Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BRUTE punished his four-year-old step-daughter by spinning her in a tumble-drier , a court heard yesterday . |
| 2 | One Suffolk farm servant paid five shillings every week in the 1900s to help a sister keep their eighty-year-old mother . |
| 3 | There was a sister watching us all the time , and when we went to walk out into the garden she said it was n't allowed . |
| 4 | He took his top fifty officers to a resort to hold their annual financial planning meeting . |
| 5 | It may seem hardly worth while defining a function to do something this simple . |
| 6 | In 1842 six ships were at anchor in Funchal Bay when a hurricane blew them all onto the shore . |
| 7 | Queen Margaret came out of the church , a veil covering her grief-stricken face . |
| 8 | He carried a stick to aid his ailing right leg which had been broken deliberately by the STB while he was in prison . |
| 9 | In the preceding ‘ organisation chain' B and C might pool their authority to make a decision affecting their common area of work , or affecting subordinates D , E and F , instead of referring their problem to A. Management conferences are an example of attempts to exchange ideas and reach collective decisions on the basis of pooled authority . |
| 10 | In both editions of this book , I made a decision to use what some linguists have called ‘ the visibility strategy ’ , or ‘ positive language ’ , in which all generics are feminine : she , her . |
| 11 | On the insistence of Khalil Ullah Khan , one of Aurangzeb 's agents in the Imperial army , Dara made a decision to leave his strong defensive position and open the attack . |
| 12 | Making a decision makes you responsible for what happens afterwards . |
| 13 | One way is to check whether a consultancy has its own guidelines , aims and objectives for the audits it is offering . |
| 14 | Stranded … a driver pushes his marooned car in Llandudno today . |
| 15 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 16 | A FRAIL old woman was battered and then left in agony for half an hour while a gang ransacked her luxury house . |
| 17 | A gang beating someone senseless with concrete is committing grievous bodily harm — a serious offence with an immediate public power of arrest . |
| 18 | ‘ The fact that no fewer than half the funds invested in small firms in Scotland comes from personal equity shows that Scots do have a flair for enterprise and a willingness to back their own judgment that is essential in every entrepreneur . ’ |
| 19 | A minimum of historical awareness and a willingness to confront our own past is what is needed to teach us that , quite as much as knowledge of ‘ Arab culture ’ . |
| 20 | Because the patient is trying to communicate in the fewest possible words , and a sentence missing its function words is easier to understand than a sentence missing its content words . |
| 21 | Moreover , the thin weal of the scar along his cheek was of a kind to tell its own story . |
| 22 | He suddenly realised that the French really did believe that he was here on a secret and delicate diplomatic mission on Edward I 's behalf , that his interest in Alexander III 's death was mere drapery , a trick to conceal his true task . |
| 23 | For such a response to become our regular practice implies much personal reordering , discipline and growth . |
| 24 | I said I 'll give you a tenner to build it all for me . |
| 25 | Mr John Wilkinson ( C. Ruislip Northwood ) , who came sixth in the private members ' bills ballot , yesterday announced a measure to make it obligatory to apply for planning permission before a dwelling house is demolished . |
| 26 | Impatience even — which is a blight threatening us all the time . ’ |
| 27 | When a Cichlid accentuates its dark bars , making them jet black and very distinct , this is the result of black pigment ( melanin ) moving to the surface of the chromatophore . |
| 28 | Guttersnipe does not wish to appear ungallant but might not a carrier-bag serve her avowed purpose at a mere fraction of the cost ? |
| 29 | A computer programmer would almost certainly get a computer to do it that way , but I doubt whether the brain does . |
| 30 | In a unitised project , persons having differing interests in two or more different areas or " tracts " agree that a field underlying their respective tracts should be developed and produced as one project . |