Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be followed , in due course , by a further three-quarters of a mile of track , a run round loop and the construction of a platform at the River Avon , allowing passengers to enjoy the walk , boat trips , riverside pubs and a possible link up with a local country park . |
| 2 | One by one the client 's chains of increasingly irrational thoughts can be extracted rather like a magician pulling a series of connected handkerchiefs out of a pocket . |
| 3 | The effect of this , of course , is to induce an ability to postpone oral instinctual gratification along with a concern about the availability of food — a character ideally suited to the demands of delayed-return systems of subsistence such as seasonal hunter-gathering or , still more , cultivation . |
| 4 | Arthur Penn made a remarkable tall story out of a similar theme in Little Big Man , a sympathetic account of American-Indian life filmed 20 years before Dances With Wolves . |
| 5 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 6 | I put the old electric fire on in the shed , not so much to warm me as to keep the highly hygroscopic mixture from absorbing moisture out of a damp air . |
| 7 | The College maintains close and constant links with the other seven Welsh colleges which run courses in agricultural education and students who obtain a National Certificate in Agriculture at one of them can transfer to the Welsh Agricultural College on to an Ordinary National Diploma course . |
| 8 | A complete and intentional obliteration of a will or any part of it , so that what was written can no longer be seen , amounts to a revocation of what is obliterated ; but merely striking words through with a pen or altering them has no effect , unless the cancellation or alteration is signed by the testator and attested by two witnesses like a new will . |
| 9 | I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree . |
| 10 | Boats heading out past the Needles found just odd cod along with a few whiting , rays , pout and dogfish . |
| 11 | You talk about the inevitable ; as I see it , the inevitable is that you will have to move your mainly large-animal practice out into a more rural area , say , ten or twelve miles away . |
| 12 | He and the other members of the company were picking out shapeless ingots , precious gems and buckled coins , licking their fingers as they burnt them , as if they were pulling roast chestnuts out of a grate . |
| 13 | According to On Location ( January 1985 ) , a trade paper , they achieved 130 seconds of film at a resolution of 3000 x 1620 pixels ( that is , nearly five million ‘ bits ’ of picture information ) in mapping flat still-picture data on to a simulated sphere and programmed in movements from a map of wind-currents on Jupiter . |
| 14 | There are still traces of the original area — the ruined synagogue now being restored , old signs up on a wall of the cloth factories of the past and , surprisingly , a new kosher shop and restaurant . |
| 15 | This summer the centre will have many of corporate customers , high flyers out for a trial lesson with their colleagues . |
| 16 | One diver on a previous expedition to the Arctic got bent after chasing an elusive jellyfish down past a safe limit and having his regulator freeze up . |
| 17 | Fred rinsed the old tea out of a cup and poured some Scotch and tap water into it . |
| 18 | ‘ It just sounded really funny coming out of an ambient track . |
| 19 | My advice to agencies : send someone out with a quid or so to buy a magazine before you advertise in it ; or better still , have those editorial folk over for a Gordon 's & Tonic . . . . |
| 20 | I use a 300gsm Arches rough cotton watercolour paper , and brushes ranging from a no3 for detailed work through to a one inch for broad colour washes . |
| 21 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 22 | I 'm only an 'omeless girl out of an orphanage ; you 're the clever one . |
| 23 | As a consequence , ‘ Scientific research is not a neutral activity : child abuse was launched as a public issue out of a variety of private interests and its subsequent development has continued to reflect those and other interests ’ ( Dingwall , 1989 ) . |
| 24 | Allan Lamb looked to be guiding England through with a gutsy 55 before popping a catch to wicketkeeper Moin Khan . |
| 25 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 26 | But it comes with a very annoying gyrating sound as the mirror , activated by the music source , vibrates to reflect the light beam on to a wall or ceiling . |
| 27 | Terry B says it 's great to be back and he 's heard there 's a race for the over fifties which he may have a go at … he 's getting itchy feet and will soon be back riding for trainers … he 's also got his old job back as a steward at Worcester races and his public still love him |
| 28 | Hilary , 48 , of Bath , Avon , won £8,000 compensation and her old job back at an industrial tribunal earlier this year , after a 15-month battle . |
| 29 | Could I also say that erm again going back to Strathclyde that there is a , a social , there is a subsidy for those services erm where there is a social need up to a certain point and that is governed by the finance available , but its not as though , this is just the commercial network , in fact , er I think its erm something in the order of ninety two per cent of services in Strathclyde are commercially operated and it is Strathclyde region that fills the gaps . |
| 30 | Although the Germans had used a warning radar since before 1939 , the Bruneval station included a new Würzburg set with its 20-foot ( 6m ) dish aerial able to range guns and direct planes on to a single aircraft . |