Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counter attacking , the defence brought in a consultant neurologist who testified , on the basis of medical records and EEG tests , to the likelihood of brain damage in Mr X in childhood , and a second clinical psychologist , who had made a special study of faking and said that Mr X could n't fake an IQ test to save his life , or words to that effect . |
| 2 | The borough brought in a group of consultants to produce topic papers on twelve of the major areas affected by abolition . |
| 3 | The car parked about a hundred yards from the loch and two men , clad in town clothes , got out and ambled over : ‘ Any luck ? ’ they inquired . |
| 4 | The superintendent folded up a chapati . |
| 5 | Mrs Browning began to laugh but the laugh brought on a coughing fit and , when Wilson rushed to her aid and raised her higher on the pillow , her face took on an ugly blue tinge , which she had never seen before . |
| 6 | In the 1989 Budget , the Chancellor brought in a new ceiling limit of £90,000 , based on earnings of £60,000 to be revalued every year in line with price increases . |
| 7 | The coroner brought in a verdict of wilful murder . |
| 8 | The carapace required almost a year to become fully symbiotic with the body — and its owner required purification , distillation in the alembic of combat before his augmented natural body could be judged to be fully transmuted in spirit as well as in flesh and bone , and thus worthy of donning complete Marine armour … |
| 9 | The Group brought in a new President at its Miami headquarter to coincide with a massive publicity launch . |
| 10 | Subscribers to the service required only a cable line , an amplifier , a pair of speakers and a computer pad , on which to tap out the number of their choice . |
| 11 | And that was the reason that the government brought in a new initiative after the Warner Report , and there 's a specific training grant that you now get to ensure that your training staff , your , your residential staff get trained . |
| 12 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 13 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 14 | Independent test laboratory LANQuest has found that support for a new protocol can be added to a 100-node Boundary Router network in under 10% the time taken on a network routed by standard means , says 3Com . |
| 15 | " Take as much lean of boiled ham as you please , and half the quantity of fat , cut it as thin as possible , beat it very fine in a mortar , with a little oiled butter , beaten mace , pepper and salt , pot part of it into a china pot , then beat the white part of a fowl with a very little seasoning ; it is to qualify the ham , put a lay of chicken , then one of ham , then chicken at the top , press it hard down , and when it is cold , pour clarified butter over it ; when you send it to the table cut out a thin slice in the form of half a diamond , and lay it round the edge of your pot . " |
| 16 | The ruling was said to be partly based on a case brought in a British court by a Maze prisoner who had alleged maltreatment by prison officers . |
| 17 | Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week . |
| 18 | On the roof of the next barge is a group huddled round a radio , cheering a football match in Kinshasa , five hundred miles downstream . |
| 19 | Once a week set aside a little time to give your body a conditioning and moisturising treatment . |
| 20 | It was good because every week a Brownie brought in a pet . |
| 21 | He was a man brought up a bus ride away from Taibach , a word-clotted surreal dark comedy Welshman whom Burton adored . |
| 22 | ‘ I think that the young painters are more intelligent than the others , the old ones can see in me only a disastrous rival ’ , he said to his son in a letter written only a few days before his death . |
| 23 | Nor is Thorpeness trailing in the scenic stakes ; the short 7th with a tee shot over a lake complete with ducks , is utterly distracting . |
| 24 | Dexter handed across an article dated about a year before from one of the broadsheet newspapers . |
| 25 | At seven-thirty an officer brought in a tray with a bowl of semolina mixed with stewed dry fruit . |