Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This tiny scrap suddenly took on a personality . |
| 2 | In that final year , the income from the sale of lace , vegetables , fat and lard , pigs , horses , hay and firewood together brought in a total of only £74 . |
| 3 | If a defendant merely carries on a hobby , e. g. of buying , refurbishing and re-selling cars , a court might find that a transaction made in pursuance of the hobby , e.g. when he sells one of the refurbished cars , is not ‘ in the course of a trade or business , ’ Blackmore v. Belamy ( 1983 D. C. ) . |
| 4 | THE draw for the last sixteen of the FA Trophy yesterday threw up a battle of the Irish . |
| 5 | Coyle also picked up a Guinness Player of the Month award from the Northern Ireland Football Writers . |
| 6 | Opposite the village the Gotthard line executes two further tunnel-loops in succession almost carrying out a figure-of-eight while all the time gaining a further height of 122m ( 400ft ) inside the rock . |
| 7 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 8 | But the initial simple desire for change soon took on a more sinister hue when Rupert Murdoch completely switched his printing operation from Fleet Street to Wapping in the East End of London . |
| 9 | The Banbury Baptist Church who invited Millard Fuller here … believes this seed planting mission could lead to Habitat for Humanity eventually setting up a nationwide centre based in the town . |
| 10 | Slugs can be a menace in the greenhouse in winter so put down a few slug pellets . |
| 11 | She was looking exhilarated herself , sitting up in bed with a welter of papers before her , her pen laboriously scratching over a sheet of parchment . |
| 12 | Then he cried ‘ Daughter ! ’ to a girl just disappearing round a corner . |
| 13 | Sales here rose by 18 per cent , and the Miss Selfridge subsidiary also put in a strong performance with a sales gain of 17.5 per cent on a store-for-store comparison . |
| 14 | The committee also turned down a request from batsman Philip Robinson , who declined a new contract with the county , to be classified as a ‘ non-contested ’ registration . |
| 15 | The Committee also handed out a four-week suspension to Bruce Dowling , the jump jockey , for forging a doctor 's signature . |
| 16 | The new law immediately sparked off a political crisis as hardline Slovak nationalists began demonstrations and a hunger strike in protest against a clause allowing the official use of minority languages in towns or villages where the minority nationality formed at least 20 per cent of the population ( a large ethnic Hungarian minority , concentrated in southern Slovakia , was increasingly the target of nationalist hatred ; there were also Polish , Ukrainian and Gypsy communities ) . |
| 17 | Belfast City Council is hoping 110,000 people will take part in some form of exercise today to notch up a hat-trick of victories in the international fitness challenge . |
| 18 | ‘ The Mafia immediately put out a contract on the gang . |
| 19 | The Act therefore laid down a " statement of particulars " to be included in any contract — the nature and length of the voyage , the time to be on board , the capacity in which the seaman was to serve , the amount of wages and scale of provisions to be provided and any disciplinary rules or penalties to be applied while on board — thus anticipating by 122 years the detailing of terms universally required by the Contracts of Employment Act 1972 . |
| 20 | Outside , the sea was still and calm , the rising sun brightly peering over a layer of cloud , giving the sky an orange hue . |
| 21 | It may even have been the case — a suggestion emanating , admittedly , from a piece of post-war testimony — that the Reich Propaganda Ministry deliberately started off a rumour that the Führer , on discovering what was taking place ( in an ‘ action ’ which , in reality , he himself had authorized in writing ) , had given the order to halt it immediately . |
| 22 | Artificial appearance thereby takes on a sexual overtone which Porter detects in the expression ‘ making faces ’ , meaning to have sex Keith Thomas observes that by the eighteenth century bodily control became a symbol of social hierarchy An elegant person would not pass wind audibly , or expose teeth while laughing . |
| 23 | As in Chapter 2 , there will be room only to open up a few of the many possible perspectives and issues , and to suggest some ways of thinking about them . |
| 24 | Once this broader scope for mainstream American linguistics was established , pragmatics soon took on a life of its own , for the issues raised are interesting and important in their own right . |
| 25 | The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape . |
| 26 | Brachiopod feeding is carried out by the lophophore ( p. 61 ) , a ciliated band usually carried on a loop , which also creates the currents used in feeding . |
| 27 | Sometimes in drama a teacher deliberately sets up a structure that appears to lack any obvious game element . |
| 28 | But that teacher also turned out a lot of good scholars — some even passed the examination for grammar school , although not all those who did actually went . |
| 29 | In the programme , called Raiders of the Rainforest , Friends of the Earth alleges that MPL a subsidiary of Babcock Electrical Projects Ltd of Gloucester which is in turn controlled by FKI plc illegally siphoned off a significant proportion of this loan . |
| 30 | For a moment they stared at each other , while the klaxon remorselessly threw out a yard and a half of raucousness every two seconds . |