Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 2 | Silas parked the minibus near a gap where a path led into the gloom , and as they trod the leaf-mould their steps made no sound . |
| 3 | By solving standard problems , performing standard experiments and eventually by doing a piece of research under a supervisor already a skilled practitioner within the paradigm , an aspiring scientist becomes acquainted with the methods , the techniques and the standards of that paradigm . |
| 4 | That wound had been inflicted with an instrument with a blade perhaps an inch wide . |
| 5 | Over the years , as a young detective he had lost weight at a time when a lot of men put it on , and now looked thin and wiry , reproducing in himself , as he half knew , the family look . |
| 6 | When he and others advocated extra divisions in the Edwardian period they could not have foreseen that the formation of a Third Division in 1920 would create an extra demand for players of talent at a time when a large part of the male population had been wiped out in a world war . |
| 7 | Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife . |
| 8 | It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month . |
| 9 | They escaped the scene of a massacre just a week ago , and have used the time since to come to terms with their ordeal . |
| 10 | While less than a mile away , as the moon came out again from behind clouds , it shone through a window into a cage where an old eagle perched and its light fell across her head and one of her wings . |
| 11 | Ashley swerved towards it , but as she ran the ambulance came to a halt beside a pad where a helicopter waited , a stretcher was ferried aboard and the helicopter rose up into the sky . |
| 12 | Fifty thousand pounds extra for the voluntary sector at a time when a recession , when so called but completely un care in the community is putting a tremendous burden of responsibility both on the voluntary sector and on we know what a good job the voluntary sector do in this city thousand pounds is a small proportion of the money that they are actually requesting from us . |
| 13 | For myself , I can see no relevant distinction between a case where a statute has conferred such final and conclusive jurisdiction and the case where the common law has for 300 years recognised that the visitor 's decision on questions of fact and law are final and conclusive and are not to be reviewed by the courts . |
| 14 | It is in these situations , particularly following a public inquiry into a case where a child has died , that poor co-operation tends to be most exposed . |
| 15 | In the course of the arguments before us it was suggested that a construction of section 8 of the Act of 1969 which denies a 16- or 17-year-old girl an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , but leaves it open to her parents to consent to such treatment , could in theory lead to a case where a pregnant 16-year-old refuses an abortion , but her parents consent to her pregnancy being terminated . |
| 16 | A leading commentator on the criminal law , Professor J. C. Smith , has drawn attention to a situation where a farmer shoots dead an alsatian dog . |
| 17 | AN ANTI-RACIST rally was being planned for later today following a night of unrest outside a hospital where an Asian teenager is fighting for his life . |
| 18 | Press criticism inspired by certain currents within the FLN meanwhile accused the government of having played " Russian roulette " with the country 's future by allowing the elections to take place at a time when an Islamist win likely . |
| 19 | it 's a big , in this town it 's kept quiet , it happened on Monday night of course there 's gon na be a bloody big shake up in Lancashire police , it happened in this town there er , er , er a robbery at a bungalow where an old lady were |
| 20 | She stood back and peeled off the shirt with a nonchalance only a trifle marred when a button caught in her hair . |
| 21 | This was quite an achievement for an organisation only a few months old . |
| 22 | CARPET fitter Dennis Stoller was facing ruin last night after a blunder over a £9.41 cheque . |
| 23 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 24 | ‘ Who would have believed that Haagen-Dazs could build a market for a product retailing at just under £3 per tub with a name that meant nothing , with understated quirky packaging in a country where a major recession was started to bite ? |
| 25 | For an application of the defence in a case where a claimant , in order to make good his claim , was obliged to assert his own fraudulent purpose I was referred to Palaniappa Chettiar v. Arunasalam Chettiar [ 1962 ] A.C. 294 . |
| 26 | He saw that if an electron could occupy any orbit round a nucleus then a spiralling collapse was inevitable . |
| 27 | One hundred and thirty pounds was a lot of money in a country where an average wage was three pounds a month . |
| 28 | He paused , as if gathering breath for an ascent up a steep mountainside . |
| 29 | The irrigation schemes in the Sudan , including the Gezira project , provide an example of a case where a poor response from tenant farmers , for a variety of reasons , has consistently dogged the major rehabilitation projects financed by the World Bank and other donors in the early 1980s . |
| 30 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |