Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's enabled us all to work and to conduct our cases in as an amiable atmosphere as the adversarial system allows , and we are grateful for that . |
| 2 | Some weeks later , I receive a note of thanks along with an engraved beermug . |
| 3 | Due for completion later this year , the precinct will also include 63 individual shop units along with an upper food court with seating for 420 people . |
| 4 | Finally it will provide an indication of the incidence of special classes in HE to bring candidates up to an adequate level of attainment to cope on the mainstream course . |
| 5 | She finishes what she is doing , gives herself a resolute shake and lets the sea breeze dry her , rises slowly , pulls her dark blue tights up in an unhurried manner , and adjusts her skirt . |
| 6 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 7 | With the help of a co-operative credit analyst who is three months out of an English degree , we package a stunning little credit that sweeps through the loan committees without even a flesh wound . |
| 8 | Dugard , who has been an international for five years , lines up in an experimental team against an Australian side weakened by injury . |
| 9 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 10 | Following a brief chat with my fellow editorial staffers concerning such unimportant matters as choosing a writer or an illustrator appropriate to the piece , I will go to see Brian , our in-house number-cruncher and say something like , ‘ Hello Brian , ’ ( I always like to get meetings off to an informal and uncontroversial start ) ‘ I 'd just like to discuss next week 's cover story . ’ |
| 11 | If you 'd had all people come in and try to bring in new ideas on to an old system , I do n't think it would have worked . |
| 12 | At one gig in Melbourne the crowd invaded the stage in such numbers that LIAM had to stop the show and lead the uninvited participants off in an orderly line . |
| 13 | You say pick your anchors up in an old boat ? |
| 14 | But when the first baiter led his teams on to an unploughed field he did not have to trouble his head about the width of the stetches : that had been fixed by long usage and probably appeared to him then as unalterable an aspect of the landscape as the roads and the hedges . |
| 15 | Cats , on the other hand , can hear sounds up to an astonishing 10,000 cycles per second . |
| 16 | The sensation in her vulva was quite pleasurable , but not to be compared with the quiet delight of teasing people 's thoughts and feelings out of an unfamiliar language . |
| 17 | Now the rather depressing side of football pools as you only get twenty eight pounds in the hundred pounds back in an overall figure . |
| 18 | The shelter packs down into an attached stuff sack . |
| 19 | one who pretends to have picked up an apparently valuable ( but actually worthless ) ring which he palms off on an unwary buyer . |
| 20 | to the allotment ( otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph above ) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of £53 256 906 . |
| 21 | to the allotment [ otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph [ a ] above ] of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,350,000 ; |
| 22 | B. ‘ That , subject to the passing of Resolution A , before this meeting , the Directors be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 24 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 to allot equity securities ( as defined by section 23 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 ) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by such resolution as if sub-section ( 1 ) of the said Section 23 did not apply to any such allotment provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of shareholders and to the allotment ( otherwise than pursuant to a rights issue as aforesaid ) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal value of IR£1,772,100 . |
| 23 | He knew how to create extraordinary visual effects simply by changing the direction of his brush stroke , so that light streams down from an unseen sun , or a horizon line is conjured up out of three horizontal bands of subtly modulated shades of blue . |
| 24 | Indeed , holding prices down to an inefficient level of costs may be inferior in its effects to a form of control in which prices are high but costs are low . |
| 25 | ‘ Mephitic ’ might be compared with Fraser 's ‘ ulcerous ’ in ‘ Resentment wells up like an ulcerous vapour ’ . |
| 26 | Flies are capable of beating their wings at speeds up to an astonishing 1000 beats a second . |
| 27 | Hang the curtains by inserting one curtain hook into each glider on track or pole and draw the curtains back into an open position . |
| 28 | The monster was at its most mellow that day , but still energetic enough to toss Sinar Surya 's hundred tons around in an alarming manner . |
| 29 | He stood there , shouting along and flapping his arms round like an over-excited seagull . |
| 30 | The guy who let us in flops down on an old divan . |