Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dome also incorporates a built-in groundsheet with a 6″ lip around the door , this will ensure no unwelcome creatures can come wandering into your bivvy during the night . |
| 2 | Very noisy at breeding colonies : double flight-note alternates a rasping note like a Corncrake with a shrill cheep like a domestic chick. 9 ¼in . |
| 3 | When a constable gives directions to a tourist , for example , or rescues a stranded cat from a tree , he is performing the sort of social service that the police are nowadays expected to undertake . |
| 4 | Lady Macbeth 's character undergoes a radical change within a short section of Shakespeare 's play ‘ Macbeth ’ . |
| 5 | Each catalyses a single reaction of a particular chemical , which is recognised by its shape . |
| 6 | In one corner stands a silver-topped trolley with a pair of scalpels , a few scraps of dry skin , and some oddly-curved blunt metal spatulas . |
| 7 | On the left side of the stance stands a gigantic gravestone of a block which has to be crossed . |
| 8 | Obviously , contemporary interest in Leapor owes a great deal to a general shift in eighteenth century studies . |
| 9 | It contains a verbatim account of an historic interview with Life President Dr Hastings Banda . |
| 10 | That nauseating first chapter contains a graphic description of an axe murderer 's modus operandi ( ‘ You have to spell it out clearly , simply to portray just how fucking disgusting the whole thing is ’ ) ; the author weaves the killer into another , quite awesomely sordid narrative involving AIDS and gerbils . |
| 11 | Behind the hut , a small fenced-in yard contains a vast barrel of a creature lost in fierce and dedicated soil exploration . |
| 12 | The unfortunate animal in question is incarcerated in a closed box which also contains a radioactive atom with a 50-50 chance of decaying in the next hour , emitting a y-ray in the process . |
| 13 | However the map produced by the SYMAP/ASPEX package contains a puzzling kink at a certain point on the area axis . |
| 14 | Christine Edzard 's remarkable adaptation of LITTLE DORRIT examined the destructive power of material greed through the higher and lower echelons of an entire society ; her new film develops a similar theme in a similar setting : the London of 1857 , where an obscure clerk ( Derek Jacobi ) moves freely between the world of the poor and that of wealth and privilege , presenting a different face to each . |
| 15 | This is most likely to occur if the patient develops a supportive relationship with a partner , close friend , or voluntary worker . |
| 16 | In Fig. 3.3 , for example , the characteristic is approximated by a straight line with slope T' , so the motor torque is : A motor with a high stiffness develops a large torque for a small displacement from equilibrium . |
| 17 | This technique develops a conceptual model of a process , subjects it to a number of experiments and studies the results with the aim of eventually predicting how the model will behave under certain conditions . |
| 18 | It may be a gradual , one might say glacial , movement of perception , piecing together items of experience which collectively form an awareness that colour places a black person at a disadvantage . |
| 19 | Current legislation is embodied in the Health and Safety at Work Act which places a general duty on an employer to ‘ conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , as far as is practicable , that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby , are not exposed to risks to their health and safety . ’ |
| 20 | It manifests an explicit intent to do so when it places a privative clause in a statute empowering a tribunal . |
| 21 | The data describing the prevalence of smoking illustrates a good example of a cohort effect as older women , those aged 60 and over , have the highest proportions classed as never smoking . |
| 22 | Video Plan 7 illustrates a different approach to a longer sequence ( about 15 minutes ) . |
| 23 | Good on you , I say , it adds a light-hearted touch to a great magazine and we all need a laugh now and again , do n't we ? |
| 24 | This autobiographical slant not only adds a further dimension to an understanding of the novel as a " balance sheet " . |
| 25 | Solitude adds a special quality to a walk and bad weather can do the same — though it does mean that many of us prefer to stay in the lowlands more often . |
| 26 | And BellSouth Corp 's BellSouth Telecommunications is testing the on-premises-only Northern Telecom Ltd Companion system launched in Hong Kong last year and at Hannover last month — which adds a cordless system to a PABX . |
| 27 | Neither side has yet lost a Twickenham final , which adds a little bit of an edge to the occasion . |
| 28 | It adds a characteristic flavour to a range of savoury dishes , from pizza to pork chops . |
| 29 | Even crystal beads , whose actual source is unknown , but whose type of geographic distribution places them with this group , has a similar fall-off with a peak at Sleaford . |
| 30 | Centrophenoxine has a similar history as a tonic preparation for geriatrics , used more on the Continent than in England and America . |