Example sentences of "a [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the mid-1970s Cramlington looked to be succeeding in its industrial and environmental modernization , which simultaneously resolved the ‘ post coal ’ problems of South East Northumberland and provided a pleasant over spill mechanism for reducing residential densities in the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 2 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |
| 3 | Even Craig Cwm Trwsgl in Cwm Pennant , home of the classic Exterminating Angel , has received some attention with Lloyd-Jones and Clive Stephenson adding Blinded By The Light , E4 5b , 6a , to the crag ; this route being a counter-diagonal to Day Of Reckoning . |
| 4 | I 'll go for a tied up cat . |
| 5 | I 'm a tied up cat . |
| 6 | I 've got a tied up cat . |
| 7 | I 've got a tied up cat here . |
| 8 | I became a wearer of double-breasted suits , a leaner on bars , a discusser of interest rates . |
| 9 | I said I thought he was a right in fact I 've never seen Sally like it before I said I felt quite really |
| 10 | but we have shaved the bollocks of a bloke in T A , he was a right like Tintin , so we , we pinned him and shaved his bollocks and then put after shave over it . |
| 11 | Glazing is the laying of transparent colour over a dry under layer to create special and/or colour effects . |
| 12 | Do you ever cheat and put a little of cornflour |
| 13 | But you 've got to pay a little of money . |
| 14 | so , with the best will in the world it 's going to be six months so let's so we need a little of breathing space |
| 15 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 16 | And though , once she hit her formidable histrionic stride , it was possible to feel that a little of Bette Davis went a long way , her excesses were surely preferable to the homogenised blandness of those mass-produced Hollywood sirens of whom a lot went a very little way indeed . |
| 17 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |
| 18 | Well it is , it is , yeah , it 's a , there 's a little of flesh but nothing like you know it was when his foot got like that do you see what I mean ? |
| 19 | When they got to St-Jean it was only a little past midnight and the cafes were still open . |
| 20 | Then , a little past noon , the doctor took his hat , his pistols and a sword , put the map in his pocket , and walked off quickly through the trees . |
| 21 | Then the minister deigned to appear and defended himself by saying he had once come out to a stranger who called , but the man proved to be ‘ a little worth person ’ . |
| 22 | Yet language is too important to be left either to amateurs who know British education but know only a little about language , or to professionals who know much about language but have little close contact with British education . |
| 23 | A little outside Saint-Jean to the north-east , in fact , near the village of Ostabat , three of the main pilgrim routes across France met up , to advance as one towards the mountain passes , so that through Saint-Jean there went the pilgrims who had travelled from Paris , from Vézelay in Burgundy , and from Le Puy and Conques further to the south ; only those who had come through Provence took a different route into Spain , over the Col du Somport . |
| 24 | For Esteban Vicente , still busy at work in his Bridgehampton studio as he enters his ninth decade , the sweet blarings of Fame 's trumpet have always had more than a little in common with the songs of the sirens . |
| 25 | So even if they made a little , if they 've got the glass cutter , made a little round hole then reached , still could n't get the window open they 'd be forced to break the whole lot and make more noise . |
| 26 | well she did have one it , she 's had an operation , but er , I , she manages to go to the post on a Sunday afternoon , she must write to her sister in Australia , which makes a little round trip , a bit of exercise that 's what you ought to do more of |
| 27 | In third place Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , who had been leading overnight at two under slipped to a 75 on Sunday to finish two over par , his early rounds had been 70 and 70 . |
| 28 | This new wall consists of a 75 × 50″ framework , with the uprights set at 406mm centres , to suit 1220 × 2440mm plasterboard . |
| 29 | Watts 's challenge ended when he triple-bogeyed the 3rd and 4th holes en route to a 75 after lunch , while Pullan struggled to a 74 . |
| 30 | Other top scorers included a 75 by John McIlwaine from Carrickfergus and a 76 by Mark Windebank of Portstewart . |