Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long breakfast , we went into the Town to buy last minute chocolates for our families before visiting the Ferris wheel for a champagne meal overlooking the entire city . |
| 2 | After the traversal program has determined the order in which links will be crossed , a printing program takes the semantic net and the paragraphs and produces a camera-ready document . |
| 3 | The Lombard , Illinois-based Dauphin Technology Inc company developing the DTR-1 ‘ world 's smallest 80486 computer ’ ( CI No 2,085 ) , has signed IBM Corp to a $150m contract to make the handheld device at its Austin Industrial Business Center in Austin , Texas . |
| 4 | A trial pack comprising the three primary colours plus black , white and a colourless bar are available in Slim and Original size . |
| 5 | An even more marked hiatus in the occupation sequence was recorded in the limited excavations in Heave Acre , alongside the Dorchester road , where traces of Flavian activity were overlain by a silt accumulation spanning the second century at least . |
| 6 | But you must wait for good weather to appreciate the mighty Picos de Europa range of mountains , just follow the river Deva through the dramatic La Hermida Defile ravine to the pretty Alpinesque town of Potes and on the Fuente Dé , where a cable car ascends the last 800 metres up to the sheer rock face . |
| 7 | The Boy Nigel is supervising , sitting on a kitchen chair clutching a blue Victorian ciderhouse mug , china , so as not to appall the customers with the sight of this and that lurking in the golden brew . |
| 8 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 9 | Where a rating authority had a statutory power , but no duty , to refund rates overpaid by mistake , the House of Lords granted judicial review and ordered repayment where the reasons given by the authority for its refusal to repay were held not to be valid . |
| 10 | Navan appointed a consultancy group to undertake a pre-feasibility study and was involved in discussions with a major North American mining group . |
| 11 | A mini-buying stampede pushed the leading FT-SE 100 Index to 2741.8 , a jump of 32.2 points as investors piled into the market to snap up bargains . |
| 12 | ST preparations may be left uncovered but sprayed with a polyurethane resin to give a protected surface for general microscopy ( Moussa , 1976 , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | THE Evening News was inundated with entries for a Thunderbirds competition to build the best Tracy Island after it was shown on Blue Peter . |
| 14 | The conventional way of starting a course race using an imaginary line between two designated points , usually a boat and a buoy . |
| 15 | We have seen how Labour made its re-emergence as a governing force in 1964 on the basis of a need for sweeping ‘ modernisation ’ and planning , pulling together a support bloc spanning the left and managerial technocrats , and how the expectations raised in the early Wilson period were substantially frustrated . |
| 16 | A chest radiograph revealed a patchy infiltrate in the left lower lobe . |
| 17 | The methodology employed has three basic elements : a literature review to establish the necessary conceptual framework ; the collection of existing data from relevant sources ; an empirical study of Glasgow University , Glasgow Polytechnic and Paisley College of Technology , with some comparison of their treatment of non-traditional students . |
| 18 | BISHOP KONSTANT donned a hard hat on a building site to cut the first turf for a new £1.2 million hall of residence at Trinity and All Saints , Horsforth , a College of the University of Leeds . |
| 19 | It was high tide and on the wharf the swing-bridge was open to allow a toy ship to enter the toy-town dry-dock . |
| 20 | ‘ We bought a greenfield site to build a new set of studios . |
| 21 | The CGI nominates a negotiating committee to negotiate the annual ( or bi-annual ) convenios covering pay and a wide variety of conditions . |
| 22 | I also enclose a sketch map showing the exact location . |
| 23 | While she was deciding whether to support the Denver Broncos or the Pittsburgh Pederasts ( whatever ) , I sneaked into the bedroom and nearly had a heart attack to find a three-foot Paddington Bear propped up on the pillow . |
| 24 | When the reality is that a cottage pie housing a six-year-old ingredient could probably qualify as a listed dwelling . |
| 25 | On top , a sand/cement screed gives a solid , level floor finish . |
| 26 | A woman change master at a computer company began an important project this way . |
| 27 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 28 | A computer error moved a decimal place one unit to the right . |
| 29 | A computer word holds a fixed number of bits , in a range from about 12 to 64 , and we number these bit positions consecutively , starting at zero at the right-hand or least-significant end . |
| 30 | Why might a computer designer choose the first scheme ? |