Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bring a red biro and a see-through bag for your map . |
| 2 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 3 | Roberta Junk do sound like a wacky tip for the top ! |
| 4 | Roberta Junk do sound like a wacky tip for the top ! |
| 5 | They rang ‘ Kelly ’ as the show was being transmitted with a wacky tale of how the lights in their house had suddenly began flickering and a music carousel started playing . |
| 6 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 7 | Only once , last autumn , had there been an unnerving lift , a well-dressed man in a Mercedes , who had wanted Luke to drive on towards Devon with him , had offered him dinner and a night at a hotel , had put his hand high up on Luke 's thigh , and been altogether menacing . |
| 8 | Dinner is taken by candlelight at a well-dressed table in the elegant dining room . |
| 9 | Also you struck a whacking blow on his behalf against the sort of people he particularly disliked . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ On the subject of young girls and money , Mr Vigo has sent a whacking bill for your daughter 's tooth . ’ |
| 11 | For Marxists , by contrast , the welfare of the masses is not only economically determined but a quantifiable function of the degree of their immiseration . |
| 12 | The company had expected it to show a quantifiable benefit by reducing absenteeism and labour turnover , and by easing the production control difficulties caused by the inflexibilities of the line system . |
| 13 | The most serious problems over credit use — sometimes an extreme manifestation of one of the general problems , such as the relationship between ignorance , high-cost credit use , and over-commitment ; sometimes something quite distinct — are too rare to show up in a quantifiable way in a sample survey such as ours . |
| 14 | This suggests that what Mill may have meant in saying that one pleasure is of higher quality than another is that it may be pleasanter without there being a quantifiable relation between them , in terms of which there must be some amount of the second which is as worth while , in hedonic terms , as the first . |
| 15 | The bar was against the far wall , plentifully stocked and presided over by a bleached blonde in a white beaded sweater . |
| 16 | It hardly matters , given the man ; the essence , his core , a sly pederast ( Parker was a regular subscriber to magazines entitled such as Boy and Superboy , Kim and Pim ) ; he thought it best , and he felt safer ( it was his constant dread that the magazines — delivered from an English P.O. box number — should go adrift or burst in transit ) that as a cover-up he acted crude ; and he did it so well ( it might be a hateful zest for what he could not have ) that you would have never thought . |
| 17 | The localised heat draws oils from the skin and blood to the surface ; over the years permanently dilated blood vessels appear and brown pigmentation due to leaks from those vessels appear in a reticular pattern on the shins of old people . |
| 18 | THE ONLY known surviving image of a fast-bowling legend as a boy : as a man he has at least 307 reasons to remember a glittering Test career . |
| 19 | RALPH DELLOR examines a fast-bowling study at Alsager College |
| 20 | PRESIDING over the collapse of one of America 's largest newspapers has been a humbling experience for the Tribune Company , a Chicago-based media group that is proud of its reputation for tough management . |
| 21 | Having teenagers is a humbling experience at the best of times — and having teenagers taking exams is the greatest leveller of all . |
| 22 | In the picture my father was holding a portrait-sized photograph of his first wife , Eric 's mother , and she was the only one who was smiling . |
| 23 | When Ace arrived back at the hospital with Petion- and the Doctor , she found Howard talking animatedly , but not entirely cheerfully , to a hawk-faced man in Marine uniform and what she thought of as a Smokey-bear hat . |
| 24 | President De Klerk , he said , had not begun to address the central issue , ‘ that is , the creation of a non-racial democracy in a unitary state ’ . |
| 25 | Instead , it is sometimes useful to envisage a three-fold classification of constraints on transport availability for households . |
| 26 | And the outstanding debt which excludes mortgages has seen a three-fold increase to £40 billion . |
| 27 | And the outstanding debt which excludes mortgages has seen a three-fold increase to £40 billion . |
| 28 | The total represents a three-fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher . |
| 29 | Although the plans were later cut back , the Suez crisis encouraged a three-fold increase in the then current plans for new nuclear power stations . |
| 30 | Increased oil revenues in 1990 [ see p. 38071 ] accounting for a rise in foreign exchange allotments for several industries , were reported to have made possible a three-fold increase in car production , announced by the Ministry of Heavy Industries on Aug. 6 . |