Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [conj] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , there 's Sandra After Dark , a cable show that offers a twist on the chat format by inviting guests to drop by , take a few drinks from the topless waitresses , and talk casually , with the kind of natural interruptions that occur at a party . |
| 2 | Thus it is plausible to view science as an enormous cluster of innovations , of which the most successful are diffused by means of a contagion process that produces a logistic curve in all facets of scientific activity . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If a cop comes and finds the car , with me in it , I would n't know what to do . ’ |
| 4 | Of course we must say what that means by describing how a community adopts or betrays a principle , and this will be part of constructing our conception of law as integrity . |
| 5 | Going into the studio — you have a record deal that says the record company pays for that — but has that contract been examined ? |
| 6 | This however is not due to a desire to rock'n'roll but represents an instinctive response to signals interpreted by their mind configuration as a call to food , sex or perhaps just good arachnid company . |
| 7 | An intersection does not indicate that a clash occurs but establishes the only region of uncertainty in which all possible clashes could occur . |
| 8 | Staples embrace baked potatoes , giant Yorkshires , Welsh rarebit , curry and salads ; specials one lunchtime last week included tagliatelle , steak and kidney pie and a fish dish that eludes the memory . |
| 9 | Where a person borrows or enters a contract ( agreement ) involving some future form of payment , this will invariably be expressed in money terms . |
| 10 | Or rather it will be if the health-care proposals come with a price tag that requires the taxpayer to finance an extra $100 billion or so of government spending a year . |
| 11 | A new colour form creates no problems , but when a mutation occurs that alters the anatomy of the cat in some way , there is often a heated debate as to whether the new variant should be encouraged or allowed to die out . |
| 12 | When a pupil borrows or returns a book , the bar-code reader is drawn across the bar-code on the book or item and across the pupil 's bar-coded library ticket . |
| 13 | Bore a shallow recess with the winged bit and , using the central pilot hole as a guide , drill the workpiece to take a steel screw that matches the one on the back of the nameplate . |
| 14 | A messenger arrives and announces a Viking attack on a nearby monastery ! |
| 15 | A PEOPLE campaign that reveals the desperate queue for transplants — and why it is happening |
| 16 | The vertical bar is a pipe command that passes the output of one command to another so the ECHO . |
| 17 | This is achieved with six new applications-specific circuits , one of which is a bus switch that converts the 32-bit data bus of local peripherals designed for 68040 systems to the 88110 's 64-bit system bus . |
| 18 | At the world 's main airports a plane arrives or departs every 30 seconds . |
| 19 | 3 The attacker 's body weight drives him head-on into a claw strike that covers the whole area of the face . |
| 20 | This is a prestige train that covers the 500 km ( 312 miles ) in three hours . |
| 21 | If a prisoner has or knows the material which reaches the department , that is sufficient . |
| 22 | The only exception to this is if the child has a disease process that has a short-term prognosis . |
| 23 | ‘ Macro ’ , a lens setting that enables the shooting of small subjects ( including colour transparencies ) at very close range , is also to be found on most camcorders . |
| 24 | It 's implicit from their staging that the band knows they 're nothing to look at , and they were smart enough to create a slide show that transfixes the audience . |
| 25 | Many ground-nesting birds employ a distraction display that draws an approaching predator away from the nest-site where vulnerable eggs or chicks are situated . |
| 26 | Certainly , such an idea combines and co-ordinates the value of the group and the value of reminiscence in a single setting . |