Example sentences of "a [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | I 'll go for a tied up cat . |
4 | I 'm a tied up cat . |
5 | I 've got a tied up cat . |
6 | I 've got a tied up cat here . |
7 | I said I thought he was a right in fact I 've never seen Sally like it before I said I felt quite really |
8 | Glazing is the laying of transparent colour over a dry under layer to create special and/or colour effects . |
9 | Do you ever cheat and put a little of cornflour |
10 | But you 've got to pay a little of money . |
11 | 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 |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | When they got to St-Jean it was only a little past midnight and the cafes were still open . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 ’ . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The plane with 20 passengers on board was caught in a strong down draught but managed to touch down safely ten metres short of the runway . |
23 | I was sitting there as tense as a coiled up spring , waiting for the wings to touch and all of us to hurtle to the ground in a ball of fire . |
24 | I assess the annual mileage as six thousand which then gives a total for running costs of five hundred and sixty eight pounds eighty pence . |
25 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |
26 | Michael Smith was found slumped over the wheel of his blood-spattered Mercedes with a torn up photograph of Andria Horton on the seat beside him . |
27 | We found the two principal ports , Stromness and Kirkwall fairly quiet still , although things in Scapa Flow were hotting up , with the site of the new oil terminal on the little island of Flotta a churned up mass of mud and peat mountains , raped by the monstrous earth moving machines and disfigured by half-completed structures of rusty steel plates and girders . |
28 | In mediaeval times cider was given to sailors bound on long voyages partly as a palliative for scurvy . |
29 | He had gained a half-Blue for athletics at Cambridge , was a member of the MCC and played tennis regularly at Hurlingham until stricken by illness . |
30 | I was such a goody-goody at school it was unbelievable that I was pregnant . |