Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The localised heat draws oils from the skin and blood to the surface ; over the years permanently dilated blood vessels appear and brown pigmentation due to leaks from those vessels appear in a reticular pattern on the shins of old people . |
| 2 | To a true graph theorist , a tree is a connected graph with no cycles . |
| 3 | How could people turn a blind eye or a deaf ear to the horrors that they suffered ? |
| 4 | Luv to all down there in the Eternal City and be assured I turn a deaf ear to the rumours that it is a cesspit . |
| 5 | The solid bulk of the nation was as dedicated as ever to the war , phlegmatic and unquestioning , turning a closed mind and a deaf ear to the tales men brought back from Verdun , in much the same way as when , to the succeeding generation , rumours began to filter out from the concentration camps . |
| 6 | Instead of a faceless figure behind the scenes , he was obviously a person who counted . |
| 7 | He had a pleasant apartment on the outskirts of Moscow with his young wife and baby daughter , and hoped to achieve a small dacha . |
| 8 | ‘ Anna Karenina ’ has other plots which introduce the story of Anna , her husband and lover and provides a rich contrast to the events involving these three parties . |
| 9 | It is an ambling Irish field painted in broad , sweeping shades of green ; a rich green for the trees , a lighter green for the grass . |
| 10 | Calero passed the message on confidently to a rich supporter in the suburbs of New Haven , Connecticut : ‘ God wants freedom in Nicaragua . ’ |
| 11 | This was not a controlled trial but a retrospective assessment of the patients seen over the previous seven years . |
| 12 | ‘ And I guess it wo n't be too long before you both have some kids of your own , ’ she added , giving the beautiful blonde girl a friendly dig in the ribs . |
| 13 | The wool gave off a friendly smell of the dogs who had been lying on it . |
| 14 | Hence rhyme , you can see , is a two-edged weapon in the hands of a poet . |
| 15 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |
| 16 | But the OFT could outlaw the plan if it uncovers a back-door deal between the banks to penalise customers who stay in the black . |
| 17 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 18 | The aims of the research are : to undertake a wide-ranging review of the priority assessment techniques applied by local authorities to transport projects ; to apply a representative sample of the techniques to a common set of projects ; and to distill the experience gained through the first two stages , together with knowledge of recent developments in the theory and practice of multiple criteria analysis into a computer-based priority assessment package . |
| 19 | The sonnet stands not only as an account of some private instance but as a representative account of the pressures and inevitable containment of individuals by powerful forces outside their control . |
| 20 | However , we soon stopped smiling when it started to rain and the wind got up ; the sealant , which had n't yet hardened , started to dilute , and one by one the secondary glazing panels were blown in. the wind started to blow bubbles in the gooey sealant , which then floated around the room , only to burst and leave a sticky mess on the carpets and furniture . |
| 21 | At intervals , re-crossing his cramped legs humped on the hassock of his kit-bag , his boot struck Meredith 's shin and he muttered an apology , to which Meredith responded with a polite shrug of the shoulders . |
| 22 | They pointed out that , because of a simultaneous fall in the numbers of unemployed and of teenagers , expenditure per head on training had been growing rapidly since the mid-1980s . |
| 23 | It was a multi-pronged attack on the Palestinians in Lebanon . |
| 24 | Give erm a right smack across the chops |
| 25 | She was making a nice neat pile of the stuff she 'd cut down , while she made a right mess of the pathways I 'd so carefully set up . |
| 26 | As a result of this special interest he made a topographical index to the drawings in the Soane Museum . |
| 27 | A rainy-afternoon refuge for the children or just a wonderful place to relax — whatever the weather ! |
| 28 | Straightening of water courses , together with mill and fishpond construction , may be an explanation , and occasionally the old course can be seen as a dry riverbed in the fields with the boundary still following it . |
| 29 | Sometimes I wished he could have been harder on long-winded questioners , at others that he would resist the temptation to get into a private clinch with the politicians . |
| 30 | Farmer , Robert Wallace has re-stocked a private woodland with the animals and is raising them for their meat . |