Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see the novelist at the stem rail of a cross-Channel ferry , throwing bits of gristle from his sandwich to the hovering gulls . |
| 2 | Mix the oil , soy sauce , ginger and five spice powder in a shallow dish . |
| 3 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |
| 4 | In order to make use of the wood , the trust has revived some of the old woodland skills in an innovative way . |
| 5 | The Company shall not pay the purchase money to a Defaulting Member until he shall in respect of the shares being the subject of the Compulsory Sale Notice have delivered his share certificates or a suitable indemnity and the necessary transfers to the Company . |
| 6 | Rather ignominiously , it was used as part payment of a bad debt to a coachbuilder , Robert Jeffrey of Grays Inn Road , with whom it remained neglected and almost forgotten until purchased by Madame Tussaud in 1842 for the princely sum of £52 . |
| 7 | This is a practical knitting course with a minimal amount of theory . |
| 8 | Also , in May this year , British Rail submitted to the Secretary of State for his approval route proposals for a high-speed link from the channel tunnel to central London and a comparative analysis of other routes . |
| 9 | Then I saw a gaggle of youths arriving with guitar cases for a recording session , and I changed my mind . |
| 10 | For a social worker negotiating admission to a residential home for a dementia sufferer , it is particularly important to work out a contract , using a relative or friend if necessary to sign the contract and become the advocate on behalf of the client . |
| 11 | And it 's got ten funtime activities like a spinning teddy , clicking dog and musical wheel to help an older baby 's eye to hand co-ordination . |
| 12 | He gave the example of a two-year Community Skills course in a local college that drew its recruits from the special schools . |
| 13 | ‘ We have contingency plans for a major incident like this but when it happens it is very difficult to cope . |
| 14 | Even so , Tory MPs have been put on standby for a three-line whip on Thursday seen by some as contingency plans for a possible defeat tomorrow . |
| 15 | The agreement followed a spate of oil spills since the March 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster [ see p. 36541 ] which included three large oil spills in US waters in June 1989 : ( i ) on June 23 , 650,000 gallons of fuel oil were spilt into Narragansett Bay off Rhode Island by a Liberian-registered tanker , World Prodigy , after it struck a reef ; ( ii ) on June 24 a Uruguayan tanker , Presidente Rivera , spilled 800,000 gallons of industrial heating oil after hitting a rock in the Delaware River , Delaware ; and ( iii ) also on June 24 a tow-barge spilled 250,000 gallons of light crude oil in Galveston Bay , Texas , after a collision with a Panamanian cargo ship . |
| 16 | Scottish Television have appointed Blair Jenkins to a new post of Head of Regional Broadcasting . |
| 17 | Scottish Television have appointed Blair Jenkins to a new post of Head of Regional Broadcasting . |
| 18 | A Victor V486MX mini-tower has just arrived at Lyndhurst West for a long-term test . |
| 19 | It will also help teach your child computer interaction at an early age . |
| 20 | ‘ Germans shit on a little ledge and look at it for hours before flushing , ’ says Lady De Marr . |
| 21 | Area Child Protection Committees ( ACPCs ) , based upon the boundaries of local authorities , are intended to provide a forum for developing , monitoring and reviewing child protection policies in a particular locality . |
| 22 | Clearly USL will argue that CSRG staff gave themselves permission to commercialise the system and will doubtless note a violation of the university 's established code of ethics which requires university personnel with a financial interest in a university decision to disqualify themselves . |
| 23 | That is a scale of acidity and alkalinity based on 14 times the logarithm of the ratio of disassociated hydrogen ions in an aqueous solution measured in grams per litre . |
| 24 | Another problem is the set-up of PCR reactions in a convenient format with as little manual interference as possible . |
| 25 | It can not be the headquarters building of a normal fort and its association with a building which has all the appearances of a normal villa merely emphasizes the difficulties of interpretation ; but for the inscription a villa it would be . |
| 26 | B Ltd would then pay up a dividend outside a group income election as a franked payment to A Ltd . |
| 27 | Biarritz fullback Serge Blanco scythes a path through the Toulon defence during a faultless display in his first and last Championship final . |
| 28 | W , writes from : YOU recently published an Inspector Morse story about a nine year old Metro car which took only unleaded petrol . |
| 29 | An insider at Zenith noted that the company ‘ is really a sitting duck target , with highly visible personal computer products in a relentless price war , which is also an acquired division with a different brand name that is not French . ’ |
| 30 | They are split between either finding no relationship , or in finding support for the Samuelson hypothesis of a negative relationship between price volatility and maturity . |