Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Here fish live that have developed a method of finding their way about that no other creature so far has emulated . |
2 | cub like that with a stick , I know a job about that a blind man coming , a blind man was walking down the pavement with a stick , so on the side of the pavement there 's this dog turd |
3 | Wan na say a bit more about that a little later on . |
4 | Being technically aware of your body is very important and the more drama school does about that the better . |
5 | Fell wants to simulate loss-of-coolant accident and then use about two-thirds the usual emergency cooling water to mimic what could occur at Sizewell . |
6 | The freeholder refused to put in writing any guarantee , such as that no comprehensive redevelopment of the site was planned . |
7 | Between 1909–55 the season-long championship was known as the AAA National Championship . |
8 | In London a survey has recently been carried out of Holborn and Westminster area firms and the High Court taxing officers have accepted for 1992/3 the broad average direct cost for carrying out litigation in an area will be £88 per hour . |
9 | Unfortunately for Labour the Korean War by 1951 was having an adverse effect on the British economy and precipitated another balance of payments of crisis just after it seemed that Britain could dispense with Marshall Aid . |
10 | For Labour the traditional family has always been a moral absolute and not at all a changing social relationship , statistics on single-parent families notwithstanding — not to mention ‘ pretended families ’ . |
11 | The Women 's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote . |
12 | For that a settled ethical character is as necessary as is intelligence itself . |
13 | I suppose the trouble is yeah if you do push , if you do go for that the other side cos you just sort of push them into the |
14 | In fact it was the Society 's policy now that we wo n't put animals to sleep unless there is an extreme er cause for that the sick , diseased . |
15 | By now we had crossed through half a dozen vegetation zones — the botanical equivalent of a journey from Canada to New Mexico . |
16 | Dispensing with the paths that snaked through half a dozen different garden realms , she brushed through the shrubbery , feeling a little wild in the wake of her primitive gesture . |
17 | So if you 're looking for something , bit of a pain having to wade through half a dozen pages , if you can go to the index and then jump directly to the relevant page , and then save you a bit of time . |
18 | ‘ But before my brain got into gear after finding you 'd cleared the wardrobe in the lobby of your belongings and I realised you 'd gone , I went through half a dozen possibilities before I rang Reception . ’ |
19 | For freshwater the key criterion is pH . |
20 | As a child , I thought about this a good deal and my father would often invite me to feel the holes in his head — taking my fingers in his hand and guiding them to the slight depressions under his vaselined hair . |
21 | I decided I must face the truth about this the other night when I swerved fiercely on country road to avoid a scuba diver riding a moped . |
22 | Y y you 'll see at the bottom of the agenda that er John and I talked about this the other night , er and there are |
23 | ‘ Someone called about this the other day . |
24 | He would later swear that he had cautioned me about this the previous night . |
25 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
26 | North would charter a Caribbean cruise ship , the Sea Goddess , for half a million dollars ; the contra leaders would come on board , declare their independence from the regime in Managua , adopt a constitution and seek recognition from Washington ; the ship would then sail up the east coast , turn up the Delaware river and dock in Philadelphia , and cameras would record it all . |
27 | In the mid-Eighties , when Bacons were selling for half a million dollars , he did it again by selling a Bacon Pope belonging to Dufferin for over $1 million . |
28 | What a marvellous chance for half a million visitors to see what changes there have or have n't been . |
29 | These would undertake so many operations for half a million pounds . |
30 | We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over . |