Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 2 | Our education programme changes attitudes slowly in an environment where selfish values grow even faster . |
| 3 | A dedication to Cautes indicates the presence somewhere of a Mithraeum . |
| 4 | He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth . |
| 5 | And at seven thirty , Karen found herself sipping sherry in a borrowed frock and shaking fingers politely with a lawyer and his wife , whom she disliked quite intensely after fifty seconds . |
| 6 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 7 | It 's no good doing the most lovely building right down a drive where no-one can see it , so it 's part of the environment for all of us . |
| 8 | Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper 's . |
| 9 | At the same time he began to see Frances secretly at an address in South Kensington in central London . |
| 10 | And meant only for summer and early autumn ; no heating apparatus except the open fires , and a kitchen rather on a par for mod cons with my cottage at Otters ' Bay . |
| 11 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
| 12 | Better still , the whole board should be protected within a framework rather like a picture frame with its face covered with clear polycarbonate sheet . |
| 13 | She dipped her fingers delicately into a dish and , to my astonishment , popped a morsel of food into my mouth instead of into her own . |
| 14 | This freedom together with a diet of high cereal and whole wheat , and the JS combination of traditional methods of maturation with modern chilling and packaging methods , produce these full flavoured , succulent and tender chickens . |
| 15 | However , where there is a breach of any term which is not a condition , that breach could be either repudiatory ( i.e. equivalent in effect to a breach of condition ) or a mere breach of warranty ( i.e. giving rise only to a claim to damages ) . |
| 16 | Advances of capital and determinations of interest during the life of the beneficiary which have taken place before 26/3/74 can give rise only to a claim for duty or tax in connection with the beneficiary 's death ( a ) If the death takes place before 13/11/74 any claim for estate duty must be made under Section 2(1) ( b ) ( i ) or ( ii ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , and all the present estate duty rules apply . |
| 17 | A worthwhile person is always competent : he never makes mistakes , slips of the tongue , errors of judgement or loses his thread halfway through a lesson or a meeting . |
| 18 | The dissidents who resigned from his ‘ cabinet ’ look ominously like a vanguard of the fundamentalist persuasion which has been in some abeyance since the defeat of Jim Sillars . |
| 19 | The other day I bought the enchanting ASV CD of clarinet Concertos by played by Emma Johnson and read the notes only as an afterthought this morning , having already listened to the disc several times . |
| 20 | Our table lists the factor that influences most choices — the price per gallon — but this should not be taken as a measure of value for money merely as an indicator of price . |
| 21 | Provided that at a meeting of a licensing board the chairman shall not have a second or casting vote on an application for the grant or provisional grant of a new licence , and such an application shall be granted by the board only by a majority of the members thereof present and voting . |
| 22 | ( A table of retail indices together with a table showing the value of the £ at various dates will be found in Appendix E. ) |
| 23 | The initiating member should provide an advance copy of the Investment Overview text to all Network members ( mailings to other than the full Network are discouraged ) , together with a list of foreign prospective purchasers already identified by the initiating member for each Network members jurisdiction ( eg the Swiss member of the Network will receive the Investment Overview text together with a list of Swiss prospective purchasers , if any , identified by the initiating member ) . |
| 24 | for short ) gives rise naturally to a partition . |
| 25 | Most of the data came from observing 55 case conferences , interviews with the social workers in 25 of the cases together with an analysis of case records . |
| 26 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 27 | ‘ Ca n't you look a bit less like a nun ? ’ he demanded with masculine vagueness . |
| 28 | Experience and knowledge of the business world would be an advantage together with an appreciation of strategic and local planning considerations . |
| 29 | If injury or sickness is sustained and medical attention is received , you should if possible , pay and obtain receipted accounts together with a certificate showing the nature of the injury or sickness . |
| 30 | He rubbed the base of the cartridge gently with a piece of tissue . |