Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 2 | Stars could not shine were it not for particles — called neutrinos — that are so insubstantial that they have no mass at all and can travel right through a solid object like the Earth as if it simply did not exist . |
| 3 | When planners put forward proposals to build a road right through a beautiful stretch of country or to quarry an unspoiled area of a national park , The Ramblers ' Association puts up strong opposition . |
| 4 | This was a nazi form of greeting that had been popularized by P.J. Ridout of the IFL in 1936 , presumably as a conscious pun on his own initials . |
| 5 | Britain began to slip badly as a competitive producer of films , and the national market was increasingly ceded to imports from France and America . |
| 6 | The proper approach to development lies , no doubt , somewhere between a slavish attachment to all things foreign and an atavistic distaste for any type of change . |
| 7 | It is known locally as a popular place for children to play . |
| 8 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 9 | For instance , observer bias would have occurred in our study if the endoscopist has looked more intensely for a hiatal hernia after noting that oesophagitis was present . |
| 10 | Diana was teased mercilessly about a framed photograph of Prince Charles , taken at his Investiture in 1969 , which hung in her school dormitory . |
| 11 | She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic . |
| 12 | This was already being discussed widely as a possible motive for the action that Orkney Islands Council had taken . |
| 13 | Then , in 1954 , as the car passed under what seemed a mediaeval or Renaissance courtyard gate there was Frederica , brooding grimly about a personal failure in a dreamed , unreal competition . |
| 14 | For instance , he observed expansions of English foreign trade on about a 50-year cycle from the 1790s to 1810 , from 1842 to 1873 , and from 1893 to 1914 , each separated by periods of consolidation . |
| 15 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 16 | In the hippy era images filtered weakly through a hairy sea of tangled tresses . |
| 17 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |
| 18 | Speedy 's lay-off Thomson collides the Forest man Gemmell and the whistle has gone eventually for a free kick to Forest . |
| 19 | The real balance effect may be represented diagrammatically as a rightward shift in the IS curve . |
| 20 | She was doing all right as a nursing orderly in a geriatric hospital — one of her favourite ‘ legitimate ’ jobs as it gave her easy access to sleeping pills and downers . |
| 21 | A provision for the payment of a salary to a partner , effectively as a preferential share of profits . |
| 22 | It is extremely difficult for workers in Community Mental Health Centres to focus their efforts effectively for a dispersed community of people with long-term problems if their work is constantly being interrupted by crises and emergency work . |
| 23 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 24 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 25 | I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’ |
| 26 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 27 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 28 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 29 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 30 | Finally they reached home and tried to put the kettle on for a welcome cup of tea — to discover their water had been cut off . |