Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Annie Griffin came to Britain from New York in 1980 as a student and since 1986 has been devising and performing original work for the theatre . |
| 32 | He retired in 1980 as a director and Manager of his Bristol office . |
| 33 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 34 | I am now expected to lift her , helpless as a fool that she is , out of that great bed , daily , across the room , into a chair , and back again , and to run up and down when she catches a chill , when her back aches from being pressed against the chair . |
| 35 | It sleeps eight comfortably , and rents for between £352 and £489 each for a week if eight share , including hire of one car and flights , or £449 to £699 each if four take it . |
| 36 | Generally speaking , a 140 litre ( 5 cubic feet ) refrigerator and 140–170 litres ( 5–6 cubic feet ) of freezer space is ample for a couple and you should add another cubic foot per person in your household . |
| 37 | De Gaulle opted for Pleven 's solution , on the grounds that the medicine that Mendès-France prescribed was too strong for a nation that was still recovering from its wounds . |
| 38 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 39 | My former BBC colleague at Westminster , John Harrison , reporting from Zimbabwe on Maundy Thursday , caught the horror of it in a memorable phrase : the cost of an Easter egg , he said , would keep a child alive for a month or more . |
| 40 | Many daughters who are caring full-time for a parent or parents at home have financial worries too . |
| 41 | Do n't do the i y , e one , because we 'll take that as a spelling and grammatical change . |
| 42 | The whole story is not yet known , although it 's claimed that North Korea er invaded South Korea er I sh I should take that as a hypothesis and not as a fact . |
| 43 | Can individuals and the community serve without spiritual values What about that as a starter before we look at the other questions , then . |
| 44 | He 'd always thought of that as a cliché before he met Emily . |
| 45 | Would they take that as a lesson and conform to the party 's expectations of educated youth ? |
| 46 | Campese dismissed the matter , but when he chose to put less confidence in the cover on the field and deliberately knocked down Peter Winterbottom 's pass , Bevan should have taken that as an admission that the so-far impregnable ‘ Gold Wall ’ was about to be breached . |
| 47 | Now y'know you can come up with a description of that as an ellipse but in exactly the same shape , in a slightly different context , yeah , you know it 's actually circular and it 's a hoop and your perception of the object is different . |
| 48 | I took that as an indication that I could play him every match . |
| 49 | Going on down er , the profit and loss account , the tax charge er , is lower as a percentage than it was this time last year . |
| 50 | Some knowing souls disagree with the national selectors ' assessment in reckoning that Watt is too tall for a prop and that in the 1990 District Championship he was the outstanding ball-winner at the front of the line-out . |
| 51 | Savognia was exceptionally tall for an Italian and stood well above Ludovico . |
| 52 | The little maid is sedate as a judge and reminds me every day of her mother . |
| 53 | Of the structures actually perceivable in polymers one may consider the spherulite in a semi-crystalline polymer as being unsuitable as an RVE because the boundary is not included . |
| 54 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 55 | In the course of their mission , which takes each through a death and rebirth ( Harris is required to plunge to the bowels of the earth , breathing a kind of oxygenated foetal fluid ) , they learn to love each other again . |
| 56 | Reaching 50 caused Claire Gallois to turn against this way of conducting things and against the world in which ageing is much more cruel for a woman than for a man . |
| 57 | An analogy would be with the familiar general principle of criminal law that a person can not be guilty as an aider and abettor unless ( in technical terms ) one can point to a principal offender who has committed the actus reus of an offence . |
| 58 | This makes no biological sense , of course , but it has a certain psychological validity , in that the significance to most members of our society of the difference between , say , a thrush and a blackbird is roughly comparable to that between a collie and a spaniel . |
| 59 | The relationship between these men and their clients was likened to that between a cobra and its prey . |
| 60 | It is clear from this , he said , that the connection between an insurer or insurance broker and his client is not nearly so firm as , for example , that between a solicitor and his client . |