Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes of being trapped behind a 20-feet thick wall of coal , steel and rubble completely filling the 12-feet high and 16-feet wide tunnel , they were in contact with colleagues on the opposite side using the undamaged Tannoy system which runs along the wall of the roadway . |
| 2 | It can be added to a Windows 3 or OS/2 personal computer enabling it to handle a range of multimedia elements , including high resolution colour graphics , sound and animation . |
| 3 | He is an amateur photographer , living in a bare-knuckles gold-mining boom town called Matupa on the southern rim of the Amazon basin . |
| 4 | defendant acquiescing in a plaintiffs inexcusable , inordinate and prejudicial delay in prosecuting an action was thereby debarred from having it dismissed for want of prosecution . |
| 5 | They came from a police loud hailer . |
| 6 | Clints have been quarried for rockeries at a markedly increasing rate in the last 20 years , according to a Dales National Park report . |
| 7 | I did n't think like a malai regular . |
| 8 | As the pink mists began to clear , my world turned into an out-of-focus elongated distortion , seen through yellow cellophane . |
| 9 | It is housed in a 36″ bare aquarium with Discus and Corydoras caudimaculatus and concolor . |
| 10 | There was a ripe collection of April Fool items flying around the industry this year , with BICC Plc 's BICC Information Systems & Services promoting its underware , the first two items being BISS-SLIP for Synchronised Linked Internet Protocol and BISS-NICS Network Integrity Circuit Service , and Chase Research Inc of Nashville , Tennessee threatening to knock MS-DOS , Unix and NT off their perches with a resurrected CPM/93 version of the late lamented CP/M operating system — and comes on 300 8″ floppies , bundled with an 8″ floppy drive for $100 ; but the prize has to go for Hewlett-Packard Ltd , which yesterday announced new security features for its Vectra personal computers — User Fingerprint Recognition on all models , and both Photographic Recognition — a tiny camera in the middle of the screen that recognises you even when you come back with a tan , and Odour Recognition — designated users must not change their perfume or after shave — on 80486 models ; not recognised ? |
| 11 | From this intimacy flowed the missionary movement of the church which began in an Acts 13 worship meeting . |
| 12 | THE smallest crowd of the season at McDiarmid Park last night saw St Johnstone recover from a backs-to-the-wall first half to take two vital points from Falkirk . |
| 13 | The tank is lit by a 48″ Actinic , 48″ Northlight and a 42″ Triton . |
| 14 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 15 | Another Mitchell got his nickname for always having his head stuck in a boys annual of the twenties — he became known as " Pill Box Annual " but this eventually was shortened to Annal Mitchell , by which he is still known . |
| 16 | My tyres rumbled across a cattle grating ; I watched for a marker board of the Screw Worm Quarantine Line . |
| 17 | There were moments when it felt like a portcullis downward-slammed between herself and the human community . |
| 18 | Only 18 cases were reported last year , yet the disease is caused by a bacteria present on one in three people . |
| 19 | The terminals start with a 14″ 1024 by 768 screen with 4Mb of memory and include a $2,900 17″ 1,152 by 900 monitor with 4Mb and a high-end 20″ 1,280 by 1,024 screen with 4Mb displaying two pages of text side-by-side . |
| 20 | ‘ I am not thinking of a police scene-of-crime picture . |
| 21 | In a North London timber yard , the body of the armed robber was still being examined by a police forensic team late this afternoon . |
| 22 | Even a toy bear due to be raffled for a Pounds 380,000 appeal to send Stuart to America for a liver-bowel swap was ruined . |
| 23 | A search has been launched after a couples mysterious disappearance . |
| 24 | It also comes with a PC-NFS 5.0 programmers toolkit . |