Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First race for seven months latest when never a factor , 25l 7th to Cardinal Point ( Chepstow 1m , Gd-Sft ) . |
| 2 | President Bush had stated on Aug. 2 that only a health problem — which he stressed did not currently exist — would deter him from seeking re-election for a second term . |
| 3 | Bhattarai met with the King on May 15 and afterwards a statement was issued from the Royal Palace explaining that the drafting committee had been abolished . |
| 4 | Though rejected by the army in 1914 on grounds of defective eyesight , Gurney enlisted on 9 February 1915 while still a student and from 25 May 1916 served in France as a private with the 2nd/5th Gloucesters . |
| 5 | For instance the regional treasurer , who was given the Friem and Claybury brief while still a deputy , had ‘ a personal commitment , having visited the hospitals and realised the urgency of getting people out of these awful places ’ . |
| 6 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 7 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 8 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 9 | She was twenty-five years old and still a virgin , and as she looked at her image in the mirror great tears welled up and spilled over as she relived Ace 's words . |
| 10 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 11 | The Treasury and Civil Service Committee ( Second Report , 1987–8 ) recommendation that departmental reports should give information about the costs of major publicity and advertising is to apply for departments who spend £½ million or more a year on paid UK publicity . |
| 12 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |
| 13 | All the other players you hear about from time to time , Charlton , Giles , Hunter et all but never a word about Harvey . |
| 14 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 15 | As Maggie turns , I catch a flash of eye , fairy blue but just a bit milky . |
| 16 | An inadequate list may include reduction in infant and child mortality better employment prospects for educated children making investment in education worthwhile and therefore a cost related to the number of children ; women 's status in the household and extent of emancipation in making decisions ; education of parents and enrolment rates in education for children , and women 's participation in the formal labour force ( where pregnancy implies unavoidable loss of earnings ) . |
| 17 | REPEAT TIME is used to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run repeatedly at given time intervals , for example nightly or once a week . |
| 18 | Annabel Croft , once the British No 1 but now a star of stage and the small screen , cringed at the quality of her performance in the opening round of the Volkswagen National Championships at Telford yesterday . |
| 19 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 20 | With the same 14 mm bait I will now be using a size 4 and possibly a size 2 . |
| 21 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
| 22 | Major certainly changed his life as he came back with a lot more than just a sun tan . |
| 23 | Now need you help , because they hope to offer a lot more than just a roof over the heads . |
| 24 | Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea . |
| 25 | But when he spoke it was not of her but of Peach , how to feed him , what sort of supplements he should have , that although he had had his routine immunizations , he must have a booster at a year old and also an injection against a new sort of feline virus . |
| 26 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |
| 27 | Smaller stones about four to six inches long and only an inch wide which have broken ends could easily have been used to knock limpets off rocks . |
| 28 | George , a former school truant and now a construction trainee , said : ‘ At least I did something … but the others , you saw them at school , just lazy . ’ |
| 29 | The result is a beautiful leisure park , one and a half miles long and nearly a mile wide , in the middle of the Danube . |
| 30 | First , the restitutionary remedy is expressed to be available not only against ‘ that person , ’ i.e. the contravener of section 3 or perhaps an associate of the contravener , but also against ‘ any other person … knowingly concerned in the contravention . ’ |