Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disheartened army continued towards Taunton where , hearing of the superior army approaching from London , Warbeck slipped away . |
| 2 | The drive to Templeton , her Old Westbury , Long Island mansion , sweeps through a verdant meadow dotted with horse jumps , past an avenue of linden trees ( planted by her uncle-in-law J.S. Phipps in 1906 ) , and on towards a spectacular ‘ moon gate ’ trellisage — Mrs Guest 's own invention — which frames in its circled centre a vista of kitchen gardens , cutting gardens , flamboyant topiary , and the house itself , build of old weathered brick and weather- board in the Twenties Wiltshire Queen Anne vernacular . |
| 3 | A moody silence descended between brother and sister , and after a judicious interval , Belinda painted a smile on her face and joined them , hoping her cheeks were not as flushed as they felt . |
| 4 | On 11 November 1918 , at eleven hundred hours , hostilities ceased and a grateful nation stood in silence for three minutes when , on a railway carriage in the forest of Compiegne , the Armistice was signed . |
| 5 | We moved through the town and up a hilly field covered with vines before we entered a forest where the branches grew close above the path . |
| 6 | A rich chuckle started in Madame Rochard 's stomach and gurgled up to her lips . |
| 7 | Although it is now clear that Sutherland 's attempt to fit , indeed squash , corporate crime into his theory of differential association has not proved comfortable , and that his concentration on the economic as opposed to the physical and social effects of corporate crime made his study too one-sided , it none the less did , at the time , constitute a rich legacy to bequeath to criminology . |
| 8 | What I am speculating — and it can be no more than a retrospective speculation based on reports from sportsmen themselves — is that black parents were too preoccupied with maintaining a material existence to attend to sport : they were too busy making ends meet . |
| 9 | In a typical example , the land will be bought by a development company ; a geological survey done by surveyors ; plans drawn up by architects ; the plans submitted to the local authority for approval and to check that they comply with the Building Regulations , which lay down minimum standards for public health and safety ; a builder engaged to construct the houses , who may sub-contract certain aspects of the work to specialist firms . |
| 10 | For centuries Japan had a dual system of rule : a reigning emperor based at Kyoto and a military government whose seat was normally outside the capital . |
| 11 | Using these techniques , a network of links between many finds and archaeological layers ( contexts ) form a dated framework used to date other finds and contexts . |
| 12 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 13 | By the second century B.C. they were experimenting with a volcanic earth found near Vesuvius and named pozzolana after the town of Pozzuoli there . |
| 14 | Anne changed into a wine-coloured suit made by Mrs Redmond to go away . |
| 15 | In terms of a tripartite agreement reached between Botswana , Zimbabwe and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , as from the end of July 1989 the refugee status of Zimbabweans at the Dukwe refugee camp was terminated , and almost all the 600 former refugees returned home freely and voluntarily [ for relations with Zimbabwe and dispute over activities at Dukwe refugee camp see pp. 33445 ; 35693 ] . |
| 16 | She would be considered a slut if she did , and since it is almost unheard of for a Ugandan man to do without sex for a year , her husband would usually seek another woman . |
| 17 | The proposal came at a meeting organised by the National Consumer 's Council , a representative body established by statute in 1975 . |
| 18 | BBC engineers are divided between hacking a Scandinavian proposal to standardise across Europe on eight-channel sound in a gaggle of different languages or , as many want , to go for fewer channels carrying the kind of sound quality available on the new digital discs that are now in British shops . |
| 19 | One small group heads for Iran ; the rest fly through the Soviet Union , across the battlefields of Afghanistan and past the guns of Pakistani poachers to the monsoon-soaked plains of India , where they pass a lazy winter feeding on plants . |
| 20 | ( 5 ) Last , among the recent fossil finds there has been the discovery of a superficially hagfish-like animal which carries a feeding apparatus consisting of conodonts . |
| 21 | The problem is whether such a simplifying assumption does in fact adequately recognise these connections . |
| 22 | The third , Rothmans International , a multi-national company based in Britain but controlled from South Africa , manufactures the brands Rothmans , Dunhill and Peter Stuyvesant [ 11 ] . |
| 23 | However , a multi-oppression approach demonstrated to youth workers once and for all the importance of making the connections , and that Girls ' Work is Youth Work . |
| 24 | Her entry was centred on a climber constructed from old Ordnance Survey maps mounting a papier-mâché mountain surrounded by artifacts supporting the slogan ‘ Climb Every Mountain , Ford Every Stream , Follow Every Highway , With Maps that are Supreme ’ . |
| 25 | The family is staying in a private apartment loaned by Fergie 's friend , brewing heir Peter Greenall . |
| 26 | The public road to Killilan has for long been the usual route taken by motorists wishing to see the Falls of Glomach , permission to use a private road continuing into Glen Elchaig being a formality . |
| 27 | [ In the Court of Appeal Pickin successfully argued that this case was authority for the House of Lords refusing to give effect to a private Act obtained by fraud . ] |
| 28 | Later , an appointment was arranged for a private detective to call at Montpelier Walk . |
| 29 | A private smile murmured on Holly 's face … |
| 30 | Table B contains the model form for a private company limited by shares . |