Example sentences of "a block " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single specimens , even if very brightly coloured , tend to disappear in the shadows , whereas they will be more conspicuous planted in a block especially if supported by masses of healthy green foliage : ferns for a splash of colour . |
| 2 | Driving home , dropping Lucy a block from her life , her house , her son . |
| 3 | The designs are carefully drawn out ( below ) before David can attempt any of the oversized carving on a block of lime ( below right ) |
| 4 | In this case the council argued that the property was set within a block in which all but one of the tenants were over pensionable age . |
| 5 | A special escape sequence defines a rectangular area of the page and then introduces a block of pixel data , very similar in principle to a bit image file . |
| 6 | Thus each extra code describes a block of several symbols , and with suitable data this can lead to considerable compression . |
| 7 | In June this year AMP 's shareholding jumped to 18 per cent when it acquired a block of over 23 million shares , representing 13 per cent of Pearl 's equity , from FAI Insurances , a leading Australian insurance and investment group . |
| 8 | In the same week in which President Bush appeared on national television brandishing $3,200 worth of cocaine ( coercively obtained from a dealer who was dragged a block or two nearer the White House ) to raise the air-time mileage he earns on drugs , it did not take long for outrage to be expressed . |
| 9 | An investigation is under way into an gas explosion at a block of flats in Dagenham , east London , in which a man died . |
| 10 | Millions of trade unionists could not simply be represented by the casting of a block vote once a year . |
| 11 | Legal Protection also provides cover for a flat owner in a block of more than four flats to pursue a claim against a freeholder . |
| 12 | A block of four 1918 24-cent stamps featuring an early aeroplane , from a famous sheet of 100 on which the aeroplane was printed upside down , sold for $1.1m ( £705,128 ) , against an estimate of $600,000-$800,000 , to an American broadcasting executive . |
| 13 | It turned out to be a story about the residents of a block of flats being used as breeders by aliens , who implant their offspring into the unsuspecting humans . |
| 14 | My father 's nightly trips across the river were usually to the Colbert in Sheffield [ built around the time of Pearl Harbour , half a block from the Ritz , today a parking lot ] and the Tuscumbian [ built in 1950 , a block from the Strand , today part of a bank ] . |
| 15 | My father 's nightly trips across the river were usually to the Colbert in Sheffield [ built around the time of Pearl Harbour , half a block from the Ritz , today a parking lot ] and the Tuscumbian [ built in 1950 , a block from the Strand , today part of a bank ] . |
| 16 | Put a block of florist 's foam in a jug half-filled with water . |
| 17 | Cut a block into eight rectangular blocks , about 7–8cm in length . |
| 18 | Add a block of pre-soaked Oasis and insert eucalyptus branches to make a dome shape , with some extending horizontally outwards . |
| 19 | Using wire netting and lengths of wire attach a block of wet Oasis securely to the top of the ‘ trunk ’ |
| 20 | Probably the most common type of conversion project at the present time is the adaptation of a mill or warehouse into a block of dwellings . |
| 21 | In Glagow , the former Wylie and Lochhead Cabinet Works on Kent Road has been converted into a block of 196 flats for sale and its sumptuous Grade A listed stone-clad main elevation has been carefully restored . |
| 22 | He then opened discussions with Universal , a company in which he had taken a 25 per cent stake back in 1935 , whereby Rank 's smaller films would be packaged with the pictures of an independent US production company , and sold in a block to exhibitors . |
| 23 | THE POLGARS live on the eighth floor of a block of flats on Semmelweis Street , a workers ' area in Budapest . |
| 24 | Much more of that and we 'd have been making a block transfer to the Betty Ford clinic . |
| 25 | Last night Brian Walsh , the Yorkshire chairman , did his best to put a block on the whole sorry business , but not before enterprising Guardian hacks were able to obtain a leaked copy of a classic example of the high-class cut and thrust of the debate . |
| 26 | * Try to buy Cheddar on the rind — it makes a tremendous difference to the flavour ( like cooking meat on the bone ) , and instantly shows that the cheese has been cut from a truckle and not from a block . |
| 27 | A MEETING of Israel 's war cabinet on January 23rd , the day after an Iraqi Scud missile hit a block of flats in Ramat Gan killing three people , ended in a rare and thunderous silence . |
| 28 | He is trying to establish and retain a block of capital available for the members of his family for as long as he can do so . |
| 29 | I received a few not so long ago complaining about this place , saying that it does not speak of God ; that it is a monument to a man-made religion ; that it ought to be pulled down and a block of flats built here instead , and the money spent on missionary work abroad . |
| 30 | There seemed to be a block in her chest so that she could not breathe properly . |