Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three North Koreans were killed and two South Korean soldiers wounded after a heavily armed North Korean patrol was said to have infiltrated the DMZ and encountered a South Korean unit . |
| 2 | Late one afternoon , after a particularly demanding day , she sat down at her desk and burst into tears . |
| 3 | Occasionally , after a particularly trying day , we would go out for a drink together — but no more Apricot Sunsets , thank you very much . |
| 4 | A gynaecologist who worked in the Maternity " Hospital in San Salvador saw at least five women every day who were suffering from serious complications after a badly performed abortion . |
| 5 | Instead , Nijinsky came to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after a uniquely testing season — unique because it included the first Triple Crown since 1935 . |
| 6 | So Tommy the waiter carefully hung up his yellow waistcoat with its white lining and ordered some wine from room service and in a while after a long easing shower slept for eight solid hours and did n't dream about Filmer . |
| 7 | After a long running row with the locals , the diocese has decided enough is enough and plan legal action . |
| 8 | Questions set by the computer , which then supplies the answer for checking purposes after a randomly set time delay , seem to have a powerful motivating effect and are but one example of the effectiveness of the computer 's simulating the random elements which the pupil experiences in everyday life and work . |
| 9 | But the Dallas county commission , which owns the building , denied his request after a highly charged debate in which the director was labelled a provocateur . |
| 10 | He sprinted through the defence from halfway after a quickly taken penalty , and Aldred 's conversion put Collegians 10-9 ahead . |
| 11 | Seb was working with Christian on top of a steadily rising haystack , the last of many . |
| 12 | Support for a fixed Channel link soon emerged as a prime candidate for assistance although the British and French governments remained committed to the idea of a privately financed tunnel . |
| 13 | The French are as committed as the British to the concept of a privately financed Channel Tunnel but are also concerned to maximise its benefits for the surrounding region , and the economy as a whole , by the judicious use of public investment . |
| 14 | Nkrumah also claimed to be against the existence of a privately owned press . |
| 15 | The opening paragraph of The Autocar 's November 1965 test of a privately owned car ( to much the same spec as our example ) read : ‘ Few readers indeed will get this far before turning to the data page which follows , for the name of AC Cobra is synonymous with performance . |
| 16 | The study was based on structured interviews with some 370 former employees of a privately owned steel company in Sheffield who were made redundant in and shortly after the summer of 1979 . |
| 17 | Stones dropped from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship fell to the deck at the foot of the mast and not some distance from the mast , as Aristotle 's theory predicted . |
| 18 | Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment . |
| 19 | Moreover , all the circuit properties of a line are distributed along its length , uniformly so in the ideal situation of a uniformly constructed line . |
| 20 | GREEN-eyed rivals tried to oust the reigning champ of a best kept garden contest — with a scorched earth policy . |
| 21 | Even in a ‘ sweep ’ movie [ see 5 ] like The Last Emperor , O'Toole 's Law deprived him of a Best Supporting nomination . |
| 22 | Their vision was of a functionally differentiated society in which ‘ the individual is now created by the social organism of which he forms a part ’ and in which a state , founded on democracy tempered by respect for the expert , is required to co-ordinate the social order . |
| 23 | We have shown that TCR -β rearrangement or , more likely , expression of a functionally rearranged TCR -β gene , is not only necessary but also sufficient for driving most of the immature IL-2R-positive DN thymocytes to the DP stage and for expanding the pool of thymocytes . |
| 24 | It may be the more difficult case of a temporarily reduced capacity at the time when his decision was made . |
| 25 | In fact , it 's part of a shrewdly calculated subtext . |
| 26 | In fact the two-hour film due to be shown on ITV on Saturday April 18 is an extraordinary study of a little known period of T.E . |
| 27 | They consist of a clearly stated objective , which is feasible and practical , stated in terms of quantity when applicable and achievable in a definite time period . |
| 28 | A planned policy in relation to retirements from the firm is also more likely to strengthen the loyalties of junior partners by giving them sight of a clearly defined career progression within the firm . |
| 29 | This encouraged the growth of a clearly defined body of hereditary peers , for it eliminated the risks that an earldom would pass into other hands by marriage , that the lands would become separate from the title , or that they would be divided up amongst coheiresses . |
| 30 | A problem in studying acute renal failure is the lack of a clearly agreed definition . |