Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 50 per cent of the little ringed plovers in the UK nest on gravel pits , as do a third of great crested grebes and just under a third of the tufted duck population . |
| 2 | Externally the building ( a Station Master 's two storey house and single storey station building attached ) still had some original features : bargeboards , some finials and also quite a bit of original brown and cream BR(W) paintwork , particularly on the platform side of the house , but most of the wood under the paint had rotted . |
| 3 | If we are reduced to a handful of Scottish Back Benchers and perhaps only a couple of Opposition Scottish Back Benchers on the Standing Committee , that will be deeply resented . |
| 4 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 5 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 6 | Increasingly however , they will have to look to other institutions , sometimes another school but more often a College of F.E. , to provide specialised courses for their students at set times in the week . |
| 7 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 8 | No it 's not just straight heads but like quite a lot of the time it is straight heads . |
| 9 | According to this image , somewhere between ten and thirty men came to arrest Jesus — a Jewish functionary or two , some representatives of the High Priest ( one of whom has his ear injured by Simon Peter 's sword ) , presumably a contingent of the Temple guard , perhaps one or more Roman officials and even perhaps a small unit of Pilate 's soldiery . |
| 10 | It may include three courses taken at the first year level only , or a second double or less frequently a second treble , ie |
| 11 | At the site of the accident Pan Gulf developers have erected a large hoarding which obscures the view of the road for oncoming traffic and almost opposite a local resident has placed large stones on the grass verge to prevent vehicles encroaching onto his property . |
| 12 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 13 | Very often your teacher may ask you to come twice a week for two or three weeks and then once a week for a further period which will vary from pupil to pupil . |
| 14 | Even before 1905 a large minority and probably even a majority of their members were drawn from the lower classes . |
| 15 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |
| 16 | Benzene is possibly a chain with triple bonds or more probably a ring compound with double bonds ( see fig 3.1 ) . |
| 17 | We have considered at length why natural monopoly leads to socially inefficient outcomes : too little output and too high a price in that industry . |
| 18 | This brochure is full of sociable holidays for the hyperactive ; Houseparties are sociable holidays too , but more for people who prefer unusual places , good company , a hefty novel , good food and perhaps just a dabble at watersports . |
| 19 | Moreover , the reliability may mean that a tradesman only sees one example of a particular circuit board each month or even only a couple a year . |
| 20 | Models provide a three dimensional experience and very often a real understanding of the structure . |
| 21 | He uses crack and cocaine and amphetamines , then more crack and more cocaine and perhaps even a speedball to round things off . |
| 22 | The count led them through one of the doors into what was a very beautiful drawing-room and almost immediately a servant came in with refreshments . |
| 23 | Until ten years or so ago a bundle of similar envelopes had lain in a drawer of her desk ; one day in a fit of vigour she had torn them up and thrown them away . |
| 24 | The emperor had begun to think polytheistic cult a veneration of evil spirits and therefore perhaps a danger to his realm . |
| 25 | You know but just perhaps , perhaps occasional help and then maybe a bit later on get more involved . |
| 26 | Yet at Stamford , thirty miles away , not an industrial town but indeed always a market town for a very rich countryside , the market place has shrunk to a fraction of its original size . |
| 27 | Then he whistled several times and very soon a blackbird appeared on the ground in front of him . |
| 28 | Most husbands leave money to support the wife in her declining years and quite possibly a large amount of what he left to her will have disappeared on her death . |
| 29 | Many schools are unlikely , therefore , to be able to offer their pupils as rich an experience of choral singing or as wide a repertoire of religious vocal music , as once they did . |
| 30 | The single , simple reason for the biography 's size is that , in the effort to come up with what , if only for the number of facts it contains , must rank as definitive , Ackroyd has scoured not just every imaginable source but also quite a few unimaginable ones as well . |