Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This linguistic strategy would not work if the term Americans automatically conjured up a picture of women . |
| 2 | Citizen Kane curiously go down a treat more in the Midlands than the North though 48 bookings nationally fill this year 's diary . |
| 3 | Grandson Richard slowly reached out a hand and said : ‘ Whoomp ? ’ |
| 4 | The packaging and product name usually make up a hefty part of that cost . |
| 5 | On July 3 the security forces successfully carried out a daring mission to remove wounded soldiers from the Fort in Jaffna town , under siege since mid-June . |
| 6 | It may even have been the case — a suggestion emanating , admittedly , from a piece of post-war testimony — that the Reich Propaganda Ministry deliberately started off a rumour that the Führer , on discovering what was taking place ( in an ‘ action ’ which , in reality , he himself had authorized in writing ) , had given the order to halt it immediately . |
| 7 | The 499 ton salvage tug then sent out a Mayday distress call to the effect that she was on fire and sinking . |
| 8 | Last night police virtually ruled out a suggestion that the intruders were poachers . |
| 9 | By contrast , a curriculum for young people with disabilities or learning difficulties often centres around a ‘ preparation for adulthood ’ as if this constitutes a recognisable area of study . |
| 10 | Continental basins generally seem to be long-lived features with a subsidence history often extending over a period of 100 Ma or more . |
| 11 | JOHN Major 's Cabinet colleagues yesterday ruled out a leadership challenge this side of the general election , as the Prime Minister 's stock remains at rock bottom in new opinion polls . |
| 12 | Pest Control Baldock recently carried out a large bubble fumigation job in Peterborough , and came out smelling of roses . |
| 13 | Seven years after losing her sight Philippa now holds down a full-time job . |
| 14 | Mentioning leg ulcers often conjures up a picture of old ladies with large , offensive , discharging ulcers and nurses condemned to daily visits to change unpleasant dressings . |
| 15 | An internal government report recently pointed out a number of deficiencies in the existing safety procedures . |
| 16 | The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape . |
| 17 | When in August 1988 the overstretched Health Authority belatedly sent out a questionnaire enquiring about symptoms that might have been suffered as a result of drinking the water , one went to 450 ‘ occupants ’ of a graveyard in St Tudy , which happened to have a tap in one corner . |
| 18 | An advertising agency normally takes over a client 's advertising for a fee , or for a percentage of the amount of money the client spends on television time or space in newspapers , magazines or poster sites . |
| 19 | One travel company alone brings in a coach tour from the Midlands every fortnight . |
| 20 | The Science and Technology Directorate recently set up a science and technology committee to replace the Cefic R&D committee . |
| 21 | The Bulgarian Communist Party politburo yesterday set up a top-level investigation into corruption under the deposed leader , Mr Todor Zhivkov , and fired his son as head of a party department . |
| 22 | The West African English language press rapidly took on a more militant and nationalist tone , particularly in Lagos , Nigeria , thanks to John Payne Jackson . |