Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After going 2–0 up in 32 minutes through a goal by Lesley Hobley and a penalty by Denise Shorney , Hightown reduced the deficit a minute before the interval when Jackie Crook scored from the penalty spot . |
| 2 | Specialising in engineering design relating to existing offshore installations , the company 's manpower levels reached over 500 personnel on a number of design projects . |
| 3 | THE superconducting transition temperature , T c , defines the point at which the free energies of the superconducting and normal states of a material become equal . |
| 4 | They are paid for remaining open after normal hours on a rota basis and sums are paid to keep chemists open in remote areas . |
| 5 | The lower notes of a melody are usually placed at points of emotive decline . |
| 6 | It is one of the remarkable features of the Bible that it contains enough to occupy the greatest intellects for a lifetime , and yet the simplest soul can read and understand , and in reading with an obedient heart find God himself . |
| 7 | Hox-B2 response to RA. g-i , Normal staining patterns of a Hox-B2/lacZ transgene which is primarily expressed in r4 and neural crest migrating into the second branchial arch . |
| 8 | total sponsorships of a vehicle ( normally for an initial period of 3 years ) |
| 9 | Textbooks catering for the upsurge in legal education in the 1950s and 1960s sought to capture in print the mysterious unwritten secrets of a constitution which had emerged into the democratic world without appearing to have changed at all . |
| 10 | The peasant , for instance , who wishes to sell his avocados or pots in the local market may need a licence to do so , something that is outside the realm of the usual activities of a peasant , especially an illiterate . |
| 11 | ‘ The power to create and manipulate culture as a means or controlling others is well entrenched in the social , Economic and political institutions of a society but it is also continually resisted by opposing cultural forms ’ . |
| 12 | Just hours after Mercury cut phone bills for domestic and small business customers , BT declared a freeze on the cost of all UK and international direct-dialled calls for a year . |
| 13 | Britain 's the only major horse racing nation which can not hold normal meetings on a Sunday … betting at a racecourse on the Sabbath is forbidden . |
| 14 | A man of seventy-five dies of a heart condition and inside four days his son is shot dead . |
| 15 | The seed corn left to accompany the dead could sprout again — as a boy , he had heard reports of successful experiments on damp rags in the dark — the coins for the ferryman , fallen among the collapsed lips and tongueless jawbones of the discovered dead , could be buffed and brightened until the curls in the hair of Demeter , caught up in rich ropes under a garland of corn floating with ribbons , gleamed glossily again , and the Cupid on Riba 's emblematic ship , facing out to sea with his drawn bow over the whorl of the prow , stood out in silver against the duller ground . |
| 16 | As the war proceeded , Iraq attempted to do the same to Iran 's terminals and bring Iranian exports to a halt . |
| 17 | The collapse of the shogunate and the restoration of the Meiji throne was but one effect , from which a myriad of others flowed : the revival of Japanese nationalism and her imperial designs , the invasion of China , the florid plans for a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere , the bombast and cruelty of the Pacific War , the creation in America of the atomic bomb , its eventual use over the two great cities of Kyushu , and Japan 's consequent defeat , post-war disgrace , ruin and decay . |
| 18 | So far I have described a closed set of elements and terms which relate specific entities to a reference point — a set which is also determined by use and context . |
| 19 | Elizabeth , or Bess , ‘ was singular in her childhood ’ : anecdotes depict her giving scarce pennies to a beggar and rescuing a kitten . |
| 20 | The most important vowel is set to two or more tied notes in a phrase designed to increase the lyrical expression ( see Example 47 , above ) . |
| 21 | However , aspiring unsigned acts with a reputation to make are n't likely to be in a position to sweeten up the hordes of sceptical scribes in the West End of London who spend their days loafing from one free lunch to the next . |
| 22 | Within the year there was money made available for projects which could take the broad skills of a science like genetic manipulation and give them a saleable medical application . |
| 23 | Qualified engineering and software support staff should be available so that a suitable person can attend the OUP site , as necessary , within eight hours of a call for help . |
| 24 | Becky Blandford , who 's still seriously ill more than forty eight hours after a hunting accident . |
| 25 | ‘ Argentines do n't feed or water their horses eight hours before a match . |
| 26 | Moffatt , whose long lay-off was due to a facial injury , made it eight wins in a row ( five inside the distance ) by forcing Dhalie into retirement at the end of the fourth round with a damaged shoulder . |
| 27 | IN framing controversial proposals for a US energy tax , President Clinton gave a new lease of life to the British thermal unit , which the UK has abandoned in favour the joule based on the metric standards adopted in Europe . |
| 28 | interfaces be developed so that the range of spatial operations in a system can be organized into standardized functions or tasks , and so that the spatial database can be visualized . |
| 29 | He signed for Palace on 8 March 1962 and progressed through the Junior ranks for a couple of seasons . |
| 30 | The army recognises that shoe-horning young junior ranks into a place used to dealing with qualified RAF technicians could be a problem . |