Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the broadest level , the Course contributes in a major way to the achievement of the Polytechnic 's overall aims . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gabriel waited for him to break away and in that instant got in a good burst , peppering the cockpit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Services at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury have been saved by a decision to invest in a new maternity unit . |
| 8 | In the present context of the nine archetypes , a description given in a Gnostic text is particularly interesting . |
| 9 | An administrative block of text arranged in a standard format which is added to all LIFESPAN modules . |
| 10 | For our part , we have learnt a considerable amount about the world beyond school , made many friends , and seen our school and its curriculum develop in a positive healthy way . |
| 11 | Just before Christmas when she was twelve , she had her hair plaited in a hundred little plaits with a bead on the end of each plait . |
| 12 | A notice board placed in a suitable part of the ward is useful for presenting learning material . |
| 13 | This attractive four-hundred-year-old listed building situated in a conservation area in the old town of Bridgnorth was once a Temperance hostel . |
| 14 | All Byzantine decorative form is a mixture of east and west treated in a symbolic rather than realistic manner ( 187 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time . |
| 16 | Printing plays in a cheap , unbound , quarto format indicates that the drama was commonly perceived as on the same standing as almanacs , joke books , pamphlets , and other popular writing which appeared in the same form . |
| 17 | The second failkure occurred in a 77 year old man who presented with severe secretary diarrhoea ( 15 motions per day ) , hypokalaemia , hyponatraemia , and prerenal failure . |
| 18 | The overall aims of the experience would be specified , including : to give students the opportunity to work in a real production kitchen where the pace , the expectations and the allowed tolerances would be different from a college training kitchen ; to give students the chance to see and use specialist equipment unavailable at college ; to give the students the opportunity to assess their own personal skills , including the ability to cope on their own , away from home . |
| 19 | The whole station was like some vast and awkward school dance , where need and constraint mingle in a heady , violent ferment of suppression . |
| 20 | His black hair lies in a hundred casual curls . |
| 21 | EDDIE NEWTON , the rising Chelsea star who had his jaw smashed in a racist attack just six months ago , is determined to break Manchester United hearts at Stamford Bridge today . |
| 22 | Significantly , the statutorily required information compilations emanating from these bodies for the most part appear in a defined physical format : |
| 23 | I saw the lizard again , darting from her matted hair to hide in a broken fruitbowl . |
| 24 | Inability to work in a particular job or profession or for a particular employer is insufficient . |
| 25 | Pupils should be given the opportunity to write in a wide range of forms : diaries , formal letters , chronological accounts , reports , pamphlets , reviews ( of books , television programmes , films or plays ) , essays , newspaper articles , biography , autobiography , poems , stories , play-scripts , TV or film-scripts . |
| 26 | His hair curled in a thick golden tangle , his skin stretched taut and golden-bronze over his rolling muscles and over his high cheekboned , demonically handsome face . |
| 27 | Also , my machine 's QVision card sits in a slow 8MHz ISA expansion slot , which restrains it considerably . |
| 28 | It has direct access to the sea , three swimming pools and a night club situated in a separate building in the gardens of the hotel . |
| 29 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 30 | Members of the club joined in a wide range of activities and ate a healthy lunch at the Southlands Centre , Middlesbrough . |