Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 2 | It is possible that [ J. ] could inhale vomit during either a nasogastric feed or an epileptic fit . |
| 3 | It is possible that [ J. ] could inhale vomit during either a nasogastric feed or an epileptic fit . |
| 4 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 5 | The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time . |
| 6 | Iris has known Philippe for quite a long time . |
| 7 | The adventure ties up a computer for quite a long time . |
| 8 | A single kiln , for instance , probably implies a potter 's presence for only a short period in the life of a settlement some may even have been itinerant or at best semi-residential , moving on once local demand had been satisfied . |
| 9 | But , in contrast , they may partly see the ad in this way a number of times during quite a short period . |
| 10 | Steam on the kitchen window cuts off the railway lines , making the tiny kitchen for once a friendly place . |
| 11 | In a real inversion layer the Fermi energy lies in a gap between when a whole number of levels are filled with electrons ( see Box ) . |
| 12 | This will be the case where , for example , a minister stays in a government department for only a limited period of time . |
| 13 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 14 | Well here , here are char for example , this is a female , you see the , the white line on the fins and the very pale pink spots , this will actually get gradually more highly coloured until about December when they will be quite bright red , and , and in my opinion not a question really , but might be that some of these other ones are pretty nice as well here 's quite a , quite a dark little trout , probably been in the light for quite a long time , right now nevertheless that 's a female as well just a couple more famous small ones here , that 's a young salmon , that 's really a beauty . |
| 15 | Hearing : After they have been in their homes for quite a short time , people who live near railway lines cease to hear the sound of the passing trains , even though the noise may seem deafening to a visitor . |
| 16 | Incidentally , I trust that the fretwire used is up to scratch ; I 've recently seen a few Korean guitars with very soft fretwire which would probably need a re-fret after only a short time . |
| 17 | It seems fair to say , in fact , that the first thirty years of Proust 's life laid much of the intellectual basis for his later literary erm achievements , and it was incidentally also during the eighteen nineties , that , among other things , he obtained a , a Licence des lettres , that he attended Bergson 's lectures , that he discovered Ruskin , and that he wrote the bulk of nearly a thousand manuscript sheets discovered in an old hatbox after the last World War , and published as Jean Santeuil in nineteen fifty-two . |
| 18 | It describes , too , the extraordinary effect of the collapse of quite a small sewer . |
| 19 | FRANK SIDEBOTTOM , the man whose papier-mache head must be responsible for the loss of quite a fair amount of small coniferous growths , now has his own show . |
| 20 | There was an abandoned city on the coast to the south of the G'bai , and the G'bai itself was almost certainly the result of either a nuclear war or an accident of such proportions that it had produced large-scale volcanic activity . |
| 21 | In very urgent cases the result of either a full land charges search or bankruptcy search can , for a fee of £2 a name be telephoned . |
| 22 | Now , partly I think as a result of the numbers being fewer , but partly as a result of simply a greater awareness of need , I think , the schools are more caring places , they do try erm not to treat erm minority groups as just annoying variants on the majority group , they try to erm think through their problems and to help to meet them . |
| 23 | The court might be in a foreign country , there to try a citizen of yet a third nation , but it was her element and she was relieved to be back in it , even though she could take no active part in the trial . |
| 24 | Furthermore , a three-phase study of over a thousand school leavers in the Lothian region of Scotland found that , in marked contrast to alcohol and tobacco use , ‘ levels of illicit drug use were much higher amongst both males and females who were unemployed than amongst their peers who were working or were full-time students ’ ( Plant et al . |
| 25 | The study of even a single society is considered to be extraordinarily difficult because of the complexity of social relations and the obvious problems of trying to generalize about people , their groupings and the structures within which they act . |
| 26 | Cowslips are a delicacy among rabbits , and as a rule there are very few left by late May in the neighbourhood of even a small warren . |
| 27 | Amid the flood of new text books and monographs there occasionally appear books of quite a different character which , if of suitable quality , are a valuable supplement to the more traditional undergraduate literature . |
| 28 | C can not challenge the conclusion of the agreement between A and B , unless that agreement constitutes a violation of either a prior agreement between A and itself , or of a multilateral agreement to which both are parties . |
| 29 | LAGAN Valley Hospital can nearly double its workload with only a slight increase in costs , a public meeting has heard . |
| 30 | LAGAN Valley Hospital can nearly double its workload with only a slight increase in costs , a public meeting was told today . |