Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're travelling at two hundred miles an hour and your mind wanders for even a fraction of a second , it can be fatal . |
| 2 | Either tactic offers at least a chance of keeping trouble to the minimum . |
| 3 | The savage , debased , and bestial presences which attack virtue , may undermine its integrity because the potential to degenerate into villainy lies within even a nobleman . |
| 4 | The futuristic hopper calls for quite a bit of disguising . |
| 5 | One such person who a number of us were worried about just did not answer letters or telephone calls for over a year . |
| 6 | The presidential election campaign lasts for nearly a year ; with all the preplanning , advance publicity , and fund raising it lasts for much longer . |
| 7 | Psychoanalysis provides at least a language for talking about these matters , and contains useful speculative hypotheses . |
| 8 | The there 's five organizations which Justice and Peace comes across quite a lot . |
| 9 | The band plays for quite a bit . |
| 10 | It seemed to withstand the onslaught of bicycles , tricycles and roller skates with scarcely a scratch to show . |
| 11 | As a rule , he uses a pair of Marshall tops/cabs with either a Chandler Tube Driver or an Ibanez Tube Screamer , and a Cry Baby wah-wah used mostly for tonal coloration . |
| 12 | The baby sleeps for about an hour from 11 till 12 — I 'm afraid I read a book then — I do n't do very much housework ! |
| 13 | Also the grass grows for only a short-season , and the amount of hay which can be cut and dried varies from one year to the next . |
| 14 | A skill description relates to how a task is performed and what is achieved rather than what actions are taken . |
| 15 | The Society has for over a year objected strongly to the plan under which the current arrangements for remunerating solicitors on the basis of work actually done are to be replaced by a standard fee scheme from April . |
| 16 | In particular , Germany can be expected to become more outspoken in its demands that Britain surrenders at least a part of its ‘ budget rebate ’ , finally clinched by Mrs Thatcher in 1988 . |
| 17 | Then one of the four buys the stakes of the other three : suddenly , that single investor emerges with almost a fifthof a quoted company ; the stake — a high platform for any a potential bidder — has been built far more cheaply than if one person had bought alone . |
| 18 | The path continues for around a mile to the Bloody Bush pillar — named after a dispute over where exactly the border ran . |
| 19 | Each information unit consists of either a combination of given-plus-new elements or of just a new element . |