Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The consequences to any patient-nurse relationship once a nurse allowed that could be as disastrous , if more excusable , as when bullying took place the other way round . |
| 32 | Parents of young children with the lung disease cystic fibrosis , like 3 year old Poppy Roberts , have to give their children intensive physiotherapy twice a day to keep their lungs clear of congestion . |
| 33 | It also fashioned an improved operational instrument for ministerial use to buy time and to distribute scarce resources once a dispute started . |
| 34 | But over the succeeding weeks only a handful came out the rest chose to stay . |
| 35 | I saw the major-domo turn away a couple weighed down with medal ribbons and jewels , while admitting a fat young man in a greasy fez and ragged robe . |
| 36 | Twenty-five years ago a fire swept through the core of a pile manufacturing plutonium at Windscale , The row still rages . |
| 37 | Accommodation was plentiful at Cecilia Darne 's house where all those years ago a bomb had blown the windows out . |
| 38 | Neville who oversees the zany stock-takes once a week keeps a watchful eye on the joke , gag novelty market . |
| 39 | Five months later a device exploded in the Macdonalds restsurant in the town . |
| 40 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 41 | Fifteen years later a treaty ended French frontier controversies with the city-republic of Geneva , while in 1760 another signed in Turin ( which incorporated a series of eight maps ) greatly simplified in the same way France 's south-eastern frontier . |
| 42 | Five yards away a woman sat almost in profile , a white towelling robe easy on her shoulders . |
| 43 | These tensions took specific political form in the tensions between Fabianism and New Liberalism ; the former being essentially a movement founded on ideas of organization and efficiency and the latter projecting a specific moral dimension as an emancipatory movement . |
| 44 | There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non-coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . |
| 45 | Twenty minutes later a taxi arrived . |
| 46 | and er I 've discussed this before and I 've come to the conclusion that these children who come along with Jehovah 's Witnesses knocking on your door they 're more affected than any child once a year practising whatever you like to call it Halloween or whatever . |
| 47 | Then several years later a gunman appeared in front of him : ‘ A man stood there , four feet away and fired a gun at me . |
| 48 | Several years ago a man working the beach not far from Happisburgh spotted what looked like a hunk of dull yellow glass lying on the sand . |
| 49 | In terms of advice , what future plans does the company have for this particular model i.e. a school does not wish to buy a microcomputer which will not be compatible with the next range of microcomputers produced by that company . |
| 50 | For many of us , working as a group to make the East End Open Studios even a success has been a rare chance to cooperate rather than compete with other artists . |
| 51 | And why is why is going upside down for two minutes twice a day gon na make it grow again ? |
| 52 | The fundamental requirements of good management in cleaning are the same as in any other work namely a manager needs to : |
| 53 | Two weeks later a Jaguar crashed into the sea off Nairn , though the pilot ejected in time . |
| 54 | Two weeks later a letter arrived from the solicitors for the archdiocese providing the assurance that we sought . |
| 55 | Last season they won the junior Grand Slam and overwhelmed England 32–3 at Fylde , while two years ago a side containing Scott Gibbs and Neil Jenkins won 12–6 at Wrexham . |
| 56 | But the past could raise its head in other ways , he realized , when two days later a letter arrived with a London postmark , bringing him news of the most extraordinary nature . |
| 57 | ‘ Two days later a letter appeared in the Signal ( signed ‘ Fiat Justitia ’ ) suggesting that Denry , as some reward for his public spirit , ought to be the next mayor of Bursley . ’ |
| 58 | Two days later a bomb exploded in an SLA controlled village , killing the mayor . |
| 59 | Two days later a horse-and-cart pulled up in Page Street and an elderly man with a shock of ginger hair sticking out from both sides of his battered trilby stepped down and knocked at Aggie 's front door . |
| 60 | Four years ago a couple began work on a garden to be laid out on the site of an old country house . |