Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | The only serious flaw is his use of BASIC to provide examples of how a programming language works . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | It is these laws which have been used to humiliate tired and defenceless visitors , to deport workers without even a hearing , to lock innocent people in prison and brand them criminals , and to provide employers with a work-force made powerless through legislation . |
| 10 | Dr David Clark , Labour 's agriculture spokesman , said : ‘ It was entirely irresponsible of the ministry to allow farmers for nearly a week to feed contaminated material to animals . |
| 11 | But if , if our fee bids , that have been going in so far , are there or thereabouts and having monitored reports for quite a while , tendencies and yes some are under and some are a bit over but in general they 're not th they 're not that far out . |
| 12 | The book costs £10 and gives details of how a UK scientist can find a research post in Japan . |
| 13 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 14 | He continued to ask visitors for quite a while about their fainting habits . |
| 15 | She had ideas about how a toy shop should be run in these times . |
| 16 | None of these new and developing areas of study was without its problems , and the committees and boards had to be constantly confronting difficulties of either a general and continuing or a highly specific kind . |
| 17 | Everything was in order down there , twenty-something bones webbed and working wonders with never a twinge . |
| 18 | A third advantage , pointed out by Labov ( 1981 : 25 ) , is that ‘ by emphasising deeper studies of groups and social networks , we gain in the possibility of explaining linguistic behaviour ’ , in other words , we might derive insights into why a speaker 's language occupies a particular position in a wider social structure . |