Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good hash function will distribute values uniformly throughout a waiting array ( used for access ) called the hash table . |
| 2 | Her red lipstick was smudged and she had n't bothered to pin up her hair properly at the sides . |
| 3 | Hence , the person who used the sulk response successfully in the past will continue to use it , because it worked . |
| 4 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 5 | Mrs Sutcliffe , wearing dark tinted glasses , listened carefully in the packed public benches as Mr Lightman read out an affidavit by Oliver Duke , once the boyfriend of Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones , in which he admitted taking part in a scheme to get the money secretly from the newspaper to Mrs Sutcliffe . |
| 6 | Breathe in from the diaphragm slowly through the chest to the mouth counting 1-2-3-4 then blow it back to the diaphragm with another 1-2-3-4 . |
| 7 | To promote OTC products successfully through the high street chains nowadays , you have to have a substantial turnover ( £10–15m or so ) to be able to afford the TV advertising . |
| 8 | In other countries too , inflation will be a worry right at the start of the coming upswing . |
| 9 | The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation . |
| 10 | So there was that allocation of system design responsibility right at the outset and that determined who would write the specification for what . |
| 11 | So erm you see that 's , that 's why when we had this we paid somebody to put this in cos the gas company would n't put my my boiler right out the back . |
| 12 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 13 | She must have made a huge error in giving change somewhere along the line and she felt defeated . |
| 14 | ‘ There is a change somewhere in the east . |
| 15 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 16 | This was no kind of place to be caught reading in : a macho gay bar in a five-fathom basement somewhere beneath the charred East Twenties . |
| 17 | Therefore for these people it may be sensible to attend both Fellowships right from the start . |
| 18 | Our education programme changes attitudes slowly in an environment where selfish values grow even faster . |
| 19 | I think it would prefer to blame somebody who 's already responsible — as you 'll know if you really do read the papers — for every dead dog and blocked drain right across the world . |
| 20 | A dedication to Cautes indicates the presence somewhere of a Mithraeum . |
| 21 | a move and that really he 's quite fortunate to have a buyer somewhere within the price he wanted . |
| 22 | But clearly we can not blame a single organic agent for the simultaneous extinction of all the varied and unrelated groups of dinosaurs , the pterosaurs , the marine reptiles , the ammonites , the belemnites , the rudistids and many minor groups besides at the end of the Mesozoic . |
| 23 | Few can rival the Natural History Museum 's offer of drinks beneath its dinosaur , but Christmas and new-year parties have become a nice little earner for museums and galleries right across the country . |
| 24 | Until the industrial action frustrated plans for more formal INSET workshops , the open nature of the school 's formal consultative procedures , and the vigour and commitment of key individuals , seems to have spread discussion of library matters and project-involvement widely across the school . |
| 25 | He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth . |
| 26 | Tantalisingly , at night , I might hear the plaintive hoot of a tawny owl somewhere in the trees , beyond my little world . |
| 27 | And at seven thirty , Karen found herself sipping sherry in a borrowed frock and shaking fingers politely with a lawyer and his wife , whom she disliked quite intensely after fifty seconds . |
| 28 | We went into Sheffield right into the city and went to a pub . |
| 29 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 30 | He did n't answer it personally , eventually about three weeks afterwards I got the letter from Customs and Excise , who deal with this , saying , in a rather remarkable last paragraph , We have to charge V A T right across the board . |