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

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1 A good hash function will distribute values uniformly throughout a waiting array ( used for access ) called the hash table .
2 Indeed , the JMU will automatically consider adding an investment business inspection on to an audit monitoring visit to an authorised firm .
3 ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case .
4 Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood .
5 But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist ; sometimes whopping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold .
6 But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist , sometimes whooping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . ’
7 Since I am perfectly fit myself I had to consider Miller 's tribulation with some care , for I am here putting a foot on to an unknown terrain — always an exhilarating experience for a writer .
8 Our education programme changes attitudes slowly in an environment where selfish values grow even faster .
9 A dedication to Cautes indicates the presence somewhere of a Mithraeum .
10 At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies .
11 As Ilse happily slipped out of her thin white overall , Ingrid noticed the audience tossing money on to a plate which was being passed around .
12 He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth .
13 And at seven thirty , Karen found herself sipping sherry in a borrowed frock and shaking fingers politely with a lawyer and his wife , whom she disliked quite intensely after fifty seconds .
14 The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner .
15 The bird ties it by holding a strip on to a branch with one foot and then , using its beak , passing the end round the branch , threading it through one of the turns and pulling it tight .
16 It 's no good doing the most lovely building right down a drive where no-one can see it , so it 's part of the environment for all of us .
17 Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper 's .
18 For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask .
19 Nina turned the fragments of food on her plate with all the delicacy of an archaeologist lifting a shard on to a trowel .
20 But good bloodily triumphs at the end of a film made by James Marcus rather like a Warner Brothers gangster picture set incongruously in Soho and gone rather badly off-key .
21 George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions .
22 She was just bending over to pat powder on to a young actress 's face when she heard the door open behind her and a strange tingle of apprehension prickled the back of her neck .
23 The horse can move its lower jaw from side to side when eating , and the jaw muscles drag the lower teeth inward in a grinding motion .
24 The Metro does , however , have a few little problems ; the ghastly coloured light with which the dash is illuminated , a sort of blood-shot red ; some quite nasty , outdated body styling which involves add-on , red-striped plastic strips down the sides and a central locking system which emitted a noise rather like a very small horse coughing .
25 But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour .
26 There is nothing in the Children Act 1989 which provides for the court to tack any direction on to a care order and I have to say that , in my judgment , the addition of a direction of any sort to a care order is a fetter on the local authority plans , authority and responsibility .
27 Pin the tracing on to a wall .
28 At the same time he began to see Frances secretly at an address in South Kensington in central London .
29 BIGGLES pilot Anthony West coolly landed his vintage Tiger Moth biplane right outside a secluded country pub — and swaggered in for a pint .
30 But Fael-Inis was concentrating on spreading honey on to a wedge of bread , and seemed not to notice .
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