Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eleven o'clock a group of children came over the hill . |
| 2 | Children with special needs have long been welcomed into playgroups or mother and toddler groups but members have tended to worry on two counts — first , that only a minority of families with children with special needs were finding their way to playgroup , and second that the playgroup was not fully able to meet the children 's needs . |
| 3 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |
| 4 | After that only a matter of confidence . |
| 5 | It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately . |
| 6 | Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ? |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the print echo is only active whilst the CLI indicator is present , so this not a lot of use to us ! |
| 8 | is this not a recipe for disaster ? |
| 9 | ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards . |
| 10 | He followed this up a couple of years later with Sophie 's Choice opposite Meryl Streep . |
| 11 | Joint communiqués were signed on the establishment of diplomatic relations ( i ) with China on Sept. 30 following a visit to Beijing by a Brunei delegation on Sept. 8-11 ; and ( ii ) with the Soviet Union on Oct. 1 in New York . |
| 12 | Funny how a thread of dialogue at one table can silence a roomful of people , is n't it ? |
| 13 | I have used this quite a lot for cardigans for an elderly lady , who was a bit of a traditionalist and would not have tuck stitch , in which the ‘ wrong ’ purl ) side is used as the right side . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that this is crucial to the development of the disease state , as application of amiloride by aerosol alleviates the decline in lung function in CF. It is not yet clear how a loss of CFTR function leads to this increase in sodium absorption . |
| 15 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |
| 16 | There followed a short lull , but from 1620 onwards a succession of attacks by small formations of S.79s commenced but all were successfully beaten off , mainly by the intense gunfire of the ships , although Yellow Section of 808 Squadron , two Fulmars flown by Lt. A.T.J. Kindersley and Lt. Hay , R.M. , caught one bomber at 1710 and claimed it shot down . |
| 17 | Thus in 1802 when a group of spahis called on the Serbs to join them in resisting the dayis very few Serbs responded . |
| 18 | This protracted crisis began on 17 March 1808 when a mob of soldiers , peasants , and palace grooms forced Charles IV to dismiss Godoy , found hiding in terror in a rolled-up carpet ; two days later another mob forced Charles IV to abdicate in favour of his son , the Prince of Asturias who became Ferdinand VII . |
| 19 | This information will usually make it clear why a class of share has been classified as equity or non-equity , but if necessary additional information should be given to explain the classification . |
| 20 | It 's probably , maybe member 's ignorance that they do n't know that , that already a lot of work has been done on it . |
| 21 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 22 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 23 | By 2040 only a handful of currency dealers remained , huddled in tatty offices in Tirana and Ulan Bator , trading the lek against the tugrik . |
| 24 | ‘ They made it official just a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 25 | Devlin scored the second after a number of scrums , free kicks and penalties all close to the line , and in injury time John Paul Speirs touched down to ensure victory . |
| 26 | The fatal accident occurred on 5th December 1898 when a fall of earth trapped George Robinson against a tipping wagon , breaking his back . |
| 27 | Then at about three o'clock a fleet of barges armed with cannon and muskets prepared for a sham attack on Pocklington 's Island . |
| 28 | savings and the use of these quite a lot of priorities . |
| 29 | In practice , many of the fossil fronds that one finds are sterile , and for these there a number of form genera , units of classification based on the shape of the fronds alone ( see p. 23 ) . |
| 30 | Copyhold was by inheritance in thirteen out of twenty-five Buckinghamshire manors surveyed in the reigns of Edward VI and Mary ; on two there were lifeholds only , and at three either a term of years or tenure at will ; six had a medley of all modes . |