Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Braintree have the psychological edge today , having knocked Margate from the top of the table early in the season with a 5–1 win after a seaside special on the Kent coast . |
| 2 | The defence , calling and cross-examining a number of US Drug Enforcement Agency officials , presented its case between Feb. 2 and March 10 , 1992 , after a delay due to heart bypass surgery on Judge William Hoeveler . |
| 3 | For example , in Calliphora flight starts after a jump due to the contraction of muscles running from the tergum to the trochanter of the mid leg . |
| 4 | The " Torogoces " , a music group named after a bird renowned for the beauty of its song , perform in the Morazan controlled zone . |
| 5 | Mrs Helmsley was found guilty after a trial replete with tales of how she bawled out employees and charged $12 department store brassieres to her hotel . |
| 6 | After a goal each from Tony Marchant , for Northern , and Tony Thorniley , loose forward David Heron and skipper David Hobbs combined to put Great Britain second rower Fairbank over for his fourth try of the season in the 17th minute . |
| 7 | After a while one of the Men began climbing the tree . |
| 8 | After a while all of the others , except Wellington , followed . |
| 9 | Montgomerie was upset after a second-round 77 in Agadir which left him 14 shots behind then leader , Jamie Spence , and criticised the set-up of the tournament . |
| 10 | She was like a young dog , the kind her mother scorned , and she could only leap and lick after a blow such as he had fetched her . |
| 11 | Montgomerie finished in a share of 20th place after a closing 70 for 293 . |
| 12 | If you 're after a 6ft blond for a holiday romance the joint resorts of Kuta and Legian in the south are the places to go . |
| 13 | There were kids scrambling , poor men and women , all after a string full of herrings to take home . |
| 14 | After a time teaching in a Scottish school , Fettes , the degree got him a fellowship in mathematics at his own college of Magdalene ; where he remained the rest of his long life — teaching mathematics , holding various college offices , going every week to Emmanuel Congregational chapel , and becoming after a time one of its deacons or church officers . |
| 15 | Some firms have a large supply of good water that meets their process needs , usually after a pre-treatment such as sedimentation in a mill lodge , with some additional treatment for the boiler water . |
| 16 | Here there may have been a connection between the temporary weakening of ducal control over minting , in the troubles following Richard II 's death , and the production of a currency useful for traders . |
| 17 | During the course of the action , they inflicted heavy casualties on their attackers and revealed themselves to be fierce and resourceful fighters — not amateurs , but professionals of a skill comparable to that of their Roman adversaries . |
| 18 | This means that even as regards third parties who neither have nor need the protection of Code C , and who have never had such protection in the past , the police officer can not demand the production of a document relevant to the suspected offence . |
| 19 | A drugs squad officer has just paid a visit to the owner of a field full of cannabis — but he wo n't be making any arrests . |
| 20 | Even though the epidermis appears to be stretched taut over the surface of a structure such as a growing limb bud , its response to wounding is to close over the lesion , rather than to gape more widely . |
| 21 | As points of reference for the total curriculum of a school each of these falls within the usual definition of broad aims . |
| 22 | The gestation period of a horse is about 11 months , that of a donkey 12 to 13 months , and that of the hybrid somewhere between 11 and 13 months . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the influential head priest of the Jama Masjid in New Delhi , Imam Abdullah Bukhari , yesterday charged Mr Gandhi with being in league with Hindu militants who laid the foundation stone of a temple next to a mosque in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday . |
| 24 | The use of a facility such as ‘ Office Power ’ would thus reduce the pressure on staff dealing with more complicated cases where a much more detailed and individual response is required . |
| 25 | The use of a facility such as ‘ Office Power ’ and its electronic mail capabilities would ensure that all aspects of a case could be considered timeously without fear of hard copy correspondence being lost between different sections inadvertently or otherwise not actioned . |
| 26 | In the Raman , the intensity of a peak due to a given species is directly related to its concentration . |
| 27 | There are in the Musée two memorable and characteristic El Greco portraits , of a duke all in black and a cardinal ; some excellent Ingres , including a full-length portrait of the depressing King Charles X , looking depressing , and an ample-backed Baigneuse or Woman Bathing ; a Goya self portrait , among other pictures by him , making him look mild and harmless ; some British pictures , by Constable , Lawrence , Reynolds and Raeburn ; a Géricault and an agitated Delacroix showing Job tormented by Demons ; and some fine drawings , of which Bonn at had a most notable collection , too large to be displayed in toto , by artists from the early Italians onwards . |
| 28 | Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance . |
| 29 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 30 | THE Football League 's imposition of a £50,000 fine on Third Division Barnet appears a harsh penalty for breaches of the statutory smallprint . |