Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests a money increase in the order of 50 per cent from 1790 to 1800 . |
| 2 | We can get a bit rest in the winter , before somebody breaks their word in the spring again . |
| 3 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
| 4 | We got a geezer come to the door you know yeah , and he took a few particulars you know . |
| 5 | The only point I felt w you know we mentioned the other day that if , if there 's a rise say on the first of April then you wan na get in a couple of months before then . |
| 6 | Could n't such a course serve as the best sort of bridge between the two cultures ? |
| 7 | Other 3000 boxes can be upgraded to a 987 with a board swap for a third of the cost of a new system . |
| 8 | Winger Gareth Pratt , signed from Rochdale amateur club Mayfield , bagged a debut try for the home team after David Hill and Mike Blakeley had also crossed . |
| 9 | Roebuck immediately claimed a place in the NSW team and marched into the Australian team making his Test debut against Wales at Ballymore where he scored a debut try in the Wallabies ' record slaughter . |
| 10 | When Bailey wanted Shrimpton to be the model for a Vogue shoot with a collection of British intellectuals in 1961 , he had to fight to convince the fashion editor , Lady Rendlesham , who did not think Shrimpton was quite right . |
| 11 | Does the course lead to a certificate of completion or competence and if so , what value would such a certificate have on the job market ? |
| 12 | Today 's case came out of a fight hear at the Coachmaker 's Arms , but the landlord says the days of Wallingford 's louts are numbered . |
| 13 | It is not everyone who can boast a Spitfire rebuild at the end of the cabbage patch , but with Spencer masterminding and a couple of chaps from the King Air days — two years later the contents of 35 cardboard boxes in pristine Spitfire formation bearing Spencer 's distinctive red livery , graced the skies . |
| 14 | A thin-faced man , balding , in a shirt open at the neck to reveal gold chains , a woman , obviously beautiful in spite of the quality of the photograph , with her hair tied under a scarf Princess Grace style , and another man with a look of the Mediterranean about him whose face was partially obscured by sunglasses . |
| 15 | She found Colin asleep on a rattan lounger on the veranda of his cottage in Holetown . |
| 16 | Some manufacturers have overcome the latter factor by placing the batteries in a compartment separate from the control box ( eg Fisher 1266-X and C-Scope CS4ZX ) . |
| 17 | The question really was , did being alone with me on a boat seem like a good idea or not ? " |
| 18 | I saw him doing a side shuffle to the main entrance as we all trooped along here . |
| 19 | In reality , the guardians of authority collude in the maintenance of the territory once it has been colonized , and as a result enter into the social framework on the terraces . |
| 20 | The rig is about ten feet long and is attached by a blood know to the main reel line . |
| 21 | The Oxford Thesaurus Electronic Edition is very easy to use , the results of a search appear on the screen almost instantaneously and it lacks nothing that the book would have . |
| 22 | HARRISON Ford must have wished for a second take during a speech in London to promote his new film , The Fugitive , based on the hit 1960 television series starring David Janssen . |
| 23 | Temperature/pressure relief valve is the third level of safety and will discharge water ( through a second tundish into a safe and visible place ) if the temperature of the water reaches 95°C . |
| 24 | For John Dunlop , the successful trainer , it was a second win in the juvenile event in three years following the victory of Ashayer in 1987 . |
| 25 | A second push on the central button removes the setting altogether and allows the driver to return to foot control of the tractor . |
| 26 | Keep a sprig separate from the decorations and pop it into a vase of water in a cool place , and keep it until spring . |
| 27 | In or about February 1983 , I received a message via my branch director that the deputy Director-General of MI5 was prepared to consider favourably an application from me for a telephone intercept on a member of the Communist Party within C.N.D. John Cox , a Vice-President of C.N.D. , was selected since he was well known as a member of the Communist Party and had been involved in C.N.D. practically since its inception . |
| 28 | It is comparatively easy to make a machine respond to a simple sound ; such as is needed to enter numbers on a spreadsheet . |
| 29 | Two men were last night helping police investigating a till snatch from a wine shop in North Shields town centre . |
| 30 | Was that my husband I caught a glimpse of through the open casement taking his ease on a sun lounger with a little pile of twigs by his side ? |