Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lazio star , pictured left carrying a lot of extra poundage on his way to Rome two months ago , has shed more than a stone in weight since his £5.5million summer move from Tottenham — but he must wait a few more weeks before he returns to serious competition . |
| 2 | ROLAND STADLER , Switzerland 's non-playing Davis Cup captain , has quit less than a month before the final against the United States . |
| 3 | He has conceded less than a goal a game in his 249 Football League appearances . |
| 4 | Tension has risen sharply since a referendum last month in which the majority of the population voted for independence . |
| 5 | MENTION the Liphook Golf Club to anyone who has played there and a faraway look will come into their eyes as memories of the classic heathland course flood back . |
| 6 | However , as discussed in Chapter 3 , this concept has become more than a description of a right accruing to all tenants . |
| 7 | ‘ Shakespeare ’ has become more than a collection of Renaissance texts and is now a site for wider cultural explorations and controversies . |
| 8 | Furthermore , competition has reduced somewhat because a number of the smaller software houses have disappeared due to the recession ; and the group is recruiting again , after having frozen this activity for the past couple of years . |
| 9 | The report — which has taken more than a year to prepare in one of the most complex inquiries undertaken by Sir Anthony 's office — will address the question of when the department first became negligent if it is shown to have been aware of the possible difficulties . |
| 10 | Reaching agreement has taken more than a year as the machinery rings have continued to argue their case , backed by the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society and the accountants Reeves and Neylan . |
| 11 | Mrs Linley , who has waited more than a year to swap her previous house in Trafford Close for a larger property , feared she might have to replace the lock herself . |
| 12 | Your attack has lasted longer than a day or two , despite your self-help , or if you are having repeated attacks |
| 13 | It was time to retire , to return to England-land , to the genteel sheltered accommodation I 'd fled more than a decade earlier . |
| 14 | If the ships had been made of a material like glass they would have broken long before a crack became conspicuous . |
| 15 | Kate Howey , 18 , the world junior middleweight champion , might have won more than a bronze if she had not incurred a seven-point penalty against Marianne Charve , of France , in her semi-final . |
| 16 | We could have used more than a couple of training sessions , though , to prepare to meet a team of the All Blacks ’ calibre . ’ |
| 17 | The episode would never have become more than a statistic in a communique , but for the nationality of the victorious pilot ; Caporal Kiffin Rockwell of Asheville , North Carolina . |
| 18 | It was plainly a hungry leopard , for it was creeping up on an unsuspecting black-naped hare , an animal that would hardly have provided more than a couple of mouthfuls . |
| 19 | A handsomely produced but unillustrated book like Davy 's Six Discourses ( 1827 ) would have cost more than a week 's wages for an artisan like Faraday had been . |
| 20 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 21 | Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday . |
| 22 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 23 | Typewriter script , which became the world 's most familiar type-face between 1867 and 1985 , will have taken less than a decade to change from a staple into a mannerism . |
| 24 | On retirement their savings and pension enable them to buy their own flat or cottage ; but because they may never have cooked more than a snack for themselves or lived alone , the adjustment to this different way of life can be hard to make . |
| 25 | By the time the last display is over on Sunday the RAF hope to have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for their benevolent fund . |
| 26 | After paying off the driver Nathan steered her into a busy , softly lit restaurant , and she had to admit he had guessed correctly that a meal did indeed top her list of priorities . |
| 27 | Judicial decisions gradually shifted vicarages from the second category to the first ; before the end of Edward 's reign , royal judges had deemed more than a score of advowsons of perpetual vicarages to be lay fee . |
| 28 | He fastened his seat belt without speaking and the Rover slid gently into Broadway , the road he had crossed less than a fortnight earlier on his way to see Sir Paul Berowne . |
| 29 | Suppressing the Poles had taken less than a year , but the pacification of Muslims in the mountainous region between the Black Sea and the Caspian was to continue beyond the end of the reign . |
| 30 | In 1984 , foresters found that 20 per cent of the Norway spruce in West Germany 's forests had lost more than a quarter of their needles . |