Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | Our education programme changes attitudes slowly in an environment where selfish values grow even faster . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Reproachfully , Rosa dipped into the deep pot of olives and served a scoop of the waxy jade pebbles on to a dish and set it near Tommaso . |
7 | The proposals include : setting up a system of area judicial debt recovery tribunals by upgrading the debt recovery function of County Courts to the level of District Registries of the High Court ; putting County Court bailiffs on to a results-based salary similar to that of High Court bailiffs ; and putting a £500 ceiling on County Court bad debt claims , with larger claims going to the High Court where better results can be achieved . |
8 | At each stage of the dilution Hahnemann subjected his solutions to a succession of powerful shocks by bringing the vials in which they were contained down hard several times on to a firm surface . |
9 | She dipped her fingers delicately into a dish and , to my astonishment , popped a morsel of food into my mouth instead of into her own . |
10 | Indeed , in some ways the EDC treaty went beyond the ECSC in that Article 38 , which had been included at the insistence of Italy , required the Common Assembly to study ways of establishing federal institutions along with a popularly elected legislature . |
11 | But the almost perverse acceptance of this backwardness began to wilt before the spirit of improvement which gripped much of English society after mid-century , although Sussex gave up its secrets only with a hard battle . |
12 | The speed of transmission varies from 6 minutes down to a matter of seconds per A4 page , depending on the type of fax machine used . |
13 | As cellarer to the abbey it was Brother Oudart 's responsibility to manage these estates together with a staff of some 130 women and 20 men . |
14 | Owing to the curvature of the bridge , the top two notes only of a three- or four-part chord can be sustained . |
15 | The other day I bought the enchanting ASV CD of clarinet Concertos by played by Emma Johnson and read the notes only as an afterthought this morning , having already listened to the disc several times . |
16 | Another possibility for the seminar is that if you want to bring some notes along to a sort of , if you show me a if you dream up hypothetical questions and then put a plan to answer them so that I can skim down it in about a minute or two . |
17 | The Special Advisory Board for the Army Medical Service had laid down as a basis for treatment ‘ a more or less continuous course of mercury by mouth for 1½ to 2 years ’ combined with mercurial ointment rubbed into the skin for 20 to 30 minutes daily over a six-week period . |
18 | In mid-December the settlers were forced to leave one of the houses in after a court ruled against the eviction of the Arab occupants . |
19 | Clifford has now brought a collection of his aphorisms together in a little book entitled ‘ One Hundred Aphorisms ’ . |
20 | ( A table of retail indices together with a table showing the value of the £ at various dates will be found in Appendix E. ) |
21 | This project will investigate all 74 cases together with a series of long term detention case under the 1964 Act . |
22 | Most of the data came from observing 55 case conferences , interviews with the social workers in 25 of the cases together with an analysis of case records . |
23 | The payback on Visa and Access is growing as people try to keep running debts down to a minimum . |
24 | If injury or sickness is sustained and medical attention is received , you should if possible , pay and obtain receipted accounts together with a certificate showing the nature of the injury or sickness . |
25 | I was pleasantly surprised at how light the detector was , for when I have the free time to get out , I like to put as many hours in at a stretch as possible . |
26 | Star ratings , based both on equestrian and accommodation standards , run from a white one where there are well kept horse and ponies only to a purple one which offers farmhouse fare of a high standard , and where riding facilities include an indoor and outdoor riding school . |
27 | His fingers stirred lazily against her skin , and she clamped her teeth together over a gasp . |
28 | Jay trembled and clamped her teeth together on a chill sip of wine , the kiss of alcohol meaningless on the tight-lipped blues . |
29 | Also , the libraries and record offices contain plans of these houses along with a vast amount of pictures of Edinburgh . |
30 | Life With Lyle by Sandy Lyle 's caddie , Dave Musgrove , breaks the mould , being a record , kept by Musgrove , of their times together during a period when Lyle won three events in America , including the US Masters , and three events in Europe , including the World Match Play Championship . |