Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got through quite a few bits and pieces that was |
| 2 | Government services account for approximately the same share of national output as manufacturing . |
| 3 | A thousand feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be — especially with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand . |
| 4 | Just 1,000 feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be , especially one with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand ! |
| 5 | From forty thousand pounds worth of designer garden to patio displays for just a few pounds — there 's something for everyone . |
| 6 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 7 | But he meant this to come for only a few days , not for an indefinite stay . |
| 8 | Although adults can wait for an expected reward , for example until the end of the month for their salary , pre-school children can not wait for even a few hours . |
| 9 | They would possibly attack with all the more force , to avenge him . |
| 10 | Paul 's teaching must have come with all the more force to his original hearers . |
| 11 | Sand equipment can be varied in much the same way as the teacher would vary the equipment at the water tray . |
| 12 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 13 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
| 14 | The variation is constrained in much the same way as present-day phonological variation in speech communities is observed to be constrained . |
| 15 | Clearly , you will not be able to insert the details of the title , but the address of the property , the date , the consideration , the parties and any special provisions as mentioned above can be included in exactly the same way as if the land were registered . |
| 16 | It is useful to establish within an institute that everyone will zero at the same point , so that the numbering starts from approximately the same place each time . |
| 17 | Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out . |
| 18 | Almost at the same time D. P. McKenzie of Cambridge and R. L. Parker of the Scripps Institution in America had come to much the same conclusions as Wilson and together these scientists were responsible for what they called the ‘ New Global Tectonics ’ . |
| 19 | Prior to the 1960s , Soviet economic relations with Latin America were highly sporadic , unstable and confined to only a few countries , principally Argentina and Uruguay . |
| 20 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 21 | ‘ The Danes have just voted on exactly the same treaty . ’ |
| 22 | Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago . |
| 23 | Others see it occurring at exactly the same time each day , but with no obvious connection with any other activity . |
| 24 | He added , however , that his firm would win at least the same revenues as 1992 — $40m . |
| 25 | The job depended upon careful organisation as it had to be come at only a few days ' notice . |
| 26 | I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before . |
| 27 | The proportions of convictions varied by nearly the same degree . |
| 28 | Perhaps efficiency has turned into dumping and state-aided advantages enjoyed by only a few industries here , but both sides should still be on the record . |
| 29 | Entrances should be preceded by only a few frames of ‘ dead ’ action , and exits should be equally neat . |
| 30 | This debate , still pursued by only a few specialists , has profound philosophical and theological implications . |