Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Instead , after I had anointed a few of the more important Poles with precious substances , I built a dam system .
2 By then , however , the invaders had already occupied a third of the state — which they still hold — before the UN brokered a ceasefire .
3 In an earlier chapter we described a few of the complex relationships which exist between different species and different kingdoms of nature .
4 The most I can do is to offer a very brief and personal view of some of the recent changes in emphasis drawing from the syllabuses of ten countries and to isolate a few of the new approaches which strike me as particularly interesting and exciting .
5 And what 's really wrong with knocking a few of the rough edges off your partner ?
6 Well one of the things we did do immediately after the er youth consultation is that we erm , we erected a paid for a skate board ramp at erm one of the youth centres in , in Harlow , so you know , we we creating that facility , but erm , what , you , so you your question was more directed at providing more of those kind of facilities .
7 Via corpse-like appearances in glass cages the crazy parson ended up announcing a lecture-series for the 1937 summer season in a lion 's cage at Skegness .
8 ‘ I want a patch-through on a secure line to Vice-President Odell , ’ he said , ‘ and I want it now . ’
9 We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion .
10 SCOTTISH golf professional Dale Reid yesterday sank a hole-in-one in the final round of the Alpine Australian Ladies Masters on Australia 's Gold Coast .
11 Areas which will be in contact with the cove members should be scratched to provide a key for the Gyproc cove adhesive , then brush away any dust and loose particles .
12 But by extrapolation , I can reasonably expect to find a third of the British insect fauna .
13 Brian Barnes , the man who beat Jack Nicklaus twice in a single day , could introduce a new-look to the Senior 's Tour in Britain .
14 Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ .
15 Javer served for the match at 5–2 in the second , but was taken to seven deuces , before blasting a backhand to the Turk 's feet to snatch the rubber on her sixth match point after one hour 12 minutes .
16 JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores .
17 This is fundamentally a defensive approach reflecting an assumption that progress will inevitably erode biological diversity and quality , and the only way to prevent complete loss is to ring-fence a few of the best ‘ sites ’ for posterity while allowing development to take its course elsewhere .
18 It has been able to obtain a third of the income that it needs from sponsorship , while a further third has been obtained from admission charges .
19 plies a diagonal over the lake
20 Now we 're driving a tenth of the speed , so it 's going to be one over one tenth .
21 THE world 's airlines say that they have carried a billion of the 5.5 billion people on Earth .
22 It took a Maori around four weeks to extract a blank for an adze-blade from a pebble of nephrite and another six to shape it ( fig. 12 ) .
23 The waiter picked up a fork and tried a few from the man 's plate .
24 3 Place a third of the apple mixture in the bottom of a glass bowl and top with a third of the breadcrumbs .
25 Do not completely cover the tank bottom with mops , just place a few in the central region of the tank .
26 China has a fifth of the world 's population , but only seven per cent of its arable land — mainly in the densely populated eastern strip .
27 At the moment the academy has a nearmonopoly of the subject , and I would like to see it broken , in a recognition of the traditional cultural truth that good criticism can be written by poets and novelists , and indeed by people whose professional concern is not with literature at all .
28 From the outside , it has a few of the GTi dressings like upgraded wheel trims , spoilers at the front and rear and so on .
29 In May this year David Trippier , Minister for the Environment and Countryside , visited a few of the many Trust projects currently under way in the Lake District .
30 The plan had been for the Americans to discover an unknown for the lead female role but no-one had Miss Leigh 's screen magic .
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