Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SparKit-40/Mbus manufacturing kit reportedly includes manufacturing diagnostics and everything a cloner needs to knock off a Sparcstation 2 compatible for $10,000 . |
| 2 | If a retailer wants to find out the value of sales for each metre of shelf space in a shop , he needs first to find out what the TOTAL shelf measurement is , by measuring each shelf and adding the lengths together . |
| 3 | A masked robber armed with a shotgun has held up a newsagent 's shop . |
| 4 | A hedgehog tries to climb up the net and when it hears you approach it promptly rolls up into a ball . |
| 5 | Where a child has moved around a great deal it may be difficult to determine where he ordinarily resides . |
| 6 | Numberless are the ministers who have come to grief at the height of their peroration as a child has let out a deep sigh , articulating the inner feelings of some and distracting into amusement the rest of the congregation who were listening . |
| 7 | Wait until a ferret fitted with a transmitter has taken up a fixed position down a burrow . |
| 8 | This argument was persuasively propounded by the director of the Hastings Center for Medical Ethics , who concluded that ‘ … after a person has lived out a natural life span [ eg , into the late 70s or early 80s ] , medical care should no longer be oriented to resisting death … [ but ] will be limited to the relief of suffering ’ . |
| 9 | A FATHER has tracked down the love child he never saw — after 34 years . |
| 10 | This is because , after a sunbird has sucked out the nectar from a flower , the flower takes some time to replenish its nectaries . |
| 11 | When a man has cut down a bamboo it becomes a straight pole with a cylindrical hole down the middle , but that is not how it appears in the wild . |
| 12 | A man has held up a shop assistant at gunpoint . |
| 13 | A relative has put up a £1,000 reward for information on the attacker . |
| 14 | For once a company has taken on the risks they are not easy to transfer . |
| 15 | The first coordinate value of a pair refers to position down the page from the top , while the second coordinate is the distance across the paper from the left . |
| 16 | A solicitor fails to draw up a will within a reasonable time for a client who subsequently dies . |
| 17 | Various factors could prevent the tenant from commencing to trade within a specified period and where a tenant has fitted out the premises and is paying a full rent ( or using up a rent free period ) the tenant would hopefully only delay opening for trade for a good reason . |
| 18 | If an architecture fails to take over the mainstream computer market in its first ten years , it 's not likely ever to do so . |
| 19 | Personality development is impaired when an individual has shut down a broad range of feelings and ways of relating , in the belief , unconsciously arrived at , that it is unsafe to do otherwise . |