Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , she was deaf as a po ! |
| 2 | Left three children there and took the took eleven year old for a wa , dog for a walk , and nobody knew she 'd left them there , cos she did n't come back until Sunday afternoon at three o'clock ! |
| 3 | ULLAPOOL MUSEUM seeks information and photographs on the fate of , or whereabouts of , Unteroffizier Heinz Josaf who baled-out of a Ju88 in December 1944 over Loch Ullapool , and was last heard of as a PoW . |
| 4 | I 'm not interested in a Jag Christopher ! |
| 5 | The strength of anti-DLP feeling was manifest at a 200,000-strong opposition rally in Seoul on July 21 . |
| 6 | What I do think is very dangerous for a p for a candidate in any party is to flirt with the big idea of any of your opponents . |
| 7 | He pulled the sides of the case apart and peered at the tobacco projectiles it contained , each one as potently dangerous as a Sam-7 . |
| 8 | masculinity or , or the lost of a er female companion or something . |
| 9 | And Murphy 's Law invariably applies : if you do n't want anybody to knock on your door — because you 're putting the kids to bed/washing your hair/making love/cooking something impossible like a souffl é/late; for just about anything/working to a deadline/just secretly reclining on the sofa with a packet of your favourite chocolate biscuits , watching Coronation Street — somebody always will . |
| 10 | These properties are characteristic of a Na + /H + exchange mechanism . |
| 11 | These properties are characteristic of a Na + -HCO 3 - co-transport system . |
| 12 | The formulae ( ‘ it seemed good ’ , ‘ straight away ’ ) are aped from ‘ city ’ terminology ( and note the deme agora , something normally characteristic of a polis , cp. p. 66 ) — or should we say that the city aped the demes ? |
| 13 | For example , when sitting relaxed in a T21b , I have been nearly blacked out by a student during a tight loop . |
| 14 | These elite forces are the best equipped and trained and the most disciplined in a 150,000-strong army famous for its incompetence . |
| 15 | If you are soloing over a straight minor seventh you would not want to resolve a melodic line onto the minor sixth interval , although this would be okay on a m7£5 . |
| 16 | We need to ensure that these people get some form of equal right , equal right with a s simple contract . |
| 17 | This is a major step forward from the Renault 25 , a car that was good with a V6 but coarse with the smaller four-cylinder engine . |
| 18 | The troops , officially involved in a US$2,500,000 civic action programme to repair a local school and to install a sewage system and water treatment plants , were accused of being an advance guard of a stepped-up US policy to eradicate the growing of coca , the raw material of cocaine , in the region ; in the absence of a viable market substitute , thousands of local peasant families depended on the crop for a livelihood . |
| 19 | They do n't realize it 's an investment in our economy , in individuals and developing erm our ability to create wealth , so twelve billion cost in their mind , I could tell you from someone who 's directly involved in a s er obtained training for my er staff members at work . |
| 20 | By the end of the afternoon , after a few more pints , he gets involved in a Q&A challenge — he says he 'll answer any question , so long as I keep them coming . |
| 21 | In Grampian small companies accounted for 28.5% of all exports , while large companies were responsible for a 71.5% share . |
| 22 | But Dubcek was not as popular at home where some still blamed him for not standing up to the Warsaw Pact in 1968 and therefore being responsible for a 23year military occupation by Soviet forces . |
| 23 | P : ‘ I wandered lonely as a cloud/That floats on high o'er hill and dale ’ |
| 24 | It is therefore plausible that this pulsar should be detectable as a γ -ray source ; if its γ -ray luminosity is the same fraction of its total energy-loss rate as for the Vela pulsar , then it should be about a factor of 20 less bright than Vela . |
| 25 | Jeu de Cartes , in particular , is nothing short of a tour de force or orchestral wizardry , superb engineering , and interpretative control . |
| 26 | just short of a gallo yeah you need a bowl . |
| 27 | Early signs of recovery from recession in the United States were first evident in a 12.4% increase in sales of light-duty trucks and vans , to which autocatalysts are also fitted . |
| 28 | Shortly after Dick took off in his P-40 , Bill Dodds and I joined him airborne in a T-6 . |
| 29 | Any evidence that , for example , a printer has specially increased his profit margin to cover a risk factor , would be fatal to a s2(5) claim . |
| 30 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |