Example sentences of "[det] [noun] with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did a boy still at university , with no prospects yet of any sort of career , what did someone like that want with a massive country house ? |
| 2 | And today his former tenant Danny Brady followed up that case with a civil action at Oxford County Court , claiming he 's entitled to thousands of pounds in damages . |
| 3 | Add the flour mixture a little at a time , following each addition with a little treacle and milk until everything is incorporated . |
| 4 | Continue in this way until all the seaweed has been prepared , then cover each piece with a clean sheet of blotting paper and place a couple of newspapers over the top . |
| 5 | Retributive punishment restores the balance by cancelling out this advantage with a commensurate disadvantage . |
| 6 | This link with a particular host is closely associated with chick mimicry . |
| 7 | Students of social policy will come across a number of important examples of bodies of this kind with a nationwide remit . |
| 8 | There 's another story with a happy ending they know , not just from Serafine ; it 's traditional in their family , and in the history books in which the Everards have a mention . |
| 9 | Gerber ( 1975 ) overcomes this difficulty with a constant supply voltage and several forcing resistances in series with each winding . |
| 10 | Screw a 1¼in P-trap to the pop-up body , then connect to the waste pipe — in this case with a reducing coupler |
| 11 | to retain temperature controls but relax those on some products with a short shelf-life ; |
| 12 | As the number of fossils increased , more and more examples of fairly continuous fossil sequences were discovered , allowing paleontologists to analyse the historical development of some groups with a fair degree of confidence . |
| 13 | Clive Allen gave West Ham some hope with a 79th-minute goal , his 14th of the season , but then Aldridge inspired the Merseysiders in a grandstand finish . |
| 14 | Thus an early objective was to carry out some trials to compare this measure with a radiometer reading . |
| 15 | As I explained earlier , I nearly threw my oil pastels away in frustration , but I thought I would give them another try with a different approach . |
| 16 | If none , start this lunch-time with a gentle walk and build up from there , taking exercise at least three times a week . |
| 17 | Another writer with a similar argument is the eighteenth-century cleric Bishop Butler . |
| 18 | However , the only area ( comprising three adjacent sectors ) in this category with a comparable proportion not born in Scotland ( though it is much less isolated ) also showed an excess in the period 1979–83 at ages 5–24 ( 2 cases observed , 0.54 expected ) . |
| 19 | I can not understand how you , who appreciate so much Russian writers of the Nineteenth Century , can combine this appreciation with a complete ignorance of the obshchestvennoe dvizhenie ( liberal movement ) that started in the time of Alexander I , was conspicuously present throughout the century ( despite absolutism ) , and was deliberately played down by the Leninists and Trotskyists for propaganda reasons . |
| 20 | Start from scratch this spring with a thorough clean-out and then treat the pond as though it were a new one , going through the necessary maturation process . |
| 21 | Another way in which pre-existing knowledge is important in discourse interpretation is in the drawing of inferences and we will end this chapter with a brief discussion of some of the research on this very complex topic . |
| 22 | Having described the four best-documented forms that acquired dyslexia can take , we will conclude this chapter with a brief discussion of acquired dysgraphia . |
| 23 | We end this chapter with a brief discussion of some recent innovations in the money market . |
| 24 | We end this chapter with a brief consideration of how to value the entire firm . |
| 25 | He seemed to think he might feature in some pictures with a blonde girl . |
| 26 | The party had become a turning-point in many ways ; now , weeks later , she could look at it with a certain amount of dispassion , view her life over the past few months with a critical eye . |
| 27 | Place 450g ( 1 lb ) hulled strawberries in another saucepan with a little water and simmer until softened . |
| 28 | Brutus starts off this passage with a rhetorical question , and then goes on to explain why he killed Caesar , including all Caesar 's good aspects . |
| 29 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 30 | There 's this bloke with a white coat on and this bag of bread , feeding the birds . |