Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [conj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beluga whales emit distress calls when even a conventional icebreaker is 80 k ( 50 miles ) away , and flee when such vessels approach within 40 k ( 25 miles ) . |
| 2 | Pressnell suggests that only a brilliant speech by Keynes prevented its rejection in the Lords.The loan was damaging to British pride , while among its terms the insistence on sterling convertibility within a year of payment of the first instalment was particularly ominous . |
| 3 | The view of the Pleiades is much more breathtaking with my 7 × 50 binoculars than with the lowest power I can use on my large reflector , because the small field of view with the telescope means that only a small part of the cluster can be seen at any one time . |
| 4 | The commission says evidence shows that even a modest toll of 1.5 pence a mile for cars and 4.5 pence for lorries could cause one tenth of motorway traffic to divert to other roads . |
| 5 | Miron Straf , the director of the Committee on National Statistics in Washington , which monitors and reviews US government statistics , is to be invited to address the Royal Statistical Society ( RSS ) on how his organisation operates and how a similar group could be established in Britain . |
| 6 | Theodore 's career reveals that even a good bishop could be powerless in a city where there were too many other interests . |
| 7 | The RSPB claims that even a small oil spill in these areas could have a disastrous effect on wildlife . |
| 8 | COMPUTER users , both professional and amateur , dread power cuts because even a short interruption can lose all the data in the machine 's memory . |