part of the post-war baby bulge , I am confidently expecting to spend at least 20 years in retirement along with an unprecedented number of my peers .
21 No news for 6 months then she came along with an anal fissure , she 'd not had any stomach problems and in fact had only taken the Arg Nit LM3 for 2 or 3 days till the headache went .
22 As the euphoria had gone along with an irrational faith in the Gaullist saviour , so the deepening disillusionment of 1945 , essentially an adjustment to reality , was reflected in a desanctification of the saviour figure .
23 Crusoe 's fabled isle contained all he needed to sustain life — given , that is , that he had rescued so much of use from the wreck , not forgetting a Bible ; and Defoe 's most compelling point was that the island is a self-sufficient place to anyone who can bring courage to the task of living in it , along with an inherited faith and a few tools .
24 She dreamed of him hurtling along in an open roadster , smiling at a blonde head and two scarlet-nailed hands spinning the wheel , reckless on the deep-banked lanes near the summer school .
25 A bit of bother with walkers trudging through his land can soon be sorted out by nipping along to an agricultural auction and purchasing some huge stinking cows .
26 You creep along to an open doorway .
27 In reality it becomes almost impossible to find this amount in the budget , and projects have to limp along on an underfunded basis or with the overseas donor financing an increasing proportion of the total costs .
28 But now women are meant to go along on an even keel and when something upsets them they think tha e , I should n't be able to express this any more , so I 'll go to the G P and he 'll give me something and then the emotions will go away , but unfortunately they do n't go away , they just go wandering , they 'll come back again at another point .
29 On his way through the underground roads , he met a miner who told him of having seen heavy machinery being moved along by an unknown force .
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