Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position of the hole for the ballvalve stem may be dictated by a backplate or specially strengthened section near the top of the cistern . |
| 2 | To the extent that academic libraries serve a captive and easily defined audience , their collection development is more straight forward than , say , in the public library sphere . |
| 3 | For him , Bridgnorth would always be associated with the antics of a ghost that obviously liked railway engines and would appear from time to time to warn of impending accidents . |
| 4 | Renew contacts with old friends Saturday or drop in on a parent or much loved relative . |
| 5 | However , I had to give in when , a few days later , Christopher returned from school and informed me that his teacher said a dog added to the character of a child and also taught compassion . |
| 6 | It is a question that immediately caused irritation in the office of Israel 's official spokesman . |
| 7 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 8 | With a stout and newly repaired fence between them , Seb felt he could afford to smile at her . |
| 9 | Senghor himself had spent much of the 1930s after graduating from university as a teacher and well known poet in France . |
| 10 | In the second phase of the experiment Pavlov sounded a buzzer and immediately placed meat powder in the dog 's mouth . |
| 11 | The result was a general and generally admitted inferiority of British men-of-war to those of France . |
| 12 | Although real cream cheese may be made from real cream it is n't real cheese , since it is not a curd but simply ripened cream , semi-solidified and drained of its fluid content . |
| 13 | I dawdled around for a while and then headed south . |
| 14 | I suggest that we delay announcing our existence to the press until we have a name and clearly stated function . |
| 15 | To have a register and fully annotated report of all the training currently offered by all denominations , and other relevant organizations . |
| 16 | He is most famous for his political philosophy , which is embodied in his Elements of Law , completed by 1640 though not published until 1650 ; in his De Cive ( ‘ On the Citizen ’ ) of 1642 ; and , in particular , in his Leviathan ( 1651 ) , a classic and perenially studied account of man 's move from a primitive state of nature , in which life is ‘ solitary , poor , nasty , brutish , and short ’ , into an organized society , with absolute power vested in the hands of a supreme authority . |
| 17 | Opening rounds of 85 and 78 at the qualifying school in Montpellier have wrecked his chance of a 1993 tour card and he is close to quitting a game that once promised millionaire status . |
| 18 | The ceremonial silver headdress ( second right ) is usually worn by a bride or newly wed woman . |
| 19 | The prolonged crying of a well-fed and recently changed baby can not be ignored , however hard the parents may try to develop an impervious barrier against what might seem an unremitting demand . |
| 20 | a nominee or jointly owned company |
| 21 | Zhu Rongji , a Vice-Premier and newly elected member of the standing committee of the CCP politburo , visited the United Kingdom , Finland , Denmark , Sweden and Norway between Nov. 15 and Dec. 3 [ for Zhu 's discussions on Hong Kong during his visit to London see this page ] . |
| 22 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |