Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A plant of noble proportions producing numerous stems each consisting of a large shiny green leaf and a leafy bract from which a spike of soft blue flowers emerges . |
2 | On the basis of these standards , SCOTVEC is creating a new series of awards in training and assessing , each consisting of a single unit . |
3 | Even so , the advice is similar in principle to that given for a westward flight . |
4 | This results in a common word like " History " being assigned a weight which is very low compared with that assigned to a rare word such as " swords " . |
5 | I think that to go to a full service that is actually what 's moving , go back again is actually just confusing the people . |
6 | There 's more of worth , more that uplifts in a single chorus of ‘ We Need Money' ’ than in a dozen of your picky , pedantic articles ! ’ |
7 | Does that exist as a real force ? ’ |
8 | One of his most vivid memories is of three separate groups of fedayeen , each situated on a different hill , singing to each other just before dawn ; it was a polyphony , ‘ a great improvisation performed among the mountains , in the midst of danger ’ , heedless of death , expressing and eliciting love ( pp. 36 — 40 ) . |
9 | is a vast neighbourhood and it 's got no outlet , where everything goes up and everything has to come back out again and all that goes along a small country road . |
10 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
11 | A practical circus consists of a series of tasks each placed at a different position in the room . |
12 | He also understood what few canvassers of the more earnest sort admit , even to themselves : that canvassing in a parliamentary election is not supposed to change electors ' minds . |
13 | That amounted to a separate and independent cause of action . |
14 | In addition there were regional and county federations : by 1901 these had risen to thirty-six , with each centred on a major town to enable the stronger , urban Councils to help the weaker , rural ones . |
15 | It is difficult to believe these comments refer to the same Report as that evaluated in a balanced leader in the Independent ( 16 November 1988 ) under the headline ‘ A blow for literacy ’ . |
16 | That points to a possible cause of friction within the Major gang . |
17 | Is that agreed as a fair way of proceeding ? |
18 | There were fears that if the date for stabilisation was altered from that promised in a recent government white paper , the privatisation of the electricity industry would be jeopardised . |
19 | But it failed to recognize that the challenge of running an individual company was very different to that posed by a large public organization with a multiplicity of purposes whose owners were n't shareholders but taxpayers who felt entitled to demand access to those things the nation already owned . |
20 | Well I mean look at that that looks like a real fire . |
21 | That looks like a young man 's demagogy ( cp . |
22 | So erm mark your axes , work out what your scale is going to be , to fit it all on , I mean that that looks like a nice fit . |
23 | That looks like a little island with water round it . |
24 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
25 | The defence that an " offer of amends " had been made failed on two counts : it had not been made " as soon as practicable " ( seven weeks had elapsed since publication ) and " reasonable care " had not been exercised , because a check with current stage directories would have revealed that the name chosen for the fictitious actress was the same as that used by a leading West End lady . |
26 | Instead , properties would be placed in one of eight broad bands each relating to a national average value . |
27 | These are each framed by a swallow-tailed black line . |
28 | There he was , all right — a tiny figure , in perfect colour , standing in front of a group of Watchmen whose faces were each frozen in a terrified rictus . |
29 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
30 | Likewise , if you have already written a will , it is strongly recommended that you have this checked by a professional adviser to ensure that you do not give money unnecessarily to the taxman . |