Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these commentators Wilde represents both a cultural ‘ decay ’ and a resurrection of ‘ pagan viciousness ’ and ‘ primal errors ’ ( pp. 98 , 134 ) . |
| 2 | Peggy made quite a good joke . |
| 3 | Germany receives about a quarter of Russia 's annual gas exports of about 100 billion cubic metres . |
| 4 | He recognized that the manyattas were ‘ an indigenous school ’ , an integral part of the process whereby a Masai became distinctively a Masai , and recommended that their character-building qualities be respected and adapted . |
| 5 | Unlike her major competitors , however , Germany lacked both a well-developed economic hinterland for agricultural and commercial support , and helpful overseas colonies . |
| 6 | ‘ Ian looks quite a good keeper all-round . |
| 7 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 8 | So is Viasa , a Venezuelan airline in which Iberia has both a 45% stake and management control . |
| 9 | Already reeling from the loss of skipper Jonathan Davies , Griffiths was rocked by the news that Kevin Ellis has only a 50–50 chance of being fit . |
| 10 | Ellis found only a moderate rate ( about 4 per cent ) of frank insanity among his subjects ; a figure , incidentally , that included some examples of brain disease . |
| 11 | Unlike industry rivals such as Guinness , Highland has only a relatively small export business — about a third of its sales . |
| 12 | Should the discussion stray just once from generic to specific advice , however casually ( ‘ the Borsetshire Union has quite a good deal on offer at the moment ’ ) , investment business has been carried out . |
| 13 | Howe still needs a goalkeeper on loan because David Seaman has only a slender chance of returning on Saturday and his two deputies are injured . |
| 14 | Edward rode always a little ahead of his brother , acknowledging the acclamations of his subjects , and Prince Richard waved and smiled — to be greeted always with an especial cheer . |
| 15 | But Morley pounced just a minute after the break to give the Hammers the goal their pressure deserved . |
| 16 | Open champion Faldo threaded together an immaculate last round of 67 , including four birdies and not a dropped shot , to finish joint second with three others on 281 . |
| 17 | During his reign Edward made nearly a thousand presentations to church livings , as many as sixty-nine in one year alone in 1304–5 . |
| 18 | As the sun rose higher in the cloudless sky and the sea below took on an almost Mediterranean hue , Bert and Bella Rafferty and Celia and Brian Markham cracked open a bottle of champagne . |
| 19 | Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation . |
| 20 | A superbly worked goal by Wantage when John Cully headed home a pin point cross by Stewart Bradbury with five minutes remaining , looked to have won this match for three vitally needed points in the Hellenic League premier division . |
| 21 | Today the United States has about a million injecting drug users . |
| 22 | Instead of the numerous originals and copies generated in a documentary ocean bill transaction , the CKR created just a handful of documents , mostly in the form of simple statements . |
| 23 | To many in England the truce of Bruges seemed literally a sell-out : the French forced the garrison at Saint-Sauveur to hand the fortress over to them directly in return for 53,000 francs . |
| 24 | David Robinson headed over from a corner after three minutes , Mark Prudhoe booted away a close range effort from Bobby Barnes after 22 minutes , while Ken Charlery lobbed wide with only the keeper to beat after 35 minutes . |
| 25 | On Tuesdays , Dr Jacks takes both a morning and an afternoon surgery . |
| 26 | Although the victor of a battle at sea , Edward returned home a bitterly disappointed man . |
| 27 | It could have been Hick holding together a Worcestershire innings — and that is exactly what England have been waiting and hoping for from the man who had completed 57 first-class hundreds before he was 25 . |
| 28 | Mr Lang urged the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland and the SMMB to put together a submission showing how the OFT 's findings were flawed and said he would pass it on to the OFT and the president of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine . |
| 29 | At one level , McLuhan brought together a variety of existing studies of cultural modes and forms in oral and in literate societies . |
| 30 | I believe the Kuwaiti people naturally are a peace loving people and we will never forget that erm good nature of us and we will try to capitalise on that and maintain peace and Kuwait become again a country which has to have peaceful causes everybody . |