Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | meeting with the Education Department and Senior English Inspector once a year to account ( financially ) for what we are doing and to try to bargain for what we might get next year … |
| 2 | Soak your nails in warm olive oil once a week to keep them in good condition . |
| 3 | At this stage nearly a month had elapsed since the watercolour , so it was important to return to the first study to establish some kind of modus operandi for the oil . |
| 4 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 5 | Some time later a creditor did succeed in having him removed to a sponging house , where friends subscribed £500 to make life more bearable for him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The fundamental requirements of good management in cleaning are the same as in any other work namely a manager needs to : |
| 14 | The agents who remained operated a skeleton service for several constituencies , with the salary shared out too ; they visited each office once a week to answer letters and transact routine business ; the Annual Report for the Yorkshire Area for 1916–17 claimed " we still say no offices entirely closed " but this was no longer a realistic picture of party activity . |
| 15 | He was due to be released on conditional bail last night once a surety had been produced . |