Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked Where Tim , the ostler , listened ; his face was white and peaked , His eyes were hollows of madness , his hair like mouldy hay ; But he loved the landlord 's daughter , |
| 2 | The report was published for all the world to take note — a case illustrating why aircraft accident reports should always be published if it is at all possible . |
| 3 | The sheets felt a bit damp so Mary spread them out on the terrace in the sun to dry . |
| 4 | A decision to lay off 10% of the work force tells the old story of the drone worker . |
| 5 | S J Paliwoda ( International Marketing ) draws attention to the need to evaluate political risk in a country before taking a decision to set up operations within that country . |
| 6 | There may be a decision to break off negotiations precisely in order to achieve some end in those negotiations . |
| 7 | Chairman Ken Bailey said unless there were special reasons , a driver doing over 100mph was normally banned . |
| 8 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 9 | She put an end to the nuns ’ little treats and tricks , whilst at the same time allowing a whore to take up residence there . |
| 10 | For what is being implied is nothing short of a paradigm shift wherein students and their intellectual capabilities come to occupy the central ground . |
| 11 | Before now , checks on methane levels around a landfill site had to be collected and interpreted through a computer churning out reams of highly complex figures . |
| 12 | Antennas around the top of the ship pick up the radar signals and a computer works out details such as their frequency , the type of modulation and the intervals between pulses . |
| 13 | So far as the former are concerned , the Act ( as does the Financial Services Act ) assumes that public issues of debentures will be undertaken by the same methods as issues of shares and it provides that a contract to take up debentures , like one to take up shares , may be enforced by an order for specific performance . |
| 14 | But a good substitute was a £500 axle from a one-year-old burnt out JCB digger . |
| 15 | Green and Shepherd ( 1975 ) used the Semantic Differential ( a technique to examine how meaning is assigned to concepts ) to show that deaf children share major dimensions of meaning with hearing children but lack a factor concerning abstract meaning and have an additional one of sensory judgements based on vision and touch . |
| 16 | So take a tip from none other than Graham Greene : " A story has n't room for more than a limited number of created characters . " |
| 17 | Of the latter , one was dedicated to King Henry II of England in a prologue taken almost word for word from Bede 's preface to Ceolwulf at the beginning of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People . |
| 18 | ‘ A crusade to bring back order , stability and discipline to the world . |
| 19 | In the silence we hear a cow tearing up grass by the roots and chewing . |
| 20 | To build up a dictionary to see how words are used . |
| 21 | The Marshall case also serves to show how a case decided in the European Court may become a force to bring about change in national law within member states . |
| 22 | It returned to the main line proper between Waterloo and Bournemouth last weekend with a seat sell out operation in support of ‘ Taw Valley ’ . |
| 23 | A criterion involving only millimetres and centimetres would be a little easier to achieve : 18 per cent obtained the correct order with just the one metre misplaced . |
| 24 | It is no coincidence that hapless Oldham ran into a side containing both Ryan Giggs and Lee Sharpe on the wings , Bryan Robson behind them and McClair in his rightful slot up front . |
| 25 | Bottles flew , strangers punched each other and a tooth flew down Eva 's cleavage . |
| 26 | Flick of a switch opens up Europe |
| 27 | I must also admit to being at something of a loss to explain why Darren Bicknell continues to flit between millionaires ' row and Cannery Row . |
| 28 | When she stole a glance to see how Marc was taking it his lips were white . |
| 29 | The European Community ( EC ) has agreed on a programme to clean up sewage which pollutes rivers and beaches , poisons fish and renders water unfit to drink . |
| 30 | We all know how difficult it can be to arrange for a contractor to carry out repairs to our home . |