Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strongly hinted that " a dividend is expected in a few weeks time " which is equivalent to " a discount on the purchase price . " |
| 2 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 3 | This Sri Lankan Buddhist priest confronts an image of the Buddha hoping to find , through contemplation , answers to the many mysteries humanity may never find the answer to . |
| 4 | Plans for eight flats , a shop and garaging on the former Ringtons Tea site and a neighbouring builder 's yard in Oxford Road , Hartlepool , were thrown out by councillors after planners said the development was too intense for the area . |
| 5 | Mrs Campbell , who was 47 , had been sexually assaulted and strangled at the All Travellers Quest Guest House last week . |
| 6 | Last week the Ulster Amateur Drama Festival had to be moved at a few hours notice , after Belfast 's Grand Opera House was extensively damaged by a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 7 | The first Rottweiler to win a best exhibit at an All Breeds Championship Show was Ch. |
| 8 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 9 | mhm Does it make any sense to put in the same numbers _ does it add to the attraction from a statistical point of view , the likelihood to win ? |
| 10 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 11 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 12 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 13 | Expensive items of jewellery may be insured under an All Risks policy . |
| 14 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 15 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 16 | And the first deadline for applications for B T three shares expires in a few hours time . |
| 17 | In fact , the defendants were more likely to be insured on an all risks policy for council employees . |
| 18 | Police intervention provoked allegations of brutality , but media coverage focused on the few police injuries , underemphasised the extent of police aggression and exaggerated the women 's part in the violence . |
| 19 | Currency : Spanish pesetas Best buys : ceramics , baskets , guitars Sports : surfing , windsurfing , scuba diving , snorkelling , sailing , walking Nightclubs : limited to a few discos Season : from May until late October . |
| 20 | There were several possibilities — amongst them , reading through the several books Mr Bligh-Bond wrote on the subject of church architecture , Paganism and the occult . |
| 21 | Kinsey 's verdict turned a potential Lions win into an All Blacks victory . |
| 22 | and in one of the rooms he used to have these girlie pin-ups of the dame , these portraits of all these women he used to fancy in a few years time . |
| 23 | Suppose we expect the relation ( 1 ) to be unc and suppose further that we have the following experimental table : unc Then in view of ( 5 ) our equations for solutions may be written unc Before we proceed to the least squares solution , let us see what results would be obtained if we solved these equations three at a time , with e taken to be zero for each set of three . |
| 24 | It gets a mention here because any proceeds ( and there probably will not be many ) go to the All Saints Renovation Fund , the church where the Controversial Cleric is vicar , and the Hetton Silver Band , which lost its sheet music in an arson attack on its hut last month . |
| 25 | After the wedding , a reception was held in the New Farm Loch Community Centre , followed by a few days honeymoon in York . |
| 26 | Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium . |
| 27 | Some have called for a boycott of the elections , but most are likely to back the faction of the Akali Dal , the Sikh political party , led by a former police officer , Simranjit Singh Mann . |
| 28 | I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference . |
| 29 | I 'll be talking in a few moments time about aviation travel and the risks and , indeed , the trends that are being reflected at the present time , but erm before we move to that let's just think about those of us who perhaps have decided we wo n't go abroad . |
| 30 | Pour into glasses , top each one with a whole fresh strawberry and serve with a few amaretti biscuits . |