Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privet and yew combine in an effective two-tone design |
| 2 | Buddie was sitting on a hard chair with one foot resting on an upturned petrol-tin . |
| 3 | 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% . |
| 4 | Of course , what Oxford " meant " and the source of its " powers " , a classical curriculum taught within an intimate collegiate system , could hardly be extended . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , that 's a squirrel recovering from an air-rifle shot . |
| 6 | The 1962 Planning Act upheld the right of any applicant to have their case heard at an oral hearing , but the 1976 Planning Act made this a discretionary matter for An Bord Pleanala to decide . |
| 7 | This change led to an enormous effort to begin active treatment in the neonatal period for virtually all infants with this condition . |
| 8 | However , where a decision has been made to make redundancies and employees have been informed , the contingency crystallises into an actual liability . |
| 9 | Symbolically the owl sits on an Evil Eye that has been pierced by a spear , suggesting that the owl 's own ‘ Evil Eye ’ has been incapacitated by the mobbing display . |
| 10 | Their presence in totally inadequate police accommodation is authorised by the Prisons ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1980 , a statute passed as an emergency measure to cope with an industrial dispute with prison officers and used almost continuously ever since . |
| 11 | He even asked the taxi driver to go via an off licence . |
| 12 | Below the well , a waterfall tumbled across an artificial rockery . |
| 13 | The combination of ranitidine with cisapride further diminished the acid reflux found with ranitidine — that is , cisapride led to an additional reduction of total reflux ( from 6.4 ( 1.2- 22.8 ) % to 3.7 ( 1.0–12.7 ) % , p<0.01 ) , supine reflux ( p<0.05 ) , and postprandial reflux ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 14 | The conference decision arose from an implicit assumption by the Carnegie Trustees that following a three-year funding of successful pilot schemes , subsequent responsibility would be assumed by LEAs . |
| 15 | Progress depended upon an ascetic , unflinching commitment to ‘ realism ’ . |
| 16 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of an appointed Senate and a 17-member House of Assembly which is popularly elected for a five-year term . |
| 17 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of an appointed Senate and a 17-member House of Assembly which is popularly elected for a five-year term . |
| 18 | The last sentence refers to an earlier conversation between Green and Hickson in which the latter had claimed that the Cambridgeshire LEA would not be prepared to support the work of the District , whereas the Board had been offered a grant of £100 for 1931–32 and the prospect of increased grant-aid in subsequent years . |
| 19 | Gate , now the game 's official historian , has written a typically well researched text to go with an excellent collection of illustrations and cartoons . |
| 20 | Hegemony evolves in an extensive but temporary form , equilibrium is only relative . |
| 21 | The fight starts with an overhead view of the ring . |
| 22 | Another failure of the same part occurred during an asymmetric training flight on a Seneca at Kidlington . |
| 23 | Samson Agonistes exemplifies a problem which has stood at the centre of current inquiry into the negotiations a text has with an historical context . |
| 24 | ‘ So it emerges from these authorities that the retention of moneys known to have been paid under a mistake at law , although it is a course permitted to an ordinary litigant , is not regarded by the courts as a ‘ high-minded thing ’ to do , but rather as a ‘ shabby thing ’ or a ‘ dirty trick ’ and hence is a course which the court will not allow one of its own officers , such as a trustee in bankruptcy , to take . |
| 25 | When the algorithm starts with an empty grammar , the only symbols it has are those in the text . |
| 26 | Within the ERM a Labour government would presumably find its freedom to launch into an unwise , inflationary spending spree greatly restricted . |
| 27 | Whereas Serena is concerned to domesticate her problems , Stella consciously strives to exaggerate her own eccentricity , yet her resilience and the regularity of her yo-yo-like existence testify to an underlying solidity . |
| 28 | If a sentence starts with an unstressed syllable , leave it out of consideration — it does n't belong in a foot . |
| 29 | This colonial-style bungalow stands in an elevated position , set back from the main road , with fine views of the small Somerset town of Crewkerne and the surrounding hills . |
| 30 | Thunder detonated like an underground bomb . |