Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked out of the sunlight into the cool dark shadow of the gorge , meeting no deity with oozy hair hot a couple eating sandwiches and two crag rats . |
| 2 | Later my father again applied for leave of absence , which Your Grace refused to grant , though you permitted me , who am in any case only a half-time servant , to travel alone . |
| 3 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |
| 4 | Forward planning ( matching load forecasts and planned capacity , thinking about the future regional spread of power stations ) , was , of course , necessary , but was in practice merely a part time function of the ex-CEB engineers in charge of system operation . |
| 5 | Act — making this crime only a summary offence — should be reconsidered . |
| 6 | After all , the buyer wanted to own a car not a computer program . |
| 7 | The judge went on to find that not only was the information contained in the manuals and the feasibility study not a trade secret but that the information contained in the feasibility study was too obvious and too vague and unspecific to be caught by any alleged fiduciary duty that the defendants were under . |
| 8 | Do n't be too influenced either by colour — you can often buy pvc liners in blue or ‘ stone ’ ( buff or beige ) , but you 're constructing a pond not a swimming pool , and mud and algae will soon hide or discolour the liner below water level , and every part that shows above can look glaringly conspicuous . |
| 9 | Its white , openly gay editor Jonathan Van Meter says he 's a journalist not a hip hop artists , but this assertion ( and the fact that other staff members are gay ) did n't stop Russell Simmons , Def Jam owner and Jones ' original partner in the project , from resigning — because of ‘ philosophical differences ’ rooted in hip hop 's general ambivalence towards homosexuals . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's about a musician not a disarmament conference . ’ |
| 11 | Le Bon seemed to have in mind here a church congregation , as in the remarks about people being lifted up ethically in a crowd . |
| 12 | There is outside the study today a glass cabinet displaying various of Mr Farraday 's ornaments , but throughout Lord Darlington 's days , there stood at that spot a bookshelf containing many volumes of encyclopedia , including a complete set of the Britannica . |
| 13 | Throughout his career he has lurched from one extreme to another , noisy then quiet , a prolific goal scorer then a famine victim , a superstar then a substitute . |
| 14 | The latter was having a nap now , which Belinda was pleased about , as she suspected that the dynamic painter might well try to fight fatigue in the future when a painting session was going well . |
| 15 | Even if you work in a large consultancy of the future where a media department controls the production , you will still probably have to write . |
| 16 | He walked back the way he had come and let himself out by a gate in the railing where a metal notice planted in the earth read : Department of the Environment . |
| 17 | ‘ When is a rental level not a rental level ? ’ they asked . |
| 18 | That 's Andrea Chezeris , your other driver of course not a household name |
| 19 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 20 | There were in addition downstairs a boiler room with a bed in it , a bathroom and kitchen . |
| 21 | Bowes Museum is an art museum not a theme park , exercising children 's eyes and minds — their curiosity , powers of observation and fledgling intelligence — rather than taking them on a rollercoaster ride . |
| 22 | There are two main methods by which the purchaser can raise the cash : through a share issue namely a rights issue or a cash placing . |
| 23 | An hour and a half later a police wagon pulled up at the dock , and out from the back climbed a bleary-eyed Howard escorted by two gendarmes . |
| 24 | But is the 23-minute chat really a lovey-dovey phone call between Princess Di and an admirer ? |
| 25 | White 's Irish impressions are to be found in The Godstone and the Blackymor ( 1959 ) , illustrated by Edward Ardizzone , and The Elephant and the Kangaroo ( 1948 ) , a fantasy about a second flood , with White as Noah . |
| 26 | Just before lunch today a Macchi pilot whom I shot down on 9 January was wheeled in , and is now in the next bed to me . |
| 27 | Page 20 Ferranti move : Ferranti moved yesterday to strengthen its control of International Signal and Control , the subsidiary where a £215m fraud is feared , by putting Albert Dodd , a long-standing Ferranti director in charge of ISC . |
| 28 | Most women say they can cope with the idea of afternoons and evenings , holidays and all the rest ; but the thought of 9 am on a weekday when a couple look at each other and the husband says he 's got nothing to do fills many wives with horror . |
| 29 | Aviation enthusiasts are calling for a memorial to be built on a hillside where a wartime pilot crashed . |
| 30 | There are two ways of testing , one is the ‘ instant ’ test where a pin prick of blood is taken from your finger and a small desk-top analyser instantly reads the amount of cholesterol . |