Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think so , ’ she said , straightening in her seat and looking around like someone who 'd fallen asleep on a long journey and awoken in an unfamiliar place . |
| 2 | Kurt , 25 , says : ‘ I 've fallen asleep in a live show quite a few times . |
| 3 | One moment she was sobbing her heart out , then , lulled by the bearlike warmth of his chest and the comforting shelter of his great arms and shoulders , she had fallen asleep like a child . |
| 4 | Last week 's launch was delayed due to a ‘ legal technicality ’ , said a DoH spokesman . |
| 5 | The implementation of privatization legislation was delayed due to a decision on Nov. 6 by the Czech Minister for Privatization , Tomas Jezek , who said that too little time had been allowed for compiling the list of companies suitable for privatization . |
| 6 | A man with skin like an old passion fruit lay asleep under a butterwood tree , a machete in his loosed grip . |
| 7 | Proper regulation of banks , together with the generally lower interest rates made possible by a stable currency , also reduced worries about the property market . |
| 8 | THE MOTHER of a five-week-old girl was critically ill but improving last night after undergoing a liver transplant made possible by a television appeal . |
| 9 | Attachment may be the result of friction , locking soil into irregularities in the surface or electrostatic attraction where soil and surface have opposite charges , or from chemical interaction between soil and surface made possible by a change of state of both at the interface . |
| 10 | It is a stunning image made possible by a freak set of weather conditions . |
| 11 | Thus , in the UK power is concentrated in the cabinet , a situation made possible by a weak legislature and strong political parties . |
| 12 | The major achievement of a meeting in Moscow on March 13 of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) was the agreement on repayment of the foreign debt of the former Soviet Union , made possible by a Ukrainian change of policy . |
| 13 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 14 | This doubt had been in my mind for some time but the research was undertaken due to a number of reasons . |
| 15 | For this reason the range of offices was in some ways wider than we would think normal in a modern bureaucracy ; and , since the winning of support was quite as important as the conduct of business , influential men were able to accumulate posts . |
| 16 | It was presented ‘ for outstanding care for his father , who was paralysed due to a stroke . ’ |
| 17 | Send also any balance NI contributions or tax due with a payslip , to the Inland Revenue Accounts Office . |
| 18 | A MAN hanged himself in his bedroom after he became depressed about a break-up with his girlfriend . |
| 19 | In their longitudinal study , they were surprised how many of the women who had been considered to have a supportive marital relationship when first interviewed became depressed after a later crisis . |
| 20 | Kevin Brock , laid low by a virus , is out of the Newcastle line-up , but Paul Bracewell is likely to shrug off a toe injury . |
| 21 | The result is that pin 10 goes low for a fixed period determined by the values of C1 and R2 ; approximately 0.1 seconds with the values given . |
| 22 | It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them . |
| 23 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |
| 24 | Paleontology had always had a geographical dimension , and this was exploited more thoroughly as the exploration of the fossil record became possible on a world-wide scale . |
| 25 | Devlin and O'Cathain found that of 122 children consecutively referred , 22 became dry after a structured interview ( with the child alone as well as with a parent ) , advice on personal hygiene and cleanliness training , daily bladder exercises , and provision of a ‘ star chart . ’ |
| 26 | The girl , a virgin at the time , became pregnant as a result , the jury heard . |
| 27 | Two pregnant : Two schoolgirls became pregnant after a relationship with a 20-year-old man , Whitby magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 28 | Spring-born suckled beef calves grazed with their dams until housed or sold do not usually develop clinical signs , although coughing due to a mild infection is common . |
| 29 | Also , a large meal , particularly with coffee or tea , might keep you awake whilst it is being digested ( though some people find that it is easy to fall asleep after a meal ) . |
| 30 | We loll around sweating profusely , sluglike , to fall asleep in a hot embrace . |