Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) ‘ firm ’ means an unincorporated partnership consisting of solicitors or recognised bodies or both , or a multi-national partnership and includes also a solicitor who is a sole practitioner ; |
| 2 | The amazing naked cat — the Canadian Sphynx — lacks both guard and awn hairs and has only a soft fuzz of down hairs on its extremities . |
| 3 | The pun challenges models of cognition based on analytic reasoning and proposes instead a conception of language as a force capable of altering its object . |
| 4 | Our most up to date probing of Intel Corp 's P5 or Pentium architecture — given that the company is sending different messages to different parts of the industry — has the processor running at only two thirds of its promised speed and needing both a heat sink and fan to dissipate the heat it is producing . |
| 5 | Your recollections will no doubt revive a lot of memories for many of our older readers and provide quite a few talking points for younger ones . |
| 6 | Often one takes home the luxury and sees only a mulched wad of money . |
| 7 | He was caught on the sciatic nerve and suffered only a dead-leg and an abrasion . |
| 8 | The gardener narrowed long , grey-blue eyes and made never a move . |
| 9 | The vestry itself was so familiar from childhood memories that Dalgliesh could have taken one quick glance , shut his eyes and spoken aloud an inventory of high church piety : the packets of incense on top of the cupboard ; the incense holder and censer ; the crucifix and , behind the faded red serge curtain , the lace-trimmed vestments and the short starched surplices of the choir . |
| 10 | But , while this is broadly true , many do this within only general guidelines and have therefore an important , if subordinate , policy-making role . |
| 11 | Keegan and Newcastle , though , have other problems to solve : like how United lost their pattern after the break and mustered just a couple of halfchances . |
| 12 | THE former Soviet Union 's Aeroflot is by far the world 's largest airline-it has up to 1,500 aircraft and provides about a tenth of all air travel . |
| 13 | The League 's leader , Umberto Bossi , announced on Nov. 27 that with his party now occupying 14 seats on the 50-seat city council — one more than any other party — he intended to appoint a mayor and put together a coalition adminstration . |
| 14 | In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard . |
| 15 | De Castelnau paused at Avize to quell the pessimism at de Langle 's HQ and to telephone ahead a warning to poor Herr not to yield any more ground , or ‘ the consequences would be most grave for him [ Herr ] ’ . |
| 16 | So step two becomes , probably , reversing that vote and inserting instead a further amendment to the bill allowing for the social issue to be addressed , in line with the earlier decision of the House , after the treaty is ratified . |
| 17 | Under these circumstances , it is not surprising that objective measurements are not commonplace in clinical practice and remain largely a research tool . |
| 18 | His red , lumpy features were transfigured and he stopped being a badly assembled mass of fleshy fragments and became instead a vital man . |
| 19 | 200 yds later , by another stile , fence veers half right , path turns right here , still uphill and now away from fence and bends right a few yards later up to stile into field . |
| 20 | Northallerton Match Group 's Steve Russell , drawn on the sheltered path of the lake , utilised the pole to good effect and put together an all-gudgeon bag of 3–2–0 falling to bloodworm at seven metres . |
| 21 | ‘ Then went Samson to Gaza and saw there a harlot , and went in unto her . ’ |
| 22 | He conquered Cyprus in three months and established there a base of operations for the Christian forces in the East . |
| 23 | Rhoda would open the tin and foil once a week or at least once a fortnight before Christmas to soak the cloth with more bourbon before resealing it . |
| 24 | After a supper of pea soup — ‘ One pea each , ’ the duty corporal quipped — and bully beef , he was quartered — and learning new words by the minute — in a large gymnasium that temporarily housed four hundred beds , each a mere two feet in width and set only a foot apart . |
| 25 | The 40-member National People 's Assembly , " the supreme organ of the state " , is elected for a five-year term and meets twice a year . |
| 26 | This is a beautiful 25 mile stretch and brings together a wonderful combination of quaint seaside villages and the lively bustling holiday village of Pendine . |
| 27 | You will , in theory , be able to walk into a dealer 's showroom and drive away a road-ready car without even having to take a spanner to it . |
| 28 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 29 | It meanwhile was still being printed letterpress and seemed more an arts magazine than a product of any new movement , and put together by amateurs with leather arm-patches on their tweed jackets . |
| 30 | Sort of looking out of your window and seeing just a blank concrete wall in front of you , day after day after day . |