Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a review of its operation in 1977 it became clear that only a minority of patients referred from the other hospitals were being successfully rehabilitated and that St Wulstan 's had become another long-stay hospital . |
| 2 | Sometimes the tides run fast an' sometimes a man gets the feelin' 'e can swim across from shore ter shore with ease when it 's runnin' slow . |
| 3 | Aluminium had recently been prepared in bulk by the eminent Parisian Professor Henri Ste-Claire Deville , who became famous as both a teacher and researcher . |
| 4 | At first when you enter , the church seems forbidding and rather a muddle . |
| 5 | While he realises that there will always be problems in trying to teach anyone a new subject , Reas admits that it was sad to see a keen student being teased by his less keen classmates , but felt hopeful that perhaps a seed had been planted that one day would grow . |
| 6 | She died childless when still a minor in 1651 and he never remarried . |
| 7 | More than a decade after the introduction of legislation against sex or race discrimination , it remains true that only a minority of senior business executives are women or members of racial minority groups . |
| 8 | The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye |