Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LTTE claimed to have shot down a Marchetti combat aircraft with a SAM 7 missile . |
| 2 | The particles of the magnetosheath plasma precipitate down a funnel-shaped region ( cusp ) of open field lines resulting from reconnection of the geomagnetic field with the interplanetary magnetic field . |
| 3 | John Dunford , Philip King and John Kennedy had had this idea to record me ‘ live ’ in a pub , so they brought down a mobile unit to Winkles Hotel in Kinvara , and we were all there for three or four days . |
| 4 | Their way led down a shallow incline between a row of abandoned warehouses , gaunt against the night sky . |
| 5 | There may have been a wheel on this site since the 18th Century when the Macclesfield Company put down a shallow shaft — Bonsor West Shaft — at the north-westerly extremity of the old 17th Century open works . |
| 6 | In a far-reaching judgment , the Court of Appeals laid down a new test for the determination of the question of non-literal copyright infringement , that is , whether there has been an infringement of copyright in non-literal elements such as program structure . |
| 7 | Look at the decision of the Exchequer Chamber how we may , it laid down a new principle . |
| 8 | If it 's a concrete floor you could either put down a new wood floor or tile it with some sort of composition tile or sheeting like vinyl or linoleum which is showing quite a revival . |
| 9 | Investment bankers say that grey markets allow short-selling that drives down a new issue 's price . |
| 10 | By the early 1970s the increasing demand for higher education forced the government to lay down a new structure for higher education , embodied in the Hochschulrahrnengesetz . |
| 11 | Norwich were trailing Grant , who has turned down a new contract , last season and have maintained their interest . |
| 12 | ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side . |
| 13 | McCreery left last month after he turned down a new contract . |
| 14 | True , in the judgment itself it might appear that the court was making a pontifical statement of existing principle rather than laying down a new rule , for they regarded their own proposition as having been anticipated by Holt . |
| 15 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Alec Reid firmed down a new pipeful of tobacco , ‘ I might ha ’ made a name for meself had I remained in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | It was the legacy of the previous form of uneven development based in the sectoral spatial division of labour ( high levels of unemployment from previously dominant sectors which had overwhelmingly employed men ) which provided the conditions ( regional policy grants , a ‘ green ’ , female labour force anxious for paid employment ) which attracted in this new form of economic activity and laid down a new form of uneven development . |
| 17 | The luthier , Tony Rockett attempted to track down a new steel rod for my bass , only to discover that nobody in this country supplies Warwick spares . |
| 18 | And I must also add that I was a trifle put out , and surprised , because it seemed to me that he was turning down a good opportunity . |
| 19 | Moran said : ‘ Director Jack Walker 's money has enabled the manager to put down a good foundation and if we can get Roy coming in alongside the likes of Alan Shearer , the club will really be going places . ’ |
| 20 | You know the old saying about never look a gift horse in the mouth , well do n't turn down a good tip . |
| 21 | It is actually a fairly simple matter , well within the capability of Neolithic and Bronze Age people , to set down a straight line across hilly country using three surveying poles . |
| 22 | The police were quickly on the scene and had Trevor walking up and down a straight line . |
| 23 | His plane seemed to swoop down a straight slope until an abrupt crackle signalled the moment to pull out . |
| 24 | Daniel struggled but was no match for the two louts who , having kicked and beaten him , pushed him down a grassy bank towards the canal . |
| 25 | John and the rest of the room seemed to be miles away — even my own voice , when I produced it finally , sounded as if it were coming down a long-distance telephone . |
| 26 | Calcutt , the son of a Home Counties chemist who won a Cambridge scholarship after a minor public school scholarship and then held down a successful practice at the Bar , has a common Great and Good pedigree . |
| 27 | The path marked by a ball rolling down a corrugated graph paper would reveal a gap when the paper is later flattened . |
| 28 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 29 | They were cruel , dark , pupiless eyes , like looking down a bottomless pit . |
| 30 | The plot was two corpses gone before we caught sight of ourselves , stripped naked in the middle of nowhere and pouring ourselves down a bottomless well . |