Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 2 | The process is becoming laborious and a lot of energy is being expended with little result to show for it , progress is very slow . |
| 3 | When she returned — and she would surely return soon — she would need reassuring and a lot of tender loving . |
| 4 | However , the importance of the group is often measured by the number or helplessness of the people dependent on such services and the degree to which they are affected , for example we can all fall ill and a strike of doctors would affect all classes , rich and poor , young and old alike . |
| 5 | Later in the summer the appeal will be made public and a programme of activities is being planned . |
| 6 | The insurance is underwritten by R E Brown & Others Syndicate 702 and a group of syndicates at Lloyd 's . |
| 7 | The director had a knack of giving elegant voice to exactly the thought that was currently in poorish shape at the back of Arthur 's head , and this was infuriating , though to feel resentment at having your skull so stylishly looted seemed small-minded and a blunder of taste . |
| 8 | The door of the tavern banged open and a crowd of men entered with rain sheening their steel helms and the mail shirts under their cloaks . |
| 9 | Investment is expected to remain subdued and a period of destocking is possible as firms respond to lower demand . |
| 10 | The big problem with water butts is that they can overfill if not emptied regularly and the water inside can become stagnant and a source of bacteria . |
| 11 | What one can take from the 1993 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art is a sense of what certain critics consider important and a sense of the direction in which the Whitney is headed . |
| 12 | But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do I mean he 's all crash bang wallop is n't he ? |
| 13 | A weekly competition at DPR awarded 1100 and a bottle of champagne to the AE who got in the largest amount of money over the five days . |
| 14 | The door behind him swung open and a blast of chill air swept into the room . |
| 15 | Simultaneously Lisa felt her heart stop dead and a rush of excitement unleash within her . |
| 16 | Erm recognized those and a couple of other things . |
| 17 | At the prearranged signal the screen went dark and a beam of light shone out from above , spot-lighting the table and the map on the far side of the room . |
| 18 | This obviously represents only a proportion of criminal activity in Britain since a number of crimes remain undetected and a number of offenders are not convicted . |
| 19 | However , not all plants do this and a number of trees which normally produce straight , stress-carrying boughs can be grafted so as to behave like weeping willows . |
| 20 | Apart from the time Gould would have spent stalking , shooting , skinning , and preparing these and a host of other birds , there would have been no possibility of him visiting all these different localities and reaching the west bend of the Murray . |
| 21 | But the problem continued to get worse and a series of surveys in the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s established the main characteristics of these single , homeless people . |
| 22 | ‘ Leave me alone ! ’ she screamed when her efforts to evade him proved useless and a pair of iron hands fastened on her arms . |
| 23 | One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan . |
| 24 | So if that 's that , that 's not bad , so yeah , so , so side three B now , so if we can get two and a half of three tapes done , cos then I can change the batteries and I get to keep , get a free pizza which is n't a bad thing |
| 25 | The confrontation became heated and a force of Gardai came on the scene . |
| 26 | They had no sooner done so , than the front door of the house burst open and a flood of blanket wrapped kids began to pour out . |
| 27 | The mechanisms to achieve this and an assessment of the errors involved are documented , together with an explanation of new and promising possibilities to relate polling districts and enumeration districts that can exploit the increased use of postcodes by the 1991 census . |
| 28 | A dose of 20 per cent less than the LD 50 will kill few and a dose of 20 per cent more will kill over 90 per cent ’ . |
| 29 | Glenys Sowonola is the Managing Director of Glennick Ledger Controls Ltd and a Fellow of the Institute . |
| 30 | The patio door stood open and a flurry of vanilla-scented air blew in from the laburnums . |