Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 As Sperber and Wilson have shown , there is a variety of reasons why a hearer who was not in a position to process an utterance or block of utterances might want to be presented with a summary of it , and correspondingly , a variety of different sorts of summaries that a speaker might provide .
2 It seems that there are a variety of reasons why an increasing number of European and North American trees are becoming damaged or killed .
3 A special box was used , on to the lid of which could be flashed a variety of patterns whenever a bird approached it .
4 The articles in this book demonstrate in a variety of ways where the bias occurs and how it might be redressed .
5 Sir : France deals with libel in a simple , cheap and civilised way , illustrated by a case in July where a paper investigated corruption among local authorities .
6 ‘ He did n't like rehearsing and I remember a Salome in Munich where the Jokanaan was very uncertain in his part .
7 So I mean , maybe they need a course in theory all the more for that reason , I do n't know , I think a lot of them would have real problems with it .
8 This is a part of Yorkshire where the tradition of personal service thrives
9 Often they were missing altogether and there was just a kind of gap where the timbers were , a sort of hole in the brick .
10 This fact is recorded on a building in Eastgate where a plaque marks the exact point of the Greenwich Meridian .
11 There are more living arthropod species than all other phyla combined ; if diversity is a measure of success then the arthropods are the easy winners .
12 Philip Brooks was director of Holy Trinity church in Philadelphia , erm on , and he was in the Holy Land on Christmas Eve in eighteen sixty five , and he stood in a field outside Bethlehem where the shepherds were supposed to have received the annunciation , and thought of the beginning of O Little Town of Bethlehem .
13 It is common ground that in a majority of cases where an order may be made under section 18 for the payment by the Board to the unassisted party of the costs of appellate , as opposed to first instance , proceedings , the Court of Appeal or this House will be in a position at the conclusion of an appeal on the information then before it to decide under section 18(3) what , if any , order for costs should be made against the assisted party and to form at least a provisional view under section 18(4) ( c ) as to whether it would be ‘ just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case that provision for the costs should be made out of public funds . ’
14 When ‘ untreated ’ timber ( ie , wood which has not been impregnated with preservative ) is built into solid walls , it has no protection from dampness in the wall and it is common for joist-ends to be shielded by a skin of brickwork only a half-a-brick thick ( Fig 31 ) .
15 Dr Scorgie 's late father was a GP in Birmingham where the young Richard grew up , moving to Darlington after his father 's death in 1961 .
16 First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago .
17 A series of new Isle of Man stamps featuring lifeboats was launched with a splash in February when the Douglas lifeboat Sir William Hillary was launched into the harbour with the Lieutenant Governor of the Island , Sir Laurence Jones , aboard .
18 The Laws family ran a bakery in Northgate hence the nickname Teacakes .
19 Whilst a number of considerations may limit the resort to force majeure , there is a sufficiency of means once the will to use them is present .
20 Chamfer the cut edges of pipe to allow easy fitting of the coupling — a few gentle taps with a hammer to chip away the edge is enough .
21 Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier .
22 Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work .
23 It was a gargantuan task : each year a piece of woodland approximately the size of a tennis court was brought into the garden .
24 Then you can put the test on a piece of paper just the questions and I 'm going to give the piece of paper to somebody else to answer .
25 Keith Evans , chairman of the council 's public services committee , attended a ceremony in London where the 1993 Seaside Awards to local authorities were made .
26 The protestant Christian has too quickly jumped to the conclusion that Catholicism regards the Holy Communion service as a work of salvation whereby the priest offers afresh the offering of Christ and pleads for salvation .
27 Then we have a range of measurements where the conflict control systems of animals are not able to work properly ; for example , where the animal wants to do something but can not , or is frustrated .
28 When work is complete on a range of entries only the text of the latest version of a new or changed entry is transferred to the main archive .
29 Giving added sophistication to a range of kitchens where the emphasis is on quality , the turned wood spindles , galleried shelves , a dresser with bevelled glass doors , and the intricate touch of fretwork that can be seen in the photograph , are all features that make these two ranges very special indeed .
30 We rested in a village at lunchtime where the phone lines lay across the side of the road and stretched into a field , and where the mayor welcomed us , his red face glowing underneath a huge fur hood .
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