Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Check around the outside of your house for weak spots where a thief could get in — a low fence , an unlocked gate . |
| 2 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 3 | She should also swim for 30 minutes once a week and do my video Thighs , Tums & Bums 1-2 times a week . |
| 4 | They do n't wait for 30 minutes once a week . ’ |
| 5 | Power is a relation between social groups not a possession to be worn like a garment or flaunted like an antiracist badge . |
| 6 | In such circumstances either credits are arranged with merchants for surplus materials less a restocking charge , or they are sold or scrapped . |
| 7 | He is allowed visitors for 10 minutes once a week . |
| 8 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 9 | C. P. Snow 's The Masters ( 1951 ) is a precursor rather than an instance : it tells a story of an election within a Cambridge college , a bitter tale of disappointed hopes ; but it hardly questions the intellectual claims of academia , and it ultimately belongs , like other Snow novels , to a world of administrative ambitions where a university is seen as an out-of-town version of Whitehall . |
| 10 | The total cosmid library contained about 8500 clones , a coverage of 23 , but most hybridisations were done on a sublibrary of 3000 clones ie a coverage of 8.5 . |
| 11 | They undertake a booking of a minimum of fifty seats once a week if we will give a special price . |
| 12 | Perhaps more significant in this context was the stance taken by the United Kingdom and the European Court of Human Rights when a case was brought before the Court alleging that the service and execution of a particular Anton Piller order amounted to an unjustified interference with the applicants ‘ right to respect for his private and family life , his home and his correspondence ’ under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 13 | The Court of Appeal has the advantage ( if dealing with cases such as these after the trial judge has made the initial decision ; it is difficult to say on the basis of these cases how a trial judge at first instance should approach them . |
| 14 | That had been the first of many occasions when a baby in her care collapsed suddenly and surprisingly , said Mr Goldring . |
| 15 | It is far easier to characterize a madrigal by Morley than it is to sing a song by Byrd , partly because singers respond more intuitively and quickly to Morley 's text-illustrative music than to Byrd 's learned ( but still rhetorical ) polyphonic word-setting , partly because a Morley text will often be a chain of discrete moments where a Byrd text is more complex in syntax and in the connection of its ideas . |
| 16 | In Perkins v Jeffrey [ 1915 ] , 5 KB 702 it was said that evidence could be called to prove a similar course of conduct towards other females where a defence of accident or mistake is put forward . |
| 17 | About two-thirds of the sacks of refuse had gone , and the pit she had seen was as if it had never been , under a litter of dead leaves where a couple of blackbirds foraged . |
| 18 | When I did this course ( in 1988 at Lewisham College ) I went to tutorials for three hours twice a week , at which theory was taught , and we engaged in teaching exercises assessed by our peers and tutors . |
| 19 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 20 | It indicates whether any modules are at the same version but with different contents i.e. a module outside LIFESPAN has been modified but the header has not been updated . |
| 21 | Pragmatics should be much concerned precisely with such mechanisms whereby a speaker can mean more than , or something quite different from , what he actually says , by inventively exploiting communicative conventions . |
| 22 | Three of de Forbin 's remaining ships made a brief appearance in the Moray Firth , about 45 miles [ 72 km ] east of Inverness , where they landed a foraging party , but with these exceptions not a Frenchman set foot on what , since 1707 , could properly be called British soil . |
| 23 | They had graceful , slender bodies , tapering into root-like shapes where a Human would have ankles and feet . |
| 24 | The SEC 's New York office is making informal inquiries into several instances when a share price moved up ahead of a favourable announcement about the restructuring of the company 's debt . |
| 25 | He knows the representation that I made with other colleagues only a fortnight ago . |
| 26 | A local authority may therefore bring proceedings : ( i ) to prevent parents from removing a child accommodated by the local authority under voluntary arrangements where a return home is likely to harm the child significantly ; ( ii ) to protect a child who has been significantly harmed in the past where this is likely to happen again because , for example , a parent is known to abuse in certain recurring circumstances ; ( iii ) to protect a child who has never been harmed where the family history clearly places him at risk , eg a new born or a child reaching an age at which other children in the family have been harmed . |
| 27 | They provide an intermediate level of reasons to which one appeals in normal cases where a need for a decision arises . |
| 28 | Campbell 's survey of London trades in 1747 lists only a handful of female crafts all paid wages well below male trades . |
| 29 | It is noted here because it indicates the increasing dissatisfaction of many Edwardian novelists with the high Victorian ideal of the exclusive ‘ home ’ , despite ( or because of ) the fact that in that period , as Walter Crane observed , ‘ the beautifying of houses , to those to whom it is possible , has become in some cases almost a religion ’ . |
| 30 | Nigel Steen 's body was found in some weeds nearly a mile downstream . |