Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 2 | I 've been into this look for quite a while now , I know the rules . |
| 3 | Alternatively a rule might be long and particular , such as detailed rules on how an order slip or trading card is to be completed . |
| 4 | It can therefore vary from every few minutes to once a year but I usually begin with once a day . |
| 5 | The results can take from a few hours to over a week , depending on where you go to be tested . |
| 6 | Launching himself form the top of a massive 300 foot crane , Nigel plunged towards the ground at high speed with only a bungee ( a strong rope made of rubber encased by a purpose-designed braiding ) stopping him from eating his words . |
| 7 | He continued to hide this condition for almost a week , until he collapsed during a break in rehearsals , and was rushed to hospital . |
| 8 | Virgin Records was no longer the small , struggling outsider with only a handful of artists , but an established and thriving company , vying competitively with the likes of Island and Chrysalis — and , what 's more , they now had a newly-established office in America . |
| 9 | A meeting of the International Coffee Council was held in London on Sept. 27 , but ended by voting only to renew the International Coffee Agreement for a further 12 months without either an export quota system ( suspended in July 1989 — see p. 36836 ) or price support mechanisms . |
| 10 | She jumped out and ran the few feet to where a man was struggling out of his jeep , which had tipped onto one side with the two left wheels suspended above the open gully . |
| 11 | Firms from the Netherlands have increased their ownership of British subsidiaries by nearly a quarter . |
| 12 | Do n't slip into your racing shoes until around an hour before the start ; a comfortable pair of well-worn trainers will suffice for now . |
| 13 | That plan must rest , in the first place , on an audit , and in its advice to governors , heads and teachers ( DES 1989e ) the School Development Plans Project ( SDPP ) gave some ideas about how a school would undertake that . |
| 14 | It is simply a high step-up with scarcely a hold for the left hand . |
| 15 | Or there is the Amaretto Liquer Gateau ( £3.25 ) , a light cake with just a hint of naughtiness about it . |
| 16 | The tide is low and someone points excitedly into the clear water to where a couple of large sea-urchins are making their sedate way along the rock-face . |
| 17 | So there 's a reciprocal relationship with quite a number of schools in this area of a rather novel and to us extremely helpful and rewarding kind . |
| 18 | And then erm they eggs would be in this incubator for about a week and then they used to arrange coops for them to go out do you see , we used to fence a field below the mansion , , in the field there , because there was a good in enclosure right round the two drives and then there were shelter you see . |
| 19 | Their former Serbian neighbours of just a week ago have also left , streaming in the opposite direction across the Drina into Serbia . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , start-up Echo Logic , the Bell Labs Inc spin-off being funded by AT&T Ventures Corporation , the phone company 's venture arm , has announced a pact with Apple Computer Inc that it 's apparently had in its back pocket for over a year . |
| 21 | Start-up Echo Logic , the Bell Labs Inc spin-off being funded by AT&T Ventures Corporation , the phone company 's venture arm , last week announced a pact with Apple Computer Inc that it 's apparently had in its back pocket for over a year . |
| 22 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 23 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
| 24 | One is to convey some sense of where a child is in the process of learning ; the other is to make easier the analysis of results from groups of children . |
| 25 | For it 's no use looking to this novel for even a premonition of a cleansed Russia sitting at the feet of Jesus . |
| 26 | By contrast , the Conservatives have been able to raise public spending by nearly a quarter in real terms . |
| 27 | The hazards involved in this operation , the pollution to the environment , the problem of safeguarding the plutonium , and the extremely high costs mean that reprocessing is carried out on a commercial scale by only a handful of other nuclear nations , most notably France and the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | If she eased up on this will for just a moment , love would fly away like a bird released from its cage . |
| 29 | A fall in the real wage rate from w 1 to w 2 results in both a rise in the notional demand for labour to and a rise in the notional supply of output to Y 2 . |
| 30 | He would be treated to the kind of service his carrier is struggling to achieve and might even pick up a few tips on how an airline should be run . |