Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaving present given to an ambassador could still take a variety of different forms . |
| 2 | Lacuna stood straight and trembling , like a statue shaken by an earth tremor . |
| 3 | A mushroom disguised as an onion bhaji with flaking batter was a mouthwatering morsel , but not really a dish in its own right , more an interlude before the chicken à la British Airways , both accompanied by more Hellmans relatives . |
| 4 | We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines . |
| 5 | To help facilitate the distribution of mail and delivery of messages an alphabetical guest list is maintained , usually on a revolving stand located in an area easily accessible to all staff of the reception area . |
| 6 | It may be difficult deciding when sentences of this kind come to an end — in some cases , several dozen clauses might be linked by and or other devices , lasting several minutes — but , it is unusual to find a problem understanding what is being said . |
| 7 | It samples on a continuous basis and determines , in real time , the amount of dissolved , non-volatile solid contained in an ultrapure water system . |
| 8 | These include a flan dish featuring the apple pie recipe and a chopping board decorated with an illustration of the Ripon Hornblower and the recipe for Wilfra tarts . |
| 9 | Leaving the whorehouse with the wig tucked under an arm , he reflected that it was worth at least what he had paid to have Surere off his back . |
| 10 | 28 Dim piece developed into an outbreak ( 8 ) |
| 11 | Pepper explained in an interview , ‘ When I came to the hotel I was sort of looking for work . |
| 12 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 13 | They refused to confirm reports that he used a syringe hidden in an orange . |
| 14 | At about this time the wife of one of Leslie 's men , anticipating the ultimate verdict , sent me a highly elaborate printed card intended as an acknowledgment of condolence on the loss of her husband . |
| 15 | The Great Tower is five hundred years old … to celebrate … past and present members of Magdalen college joined in an anniversary peal . |
| 16 | Dr Kai Simons of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory has found that at least some animal viruses enter the cell surrounded by an envelope of cell membrane . |
| 17 | Hence the social positions of the university 's new class that Bourdieu describes in Homo Academicus are ‘ ill defined ’ and have their ‘ future surrounded with an aura of indeterminacy and vagueness ’ which ‘ allows students to perpetuate as long as possible … an indeterminacy of social identity ’ . |
| 18 | Had her career as an actress come to an end ? |
| 19 | Fielding a side picked with an eye on the forthcoming Toulon tournament and an under-20 game with Italy next month , the Scots took the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 20 | This new method of composition can be seen clearly by comparing an etching of a figure done as an illustration for Max Jacob 's Saint Matorell and securely datable to Cadaquès , with a drawing done a few months earlier . |
| 21 | Before the action came on for trial the defendant applied for an adjustment of his liabilities under the Liabilities ( Wartime Adjustment ) Act 1941 . |
| 22 | The defendant applied for an order that the five other members of the management committee , including the appellant , be joined under Order 5 , rule 5 as persons responsible to pay damages and costs to the plaintiff . |
| 23 | Thus the doctor will be persuaded to err on the side of caution and to disregard the expressed view of his patient ; that is , just as earlier we noted the possibility of the patient 's view being overridden by an excess of zeal , now we see the same result produced by an excess of caution . |
| 24 | A pig rooted in an orchard , and milk cows lowed from the farmyard . |
| 25 | The Dickens study offered as an alternative to the current system an arbitral system as a way of overcoming the perceived disadvantages of the industrial tribunal system ( Dickens et al. , 1985 , ch. 9 ) . |
| 26 | Elsewhere in the sale four ‘ vortographs ’ — formal studies of fractured light produced by an assemblage of mirrors placed between the subject and the lens — by Alvin Langdon Coburn made £268,400 in total , nearly four times their estimate . |
| 27 | These methods are based on a monoclonal antibody against 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine ( BrdU ) , which is confined to S phase cells , and a more broad assessment of proliferation based on an antibody against proliferating cell nuclear antigen ( PCNA , clone 19A2 ) . |
| 28 | A foreign language , in contrast , carries the problem that there is virtually no evidence of capacity at the primary level — and a judgement or prediction based on an analogy with a proved capacity in a native language is open to doubt . |
| 29 | Using this relation ( µ M /µ E = cos α/2; where µ M is the electrophoretic mobility of the DNA-protein complex with the protein bound at the middle of the DNA fragment , µ E is the mobility of the complex with protein bound at an end ) we determined bending angles of 47°±5° for the ICP4 motif and 44°±5° for the Ad2 motif from several experiments using 4% gels . |
| 30 | With the development of strong , authoritarian , state-like bodies , human control over arid and semi-arid areas was extended through irrigation works , whose construction and maintenance called for an organization which Wittfogel ( 1957 , p.136 ) characterized as ‘ benevolent in form and oppressive in content . ’ |