Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Gavin Jones is 12 years old and also a pupil at Llantarnam School . |
| 3 | He was a Polynesian Hawaiian , thirty-two years old and already a legend on the North Shore . |
| 4 | Kevin O'Neil was just thirty years old and already a part of it in Dublin . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Maggie turns , I catch a flash of eye , fairy blue but just a bit milky . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | REPEAT TIME is used to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run repeatedly at given time intervals , for example nightly or once a week . |
| 10 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | The result is a beautiful leisure park , one and a half miles long and nearly a mile wide , in the middle of the Danube . |