Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gun battles between rival gangs of inmates had left 18 prisoners dead following an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Olivero Chavez Araujo , a self-styled drug baron serving an eight-year sentence for drug trafficking . |
| 2 | Control individuals show weak staining in the apical region of the enterocytes thereby showing an uptake of PT-gliadin . |
| 3 | Experience of being in the pew naturally plays an important part in forming perceptions of how to plan and conduct worship , and the place of music within it . |
| 4 | It was also a shock to discover that their father 's investments only yielded an income of some £190 per annum net , considerably less than Warnie ( desperate to leave the Army and live on his pension ) had been hoping . |
| 5 | As mentioned above , income support only has an ordinary , and not a long-term rate . |
| 6 | The story basically surrounds an ambitious clerk , and his strange home life , and private life , and work life basically . |
| 7 | Higher spending need not of course necessarily imply an improvement in the standard of health care provided . |
| 8 | The Economist sensibly saw an electricity tax as a way of resolving this problem , but , with the Conservative opposition ready to taunt the Government with unfairly raising prices , the prospects of a rational price policy were not good . |
| 9 | Even where the contract merely defines an express undertaking as a warranty , there will normally be a related exclusion of liability . |
| 10 | In the next throne along lounged an elegant young man — summer business suit , Cal tan , thick , unlayered rug : I took him for an actor . |
| 11 | Magistrate Pamela Long made an order under the Children 's and Young Persons ' Act banning publication of details which might lead to the baby 's identity . |
| 12 | An unusual fairy godmother — the Treasury — came to the rescue with a ¼ p.c. reduction in betting duty which enabled both sides to get something out of the negotiations and allowed the Home Secretary to please everyone , something which home secretaries rarely find an opportunity to do . |
| 13 | Such formulae only give an indication . |
| 14 | Robyn could barely think , let alone string coherent words together to form an answer . |
| 15 | The analysis gives a maximum condition so generating an envelope of certainty ( see Figure 5.12 ) . |
| 16 | Political violence alone claims an average of 10 lives a day . |
| 17 | As You Like It is also very British — it mixes ages and accents and acting styles enough to suggest an island-full of people falling in and out of love , or at least bumping into each other . |
| 18 | Tony Bailey , when he was talking just now , talked in terms of schools perhaps having an element of democracy within them . |
| 19 | Mummy only wanted an excuse to get at me anyway . ’ |
| 20 | As young people were being encouraged , if not forced , to raise the stakes of involvement , by the pressures of the wars , brutal police , terrorist causes and other assorted hostilities , violence suddenly became an integral part of the youth movement as the feeling of the impending apocalypse heightened . |
| 21 | He had been educated at Eton College so had an excellent command of English . |
| 22 | Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw , and they 're far cheaper . |
| 23 | Of course , my lord Moray already had an unmarried sister … ! |
| 24 | Sue normally drives an estate car but found plenty of room in the Volvo 460 — just as well with all three children home for half-term . |
| 25 | And I always feel it 's a reverse situation , you know , about Stanley Morrison saying he would prefer to pay Monotype not to put an ad in , erm to pay The Times not to put an ad for Monotype . |
| 26 | Similarly , the idea of time is not extracted from any observation of actual coexistence and succession ; on the contrary , any significant references to coexistence and succession already presuppose an idea of time . |
| 27 | The judge refused to grant an injunction , and said it was for the valuer to decide whether to proceed or not , and that the president of the RICS owed no duty to the parties not to make an appointment . |
| 28 | Biosensors already provide an attractive means of biochemical measurement . |
| 29 | As to my choice of hardware , I cheated a bit : for my Koi pond already contained an admirable in-pool Oase filter , powered by a seemingly indestructible stainless steel-bodied pump by the same manufacturer . |
| 30 | A determined search finally yielded an old lady in the former Grand Hotel , now a residential and nursing home on the front . |