Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] a [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Queen 's Bench Masters ' Practice Direction of 25 March , 1988 requires that where an order is made transferring an action from the Queen 's Bench Division to a county court , the party having carriage of the order by himself or his solicitor shall forthwith produce at the Filing Department of the Central Office the order transferring the action and shall file : ( 1 ) a copy of the order transferring the action ; ( 2 ) a statement of the names and addresses of the parties and of their solicitors ; ( 3 ) copies of any pleadings served ; ( 4 ) if he is the plaintiff and has not served a statement of claim , particulars of his claim together with a copy for each defendant ; ( 5 ) if he is the defendant and only a counterclaim is transferred and no counterclaim has been served , particulars of the counterclaim together with a copy for the plaintiff ; ( 6 ) where money has been paid into court , a copy of the notice of payment into court ; ( 7 ) a statement of the index numbers of any affidavits filed .
2 The proposed cuts had led to talk of its closure but today a reprieve was announced .
3 Next time , you , your daughter , your grand-daughter or just a neighbour is pregnant , you could think of the thirty-odd years that the NCT has spent safeguarding the interests of parents and babies , and you could get out your cheque book .
4 Although there were no Viet Cong in the village and not a shot was fired at them , they set about slaughtering the Vietnamese civilians with a primitive and sexual savagery that is hard to believe .
5 Another deadly volley of canister and scarcely a man was left on his feet and capable of charging even had he wanted to do so .
6 It takes skill and judgement and sometimes a compromise is not possible — you may have to choose one over the other .
7 ‘ It was a bloody business but eventually a breach was forced in the defences and Bartholomew led us through . ’
8 We will explain our procedure and how a system is developed to be assigned , they will decide .
9 ‘ I want to do well for the club but I seem to be heading up a blind alley and maybe a move is the only solution .
10 There is plenty of evidence for the planting of new vineyards in the Bordelais and even a Poitevin was prepared to admit that Bordeaux wine was of superb quality , but at this date by far the most important wine-exporting region was further north , in Aunis and Saintonge .
11 All we got learnt really was about reproduction and how a baby was born .
12 Often the paintings appear to be signed on the reverse and occasionally a date is inscribed there also .
13 At the time of my visit about half the men had been convicted of heterosexual offences , mostly rape ; about a quarter for offences against children and about a quarter were the ‘ grasses ’ or informers .
14 Numerous houses became schools , many more became hospitals and quite a number were acquired as reform schools .
15 The hardest problems are those where simple processes are hard to find , usually because of some complexity of the puzzle which makes it hard to see the effects of moves , or those where the basic coordinate system and hence a notation is hard to find .
16 Whether Golitsin was a KGB plant or simply a fraud is irrelevant .
17 I understand that a bridge over a stream on this footpath and also a gate are in a very poor state of repair .
18 The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on .
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