Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see the novelist at the stem rail of a cross-Channel ferry , throwing bits of gristle from his sandwich to the hovering gulls . |
| 2 | Oddly shaped tanks may not hold as much water as you may think , which is important when you consider that the stocking level for a mixed fish/invest system is 1″ of fish per six gallons of water . |
| 3 | Mix the oil , soy sauce , ginger and five spice powder in a shallow dish . |
| 4 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |
| 5 | The Company shall not pay the purchase money to a Defaulting Member until he shall in respect of the shares being the subject of the Compulsory Sale Notice have delivered his share certificates or a suitable indemnity and the necessary transfers to the Company . |
| 6 | Rather ignominiously , it was used as part payment of a bad debt to a coachbuilder , Robert Jeffrey of Grays Inn Road , with whom it remained neglected and almost forgotten until purchased by Madame Tussaud in 1842 for the princely sum of £52 . |
| 7 | This is a practical knitting course with a minimal amount of theory . |
| 8 | For a social worker negotiating admission to a residential home for a dementia sufferer , it is particularly important to work out a contract , using a relative or friend if necessary to sign the contract and become the advocate on behalf of the client . |
| 9 | If you want to transform your quick and easy daytime look into a bold , creative effect for evening , then you need new Finesse Spritz . |
| 10 | Earlier this year , she had pushed through a bumper privatisation bill and won the IMF 's support for Poland 's reforms by keeping this year 's budget deficit to a reasonable 5% of GDP . |
| 11 | You may however see a chest drain on a general surgical ward . |
| 12 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 13 | We have already quoted part of the letter to Rohde , written in December , which gives the best testimony to Nietzsche 's state of mind : " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years … |
| 14 | THOSE of you who saw the last of the recent Antiques roadshows from Rochdale will recall seeing a tinplate toy of a vintage open car with the driver holding a horn to his lips . |
| 15 | B Ltd would then pay up a dividend outside a group income election as a franked payment to A Ltd . |
| 16 | Biarritz fullback Serge Blanco scythes a path through the Toulon defence during a faultless display in his first and last Championship final . |
| 17 | NEWTOWNARDS dairy company Pritchitt Foods has offered a helping hand to refugees in the former Yugoslavia by donating milk powder to a Bosnian relief mission . |
| 18 | ‘ The unedifying scramble for a free judge causes great embarrassment to solicitors vis-a-vis their clients . ’ |
| 19 | Start with black powder eyeshadow on a fine brush , gently build up a fine line close to lashes and out as far as is flattering . |
| 20 | Above all , the questions to be decided in a libel case stand at a curious tangent to the stories that lead up to them . |
| 21 | Van Laue points out that rapid industrialisation would never have found majority support under a parliamentary regime , ‘ especially as Russian liberalism was largely agrarian in orientation ’ . |
| 22 | The proposed uprating of income support by a full 7 per cent . |
| 23 | The former striker played under several big-name managers from the day he made his First Division debut as a raw teenager . |
| 24 | It is a brick building with a long nave which has simple , rectangular plan piers , without capitals , supporting a pointed arched arcade . |
| 25 | So , after luxuriating in its hair shirt for a few days , the City would have sold sterling anyway . |
| 26 | And if skills associated with the new technology are specific to a particular occupation rather than to a firm , why should either employer or employee prefer a long-term contract with one employer rather than a consultancy contract for a particular piece of work ? |
| 27 | Other proposed changes included the simplification of the various existing tapers by creating a single taper , which withdraws housing support from those whose incomes are above the income support level at a faster rate than before . |
| 28 | The housewife who knows that when her electric iron ceases to work she must replace the fuse ( let us say it is a cartridge fuse in a 13-amp plug ) is an empiricist . |
| 29 | Near the head of the lake was the base camp of a French expedition hoping to climb Baruntse , but beset with problems . |
| 30 | We have , in this simple example , a paradigm case of a legislative judgment dominated by consistency in strategy . |