Example sentences of "story [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is to see the story as one of Messianic action . |
| 2 | Happily , Brian was able to dismiss the story as complete fiction . |
| 3 | The wealth and power he clearly possesses by the time he is reunited with his brother would have been regarded by the writer and the first hearers of the story as clear signs of God 's blessing . |
| 4 | The only person who knows about the paintings is Durance himself and he will dismiss Barbara 's story as unfounded speculation . ’ |
| 5 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 6 | It was observed in the study on day care that often the placing of someone into day care appeared to be the end of the story for that individual . |
| 7 | I tell this story for two reasons . |
| 8 | JV Dialogue , the sprawling banking software company , is to open an office in London : the aim of the office — which will be staffed with just one person — is to promote , distribute and support software developed in Russia by its constituent organisations ; the only success story for Soviet software in the West so far is that of Paragraph which has agreements with Apple Computer Inc and Go Corp on its cursive handwriting recognition software . |
| 9 | It is described as a comic love story for clumsy people , and it is just that : endearing , touching , and very , very funny . |
| 10 | Though a form of categorisation was still being executed in the form of a separate story for each moral , the new abstract subject involved use of invention and illustrated animals through their engagement with fable became anthropomorphically represented . |
| 11 | Siobhan offers a story for each , and though the stories vary , her tone stays the same . |
| 12 | It will be the same story for many moons to come . |
| 13 | There can be no disputing the fact that Luke includes this story for one main reason . |
| 14 | And that 's really the story for this afternoon , with sunshine in short supply . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been out-machoing men and bedding women with that story for twenty years . ’ |
| 16 | So that 's er quite erm a success story for those two countries . |
| 17 | It also brings out further one character 's idée fixe ( stonework ) , and develops the theme of racial tension/personal harmony which has been a feature of this relationship in the story for some time . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyway , his story for last night is fairly straightforward . |
| 19 | Cathy was a too-real story about inner-city squalor , broken marriages , homelessness and a shot-to-hell welfare system . |
| 20 | This book is far from just a story about budding aircraft , it reveals the human squabbles , foolishness and chicanery that goes hand-in-hand with all undertakings involving industry and governments , plus the double-dealing that occurs in international commercial competition , let alone in politics . |
| 21 | There 's an apocryphal story about former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt , that his opening gambit in chit-chat was often ‘ My grandmother 's just died . ’ |
| 22 | The press , slow to grasp the significance of what had happened , treated it as a light hearted story about bleached hair turning green . ’ |
| 23 | I could tell a story about political tendencies , children , employment , poetry , unemployment , history ; I could say , for instance : |
| 24 | Corporal Herve had christened us ‘ Les Aigles Noirs ’ , The Black Eagles , after a comic strip story about superhuman warriors . |
| 25 | A few weeks ago , the Sun , a Murdoch newspaper in the UK with a circulation of over four million , ran a story about new words for sex . |
| 26 | After the laughter had died away , he told a story about one particular commercial that he 'd worked on . |
| 27 | Uncle used to tell the story about one of the fiery kind , a real character , who delivered a sermon one Sunday in a chapel with an unusually long pulpit . |
| 28 | AT just after 3pm yesterday the Press Association put out a story about Prime Minister Neil Kinnock kissing the Queen 's hand . |
| 29 | There was a story about poisoned soap being dropped on Hartlepool — but no mention of Shingle Street . |
| 30 | It was an uneasy switch from the difficulties of homeowners to a light-hearted story about hard-up baboons staging hold-ups of passing cars . |