Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The storm builds to a particular intensity . |
| 2 | More handsome than ever in his morning suit , his black hair gleaming with a brilliant sheen , and his eyes , his once dark and brooding eyes , now alight with the glow of love in them , Marc came swiftly to her side . |
| 3 | At the broadest level , the Course contributes in a major way to the achievement of the Polytechnic 's overall aims . |
| 4 | Passion offers schools , colleges and community venues the opportunity to invest in a vast wealth of information about our work during the 80 's and then draw from that information in a more creative and challenging way . |
| 5 | All treatment was withdrawn for a minimum of two weeks , after which inclusion in the trial depended on a diastolic blood pressure >105 mm Hg . |
| 6 | On this assumption , all is not lost , as the expenses of a training course undertaken by a self-employed person are allowed as a business deduction under general principles when the training is undertaken for the purposes of the trade . |
| 7 | Perhaps Mill 's qualitative utilitarianism points towards a better alternative to the view that pleasure and pain are simply some kind of uniform sensation of which we want respectively , as much and as little as possible . |
| 8 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 9 | For Hopkins , " an old crony of Wilson 's and a newcomer , a volunteer " sky pilot " who clad himself in semi-clerical , semi-nautical garb consisting of a discreet black habit with a seaman 's jersey and a gold crucifix " , he evidently had nothing but contempt . |
| 10 | Privet and yew combine in an effective two-tone design |
| 11 | Buddie was sitting on a hard chair with one foot resting on an upturned petrol-tin . |
| 12 | Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit . |
| 13 | This case points to a possible role for moderate hypothermia in preventing hepatitis secondary to ingestion of paracetamol , when it might be used as an adjunct to treatment with acetylcysteine or haemoperfusion in high risk cases . |
| 14 | Then dis discontinuity , does the function exist for a whole range ? |
| 15 | The concern for the future of the Deutschmark within the EEC erupted belatedly in the Bundestag in early October 1992 ; at the insistence of an all-party committee , the Parliament pressed for a second opportunity to ratify stage 3 of the Maastricht Treaty before the Deutschmark became irrevocably part of the Single Currency . |
| 16 | The strip goes through a rolling mill and a furnace which burns off the cellulose binder , leaving a strip of metal alloy . |
| 17 | It is likely that if five other tokens were considered from a different section of text gathered in a comparable social context the score would turn out to be very different say 80 per cent . |
| 18 | What should have been three comfy nights in a five-star hotel with en-suite jacuzzis turns into a full-blooded , mud-covered fight for survival . |
| 19 | A opportunity arose from a primary study of proliferation in gastric malignancy to investigate BrdUrd labelled gastric mucosa . |
| 20 | They also found that an error of eight weeks in the date of payment led to an average error in the proportionate mispricing of only 0.01% . |
| 21 | One imagines that not a few may actually have seized the opportunity to indulge in a quiet sleep in preparation for the evening stint , for the dinner was formal and the occasion for full ceremonial . |
| 22 | I returned to the toll office , got our money refunded plus a signed waiver that allowed us seven days to return to St Michael without having to pay on the Austrian roads . |
| 23 | If so , it could be that the impact of that experience parallels in a sharpened and intensified form the impact on women of the experience of child-bearing — a potent , personal experience that , however sanitised , brings a woman face-to-face with these three realities . |
| 24 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 25 | Of course , what Oxford " meant " and the source of its " powers " , a classical curriculum taught within an intimate collegiate system , could hardly be extended . |
| 26 | Perhaps instead of competing with each other to sell their wares , Third World countries could get together and force the West to agree to a standard minimum price for commodity prices , like oil-producing countries did with OPEC . |
| 27 | Whether the tape is a real recording of the voices of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles or not , its existence points to a concerted effort to damage Prince Charles . |
| 28 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 29 | In its original form the Bill made provision for a single ballot , the decision resting on a simple majority of those voting . |
| 30 | A similar objection to utilitarianism urged by Williams , Alasdair MacIntyre and others is that utilitarianism goes with a manipulative approach to human life . |