Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that if the calculations you give exclude the tail , another 48″ of fish should be removed to bring the stocking level down to a manageable size . |
| 2 | I have been lucky enough to stroke porpoises from a rowing boat in Loch Torridon , swim in a deep burn with a baby otter in Ardnamurchan and help clear somebody 's cottage loft out of a deep pile of pine marten droppings . |
| 3 | In addition to these direct effects , InsP 3 may stimulate calcium entry indirectly through a more complex mechanism involving the ER . |
| 4 | I could see it now , like a slow motion film , Mr McNaughton peeling me off Sharon Latimer like peeling chewing gum away from a desktop … |
| 5 | The banks or organisations that issue them guarantee payment of bills run up by the credit card holder up to a certain limit . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly the ideal solutions would be ( I ) preservation of significant β-cell function by selectively suppressing immunological destruction permitting at least some degree of physiological glucose homeostasis or ( 2 ) a miniature insulin pump that would infuse insulin subcutaneously , regulated by a sensor indicating the tissue fluid glucose level together with a suitably programmed microprocessor system . |
| 7 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 8 | But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour . |
| 9 | Place the cake tin base down on a sheet of paper ( double thickness if necessary ) , and draw round it with a pencil . |
| 10 | Because we want to take as many voluntary redundancies and early retirements as possible , and with employee turnover still at a relatively high six per cent per year , we can not say at present just where and when the jobs will go . |
| 11 | Nominated for two BAFTA Awards , WIDOWS was a critical and popular success turning assumptions about professional crime upside down from a woman 's point of view ( the widows ) . |
| 12 | She eased her sticking back from the car seat up to a cafe where a boy with slanting eyes and a towel tied round his waist wiped a table clean for them , then shook a filthy cloth over it with a flourish . |
| 13 | They also do n't like wind rock so in a , an exposed position young plants do really need more staking than you 'd probably give a bush because they tend to rot off at the roots if they grow around a lot . |
| 14 | Mr Lamont had cut car tax from 10 per cent to five per cent in March this year but his action failed to pull the car industry out of a three-year nose dive . |
| 15 | Yet , till the day she died , she put the tea tray down on a lighter table , next to the heavy one , that had survived . |
| 16 | The line of a jaw , the curve of a breast , the way the hair falls just so : as well as this potent mix of stored physical ideals — what Simonde de Beauvoir called ‘ incandescence ’ — you are , like it or not , influenced by fundamental programming which dictates that , while the ‘ higher ’ processes of your mind dicker around in a gadfly twentieth-century way , the areas of the brain that control instinctive behaviour are looking for a mate , a woman of energy and physical alertness : a good breeder . |
| 17 | The weapons were found buried in deep undergrowth near the murder scene along with a petrol can and blue polythene sheeting , believed to have been used to carry coal to stoke the massive blaze where Mr Pettitt 's body was burned . |
| 18 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 19 | The book , entitled ‘ The Land of the Roe ’ , has been written by local school teacher Mr Samuel Mitchell and has been produced in association with Limavady Borough Council mainly as a resource for schools and colleges in the council area . |
| 20 | Van Gogh 's " Sunflowers " dominated her living room along with a painting by a famous aboriginal artist . |
| 21 | Eleven children were excluded because of severe problems in the operated ear , which was treated by insertion of a long stay Goode type tympanostomy tube instead of a Shepard tube . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh no , ’ she groaned , pulling the bedroom curtain aside on a sky swirling with snowflakes , like a shaken paperweight . |
| 23 | Seasoned Cabinet minister walks into the Commons tea room late on a Thursday morning . |
| 24 | Darryl Davidson of Gregson Road , Hoghton , Preston wins a VIP day out for a party of four people on the East Lancashire Railway because he was the first entry selected at random with the four correct answers to our quiz based on the North West line . |
| 25 | His mother presses the sweets into his hand like someone handing blood plasma over in a war zone . |
| 26 | Another variation on repetitious dieting involves having a liquid protein drink instead of a meal . |
| 27 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 28 | I stopped to look round , and saw a figure jump quickly behind a tree . |
| 29 | Sport , and with the new football season just over a month old , Oxford United Football Club probably feels they 've had enough problems to last them for a lifetime . |
| 30 | The soldiers who had been detailed to make the arrests in the Rathcoole district together with a handful of other arrests in a section of Belfast were accidentally omitted when the new instructions were sent out . |