Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August , a trial burning produced a corrosive black cloud which caused damage worth millions of pounds to new cars stored nearby . |
| 2 | ‘ When a submarine 's had a spectacular patrol , yes . |
| 3 | This involves stimulating through microelectrodes of the son used in single unit recording studies ( see below ) , with very low currents at a level calculated to affect a small population of adjacent cells or fibres . |
| 4 | Santa Cruz Inc 's chief executive officer Larry Michels ' decision to retire maybe as much as a year ago has not run smoothly , with the ensuing hunt for a successor failing to snare a likely replacement . |
| 5 | John Heath-Stubbs , another Oxford man who may count as the poet of the group , was a lifelong Conservative and High Churchman in reaction to a boyhood spent attending a progressive school in the Isle of |
| 6 | Emergency services , fell search and rescue teams and RAF and Royal Navy helicopters were called in after a driver reported seeing a light aircraft flying just feet above his vehicle in the area between Consett and the Derwent Reservoir . |
| 7 | If a Board chose to follow a generous policy , for example of paying outdoor relief to the unemployed , and could persuade local ratepayers to finance it , the central authority had some difficulty in stopping such action unless corrupt use of the money or the raising of excessive loans could be proved . |
| 8 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 9 | A parliamentary enactment whose effect would be the destruction of any recognisable form of democracy ( for example , a measure purporting to deprive a substantial section of the population of the vote on the grounds of their hostility to Government policies ) could not consistently be applied by the courts as law . |
| 10 | Second , if a checklist claims to provide a developmental sequence , the validity of this claim will affect the utility of the scale in practice . |
| 11 | A friend with a Spitfire has bought a similar machine and a small group will no doubt emerge to enjoy this new game . |
| 12 | Under current practice a user wanting to access a central data base in order to determine boundary conditions , will have to go through the following procedure ( similar to the remote operator , discussed earlier ) : I ) identify all relevant drawings , 2 ) inspect the relevant drawings to determine the required information , 3 ) use the information to determine interference . |
| 13 | SBS is a term used to describe a vague , but apparently real , workplace problem , and may be suspected where staff complain of ill-health , headaches or problems with sore eyes , noses and throats . |
| 14 | For a partnership wishing to purchase a new Ford van totally on credit terms under the 1974 Act , the following formula is applied to ascertain the maximum credit available : |
| 15 | Finally , that a poet has written a good poem does not mean he or she is always capable of another , and to read Duck 's career as an arrested development may be sentimental . |
| 16 | As a juror , would you find that a defendant had committed a serious crime on such a basis ? |
| 17 | Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen . |
| 18 | Though not used by homoeopathic pharmacies in this country for potencies below the 1M , it is used commercially in Belgium for all potencies , and is also used when a practitioner has to make a specific potency for a particular patient , such as a potency of chloroform for a case of chloroform allergy . |
| 19 | The practical question which this paper also addresses is ‘ how can one tell when and whether a lawyer has done a good job ? ’ . |
| 20 | Even inset boards , where a child has to match a certain shape , e.g. a lorry to its silhouette , are difficult for the beginner who does n't always realise that he is trying to put it in upside-down . |
| 21 | An elderly couple who survived an arson attack on their flat say a council failed to repair a defective smoke alarm . |
| 22 | Workmen renovating a pub have made a gruesome discovery … a grave containing a horse 's head . |
| 23 | This grouping sought to oppose the civil rights programme in which Truman called for the establishment of a more powerful Fair Employment Practices Commission , a law to make lynching a Federal crime , and the removal of obstacles preventing blacks from voting . |
| 24 | Carmen Miranda 's image was deliberately used as a vehicle to help consolidate a commercial mnage trois between the Brazilian singer , the US-Latin American ‘ good neighbour ’ policy and the banana . |
| 25 | Carmen Miranda 's image was deliberately used as a vehicle to help consolidate a commercial mnage trois between the Brazilian singer , the US-Latin American ‘ good neighbour ’ policy and the banana . |
| 26 | Two Winslow Homers , an oil and a watercolour , were both somewhat problematic : ‘ The unruly calf ’ , from the Pauline Woolworth Trust , showing a boy trying to coax a tethered calf to move ( lot 36 est. $1–1.5 million ) was very flat but still found a private buyer at $1.1 million ( £687,500 ) . |
| 27 | has arisen where a judge has passed a personal view about a woman , has n't he . |
| 28 | Thus the proportion of records stored as synonyms will be roughly equivalent to half the packing density in a file created using a single-pass load , and with single record buckets . |
| 29 | Anyone who chooses to be a teacher deserves to have a rotten life . |
| 30 | But it is most evident whenever a teacher has developed a real interest in some school subject or area of the curriculum , often the result of some form of limited subject specialisation by the teacher . |