Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kell , his back exposed to many knives , was bizarrely blamed by Churchill for the ‘ skill and daring ’ of the submarine that destroyed the Royal Oak , and after a couple more botched jobs was summarily dismissed . |
| 2 | As I said , Goreng had to shoot some after a desertion so large that it could not possibly be ascribed to the category of MIAS . |
| 3 | TV commentators often assert confidently that a try has been awarded after a tackle just short of the line because the player 's ‘ momentum ’ took him over . |
| 4 | I looked up her address on our hospital street map in the reception room — Rockingham Gardens , just behind the Elephant and Castle ; and it was a hell of a drive across London , on streets glistening after a day when heavy rain had hardly stopped . |
| 5 | After a while when most of the cards are removed you can say ‘ Do you prefer red or black cards . |
| 6 | After a claim under one of the benefits ( a ) to ( c ) has been admitted and become payable , no further liability shall attach to the Insurer . |
| 7 | Currency reform was ‘ essential ’ , said a resolution adopted after a protest here last week of trade unionists from all over the Russian Federated Republic . |
| 8 | There were the inevitable late-night nutters ringing in after a beer too many , but many of the questions revolved around the evolution of humans . |
| 9 | If the MD asks you What if interest rates drop to 6% , you can use the scenario manager to show how the end result would differ from the figures you have calculated — and throw in a few other interest rates as well , just to impress him/her and make that rise you were after a touch more attainable . |
| 10 | A disciplinary panel imposed the ban on all the club 's senior players after a hearing earlier this week was told that during the Division IV match , two Cumbernauld players had been sent off . |
| 11 | A disciplinary panel imposed the ban on all the club 's senior players after a hearing earlier this week was told that during the Division IV match , two Cumbernauld players had been sent off . |
| 12 | If therefore the waters of the sea showed no signs of depletion of fish , an increased supply could be produced at a lower price after a time sufficiently long to enable the normal action of economic causes to work itself out . [ … ] |
| 13 | Such a discussion is more likely to occur after a meeting when some of the players are having a post mortem , and of course , when the ‘ other side ’ is not present . |
| 14 | If 10%–15% of the total activity is carried out in private practice and a similar proportion is carried out by trainees without the direct supervision of a consultant then one consultant is required for approximately 30000 population . |
| 15 | We 're keen to trace him because he might be able to tell us something like a piece of a jigsaw really that may help to put the case together |
| 16 | The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried , unsuccessfully , to build model aeroplanes . |
| 17 | He looked for signs of a faith more supernatural , less conventional , more revolutionary . |
| 18 | The extent to which local advisers can undertake an objective evaluation of a school already familiar to them is one consideration . |
| 19 | The first quickly takes advantage of a window carelessly left open or a house that 's in darkness . |
| 20 | The National Endowment for the Humanities , a federal body that funds scholarship , has made the celebration of a fifth-century BC Greek democracy the centrepiece of a broad funding campaign . |
| 21 | The impression one gets here is that of a realization almost simultaneous with the utterance of the sentence — ( 220 ) evokes the creation of light , ( 221 ) the beginning of the celebrations . |
| 22 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 23 | To place a finger into the vagina of a girl under 16 years is an indecent assault as there can be no consent to indecent assault under 16 years ( R v McCormack [ 1969 ] 2 QB 442 ) . |
| 24 | Tallis felt slightly sick as a glistening space appeared in Holly-jack 's torso , with the gnarled shaft of a backbone clearly visible at the back ; ribs like curves of polished mahogany gleamed . |
| 25 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 26 | The contemporaneous occurrence of a dinosaur as primitive as Eoraptor with the ornithischian Pisanosaurus and more advanced theropod Herrerasaurus supports the hypothesis that dinosaurs diverged rapidly at small body size from a common ancestor during the early Carnian ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 27 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 28 | At the end of a caution period ( ie , a period of brief interruption in the race ) , Mr Mansell was a fraction of a second too slow to respond to the green flag restart . |
| 29 | In Act II , SC.6 , of the same opera Cavalli introduced the classic example of a type not new even in his own work and employed in so many later operas : the extended lamento over a ground bass , usually chromatic . |
| 30 | They gave the ruler of Spain , more often referred to as the Holy Roman Emperor , Charles V , possessions of a type previously unknown . |