Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of sampling has given rise to quite a lot of criticism when used for political poll surveys . |
| 2 | erm , my name 's from Edinburgh a couple of jobs one which is the sort of presentations I do tends to be one to one the hardest one for me as I say meetings with quite a lot of people there |
| 3 | I last visited Mexico for almost a month during May and June 1989 . |
| 4 | The only serious flaw is his use of BASIC to provide examples of how a programming language works . |
| 5 | A spreadsheet program does n't replace the traditional accounts package as a means of keeping track of where a business spends its money but it be a powerful tool for preparing analyses or projections . |
| 6 | I noticed Pemberton at least a year ago and thought what a good player he was . |
| 7 | The exception had become the rule ; nearly half the counties had lost their largest urban centres ; the division between rural and urban local government had hardened in a form which caused controversy for nearly a century , and which is still reflected in the current structure ( Hampton 1966:464 — 5 ) . |
| 8 | Abnormal total reflux time ( 24 hour pH recording ) in four of 14 patients studied contrasts with about a 10% incidence 6 months- 2 years after fundoplication . |
| 9 | Usually they 're silly things were you have n't quite clipped in correctly to the rope and suddenly , zap , you realise you 've missed death by only a hair 's breadth . |
| 10 | The canons ' tower is still there ; indeed the citizens — by a strange romantic gesture — built it yet higher in the nineteenth century ; and it stands as a monument to the forces and struggles which made Milan at once a centre of intense parochial jealousies , and of international fame and meaning , in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 11 | Thus the Baileys ' garden was L-shaped , and the remaining portion of Tullivers ' land , a mere quarter of an acre , allowed room for only a lawn , a few mature lilac and may trees and the flower border which had been the Admiral 's particular pride . |
| 12 | So we talked to him but erm we did n't actually see Mrs until about a quarter to eleven . |
| 13 | I 'm not bothered about them you 've got tre you can go in the countryside and see that you 've got trees at well a lot of us have got them outside our own houses . |
| 14 | According to government estimates , the Soufriere geothermal project could potentially provide electricity for around a quarter of the island 's population and saved about US$250 million in foreign exchange over a 30-year period . |
| 15 | A common law disqualification will usually amount to a breach of natural justice and give grounds for either an appeal under s.39(4) ( c ) or other review of the decision by way of judicial review , reduction , etc. ; see 5.39 . |
| 16 | The Gowrie faction guarded James for almost a year , issuing decrees in his name while claiming that he was their willing guest . |
| 17 | In the early 1970s , in New York city , one David Berkowitz terrorised residents for over a year with random shootings of young women and their friends . |
| 18 | For example , to increase working and manoeuvring space in an existing work triangle you could set up a second food preparation or cooking area with perhaps a microwave oven outside your main work area . |
| 19 | She hesitated for a moment before adding in a lowered voice , ‘ She 's known Philippe for quite a while , but I do n't think she ever realised … ’ |
| 20 | First , in the classroom the teacher is giving recognition to only a part of themselves , and a failing one at that when he concentrates on schoolwork . |
| 21 | I 've known Heather for quite a while — a sort of on-and-off relationship , I suppose . |
| 22 | And provided work for quite a lot of men . |
| 23 | I 've known Newley for quite a while now . |
| 24 | Mark Little is Joe Mangle 's alter ego , the real-life actor who was doing comedy for nearly a decade before Neighbours . |
| 25 | If you are equally worried about giving birth in both a hospital and at home you might prefer something in the middle : Some hospitals allow women to use water pools in the labour ward and you can arrange for your GP to help with the birth rather than hospital doctors . |
| 26 | Neither the gun nor the money had ever been found , nor was there any forensic evidence linking Kearney to either a hat , a bag or a pair of shoes found at the scene . |
| 27 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
| 28 | At least one of Sun 's satellite businesses last week voiced concern over how a VAR would be defined under the agreement whilst resellers Unigram.X spoke to expressed dissatisfaction with Sun 's ‘ get-tough ’ policy . |
| 29 | Coordination at its highest , when we develop it , we say we 've developed skills , and if you 've done that can you see you acquired skills in quite a lot of situations , and again that 's an area where you 'll get a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 30 | For the more serious , a twin-sailed transporter had already been devised that was capable of taking loads of around a kilo ( 2.21 b ) . |