Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy had her serious office-work glasses on and a sheaf of papers . |
| 2 | The journey ended , six days on and a world of difference at Chepstow Bridge , just below the walls of the castle . |
| 3 | John twitched his great shoulders as if a wasp had landed on them . |
| 4 | In other cases , individual workers made their own judgements about whether a person was likely to benefit from the care programme approach . |
| 5 | Steam rose here and there , not in puffy , damp , friendly clouds as if a kettle was boiling , but in hissing , angry spurts , as if some unseen being was venting its spleen . |
| 6 | I was on 1,000 grams of that a day , now I 'm on 187 , so although I 'm still on medication it 's a very minute amount of medication to what I was on before , and I 'm existing on that , so for me it 's worked . |
| 7 | In these cases one never finds a whole tree fossilized , and it is necessary to piece together the whole plant by making intelligent guesses about whether a frond of one kind is persistently found with a particular fossil trunk . |