Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 2 | She laughed , and the veil blew out like a flag . |
| 3 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 4 | In a genre noted for its shoddiness and sensationalism , this playing memoir of a season with Millwall in the mid-1970s stands out as a truthful and often painful account of the player 's lot . |
| 5 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 6 | For crude oil , Quan ( 1992 ) found that the spot price led the futures price by over a month , and this unusual result was attributed to the dominance of the spot market for oil . |
| 7 | He let the sentence trail off into a silence that vibrated . |
| 8 | Together , the three of them removed the boards which formed the trough and the natron ran off in a tide of white powder on to the floor . |
| 9 | Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp , ‘ When the artists move in on a way of life , that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay ’ , but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty . |
| 10 | Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp , ‘ When the artists move in on a way of life , that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay ’ , but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty . |
| 11 | The afternoon kicks off with a tour of the former Delorean complex including a trip around the original test track . |
| 12 | Er are the toilets kept up to a high standard ? |
| 13 | The case arose out of a letter sent by the Attorney General in the summer of 1988 to booksellers handling Spycatcher warning them they were in contempt of court , because an injunction had been obtained to stop publication of extracts of the book in several national newspapers . |
| 14 | The case arose out of a fatal road accident in Illinois , the plaintiff 's parents having been killed as a result of a head-on collision between their Volkswagen Rabbit and another vehicle . |
| 15 | The judge had told the jury of what they had to be satisfied before convicting any of the accused , but the case cried out for a direction which amounted to the reverse side of the coin , namely , that they should not convict any person who was in their charge simply because of his association with others . |
| 16 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
| 17 | The computer went down for a while , it 's probably full of water |
| 18 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 19 | Although the Germans bounced back with a 4-1 defeat of Uruguay four days later , the Brazilian experience has left its scars . |
| 20 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 21 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 22 | She thought he was going to kiss her , but it did n't happen , because the door was pushed open and the clerk came in with a pile of reports from other departments . |
| 23 | Past the reserve look out for a viewpoint over Loch Avich . |
| 24 | From time to time light showers blew over , but the squadron plodded on with a mute , masochistic determination . |
| 25 | And then the present falls out with a hat . |
| 26 | ‘ The times cry out for a dramatic change in our relationship to our neighbour , the Earth and , at root to God . |
| 27 | The back door of the kitchen led out onto a slate-paved path at the foot of three steep terraces giving much lebensraum to many varieties of voracious weeds and scrubby elder bushes . |
| 28 | Lurching , grabbed flailing images blurted by , half opaque , bleached , before the contrast tightened down to a murky blackness . |
| 29 | Then follows more hearsay evidence , and the trail peters out on a question mark . |
| 30 | A quarter of a mile further on the lane widened out into a small clearing in the trees . |