Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 pun challenges models of cognition based on analytic reasoning and proposes instead a conception of language as a force capable of altering its object . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Often one takes home the luxury and sees only a mulched wad of money . |
| 5 | He was caught on the sciatic nerve and suffered only a dead-leg and an abrasion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ] ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Under these circumstances , it is not surprising that objective measurements are not commonplace in clinical practice and remain largely a research tool . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mr Collor 's National Reconstruction Party was created as an election vehicle and has only a handful of members . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sort of looking out of your window and seeing just a blank concrete wall in front of you , day after day after day . |
| 21 | In one such incident , described in some detail , he tells us how ‘ one Friday night an enormous navvy pushed the head of a constable through a shop window and started quite a battle in which uniformed and plainclothes men cheerfully joined in ’ . |
| 22 | A simple solution is to use an old film canister and carry just a few hooks leaving the open box at home out of harm 's way . |
| 23 | So , I wonder whether er , as ari er , a matter arising out of this , erm er , the director of education could , erm er , perhaps address this issue and put forward a paper to the next education committee . |
| 24 | It is administered entirely by the Bar Council and meets once a month ( except August ) . |
| 25 | Concentrating on promoting funding for its health care and nutrition projects around the world , UNICEF is asking the public to support it by sharing a meal with someone at work or at home and setting aside a donation which would then go to fund its work . |
| 26 | In its place the Social Fund removed the right to a grant and instituted instead a system of discretionary loans . |
| 27 | On another occasion , a cow made a mad dash from a herd being driven along Crane Bridge Road , managed to dive onto the slope leading to the old ford by the bridge , took off in the Harnham direction and swam almost a mile before the drovers caught up with her . |
| 28 | Roughly speaking , the quality is determined by location in the vineyard , which can be divided into bands : the most northerly band , elevated at a height of between 180 and 220 metres , comprises some of the finest grand cru slopes in all Champagne and represents about a third of Bouzy 's hectarage ; below this is a wide strip situated at a height of between 160 and 180 metres which , in my estimation , should hold the rank of a top premier cru ; the lowest band , at about 170 metres , runs around the flat northern edge of the village and produces vines of a markedly inferior quality . |
| 29 | In this dialogue Masefield offers a brief recapitulation to steady his headlong narrative and offers also a facet of the lad 's character , linking the ebullience of youth to the enforced maturity of the adventure . |
| 30 | Two or three numbers might be required as input to a calculation lasting several hours , impossible to accomplish except by computer and producing only a small volume of output . |