Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically . |
| 2 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 3 | It is of course only a question of time and evolution . |
| 4 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 5 | The scales suggest the scales of a fish rather than armour ; was the priest perhaps a priest of Poteidan ? |
| 6 | The Welshmen , crouching low and running like hares , overtook the two who led the laden horse only a matter of minutes before they were themselves overtaken . |
| 7 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 8 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 9 | Alina scrambled up alongside , and found herself a rock just a couple of feet lower than his own . |
| 10 | Is the problem of losing weight just a question of vanity for most of us or a medical necessity ? |
| 11 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 12 | Is Robben still an advocate of Howard Dumble amplifiers ? |
| 13 | We got the telephone number of Ontos Uk Ltd , Richmond , Surrey wrong a couple of weeks ago , its +44 81 332 7245 . |
| 14 | This process of interaction is for Marx and Engels both a source of conceptualization and also of a sort of natural religion , at least in the earlier stages of evolution . |
| 15 | I was n't therefore able to recommend this film when a few months later a woman from Nottingham requested a loan . |
| 16 | In this study about a quarter of patients had a biopsy for a sole haematological abnormality . |
| 17 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 18 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 19 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |
| 20 | But how far was British industry simply a victim of circumstances ? |
| 21 | During half-time today a number of police officers will be questioning you all over the disappearance , during the early hours of Monday morning , of our grandstand . |
| 22 | If a country depends on one or two primary products , e.g. bauxite or coffee , for the bulk of its export revenue then a fall in world demand and prices for these products can have a disastrous impact on export revenues , GNP growth and economic development programmes . |
| 23 | They should , for that matter , hand out a runners-up trophy too a replica of Wembley would do so the beaten finalists would have more than forced smiles to parade on homecoming day . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've managed to wangle her an apartment just a floor below Nicky and me , ’ Florian volunteered cheerfully . |
| 25 | Well what what you could do is put in brackets somewhere a list of accents you can think of so that if people really do n't know what to do . |
| 26 | As she had passed her driving test only a couple of months before , she was very cautious when the shiny new vehicle arrived , delivered on Christmas Eve . |
| 27 | The presbytery of Hamilton 's proposed solution was a repeal of the nineteen sixty three act and a reversion to the nineteen thirty three act which required from parents only a profession of faith . |
| 28 | With her head down , concentrating on pushing the skis along and her mind happily listing the insults she 'd love to heap on his golden head , Shannon failed to notice that he 'd come to a halt just a couple of feet in front of her , till she cannoned straight into his solid bulk , her skis sliding neatly between his . |
| 29 | It came to a halt just a couple of yards away , and her stomach gave an uncomfortable lurch as the door opened and Eleanor got out . |
| 30 | A tradition passed down by early historians of the Dominican Order would make Alexander already a teacher of theology at Toulouse in 1215 , when his lectures were attended by the order 's founder , St Dominic . |