Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One participant has to describe a route traced out on the map so that both speaker and listener follow the identical route . |
| 2 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 3 | A lookout comes through on the radio . |
| 4 | So this was how a submarine came back from a successful patrol ! |
| 5 | A beech burst out like a fungus , matured , rotted , and fell in a cloud of tinder dust amid its struggling offspring . |
| 6 | A recession brought on by the disruption of war and revolution lasted into 1908 but thereafter swift industrial growth coincided with a series of generally good harvests . |
| 7 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 8 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 9 | That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important . |
| 10 | Whilst this statement was made in a case arising out of an alleged assault on a pupil , its relevance surely extends to other punishments which are similarly controlled by the common law . |
| 11 | It 's a bit blocked up at the moment but yeah it would |
| 12 | The rooms , erm we 've tried to this has been a bit tied up since the broadcast , we 've tried to have it fairly cluttery so that kids for instance if they 're not used to sheep , can come and come and have a sniff of of of er you know . |
| 13 | However I did get a bit cheesed off with the movie 's rather plodding pace . |
| 14 | I 'm just a bit pissed off with the way the wallpaper 's hanging ! |
| 15 | ( I even fancied that the prop-wash from our full power had blown the dinghy back a bit to make up for the slight delay in the drop ) . |
| 16 | That 's when the jokes about the missing bit started , for ring doughnuts look just like traditional ones with a bit taken out of the middle . |
| 17 | The road continues south , climbing over a rise with a good retrospective view of the full length of Kingsdale and then makes a long descent to Thornton in Lonsdale after a branch turns off to the right for the A65 at Westhouse . |
| 18 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 19 | Another way into the interior is offered by a stalker 's path from Annat at the head of Loch Torridon ( closed in the later months of the year ) : this leads to the tarns at the foot of Maol Cheandearg with a branch turning off to An Ruadh-stac . |
| 20 | Helping women to stay at home yet giving them an occupation , some money and a branch held out towards the wider community were all worthy goals in Laura 's eyes . |
| 21 | Many kind Friends interest themselves in George Green 's behalf , and I find that by this day 's post an application has been made for a specimen of his hand-writing etc. and a hope held out of a situation ( in a Counting house , I believe ) , but if you were willing to take him , and if it could be arranged in other points , he would greatly prefer being in your establishment to any thing else . |
| 22 | Large plants and containers make this impractical , and it is then a case of loosening the soil-ball at the sides with a stick pushed down against the inside wall of the container . |
| 23 | With the collapse of communism , moreover , a split opened up among the Communists . |
| 24 | The extreme anti Jewish sentiments expressed in letters from soldiers at the Front , though evidently a small minority of the overall services ’ mail , also sometimes included direct references to Hitler 's stance on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , interpreting the war in classical Nazi fashion as a struggle brought about by the Jews and destined to end in their destruction . |
| 25 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 26 | My proposal asks a great deal of many of you : time , energy , commitment , a willingness to go along with a plan which there is not time to discuss at length , and with ideas which I do n't imagine will win universal approval . |
| 27 | But the House of Love do offer something of their own — a willingness to play around with the pace of the music , cutting off the power to switch suddenly into a softer , more lyrical approach . |
| 28 | I was born in Wapping in the year nineteen hundred and six , my father was a docker , one of my earliest recollections is of the dock strike of nineteen hundred and eleven , in which I played a part lining up at the soup kitchens to get soup for the family . |
| 29 | Two days earlier , acting on her own behalf and that of her children , the widow of Jean-Baptiste Lully , Madeleine Lambert , sold all the remaining books of Lully 's music to Jean Baptiste Christophe Ballard in accordance with a sentence handed down by the courts of Châtelet de Paris the previous day ( 16 July 1714 ) . |
| 30 | However , in mid-February an Interior Ministry spokesman insisted that the idea that Markov had been assassinated by the Bulgarian security service was a fiction put about by the British press , and he accused the Sunday Times of having invented the umbrella scenario after British agents had planted the poisoned pellet on Markov 's body . |