Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same is true for many other periods ; for instance , coins provide a date for the deposit of the great Viking hoard from Cuerdale in Lancashire of c.AD905 , and this in turn provides a date for the associated objects and hence a pivotal fixed chronological point for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon metalwork . |
| 2 | Rural areas supplied not only agricultural products but also a considerable proportion of manufacturing output . |
| 3 | In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press . |
| 4 | There was the Court of the Myrtles with its pool and lovely arches , the Court of the Lions with fountains of twelve carved lions and over a hundred slender pillars . |
| 5 | MAUREEN ( trying the B set which emits a series of siren-like whoops and then a muffled jazz band ) : It does n't seem particularly easy to get ANY station on the B. |
| 6 | They were particularly vulnerable during their first 12 months and about a third of them did not live to reach the age of 10 . |
| 7 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 8 | His second reputation as one of the 20th century 's most important poets was achieved gradually over 30 years and nearly a thousand poems . |
| 9 | Although the Romans maintained a number of marching camps across the Lowlands such as those at Pennymuir , Roxburgh , and Glenlochar in Kirkcudbrightshire , signal stations on heights such as the Eildon Hills , and sentinel forts substantially reinforced at one time and another , these were subjected to repeated tribal attacks and occasionally a combined assault . |
| 10 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 11 | Although the responses were generally supportive , ‘ practically everybody expressed some reservations and about a third expressed serious reservations about particular features ’ . |
| 12 | We shall see , in fact , that the case for French sources and thus a possible Anglo-Norman bridge is most persuasive and pertinent in respect of the fabliaux in English with what we shall be able to identify as the " earliest " features : Dame Sirith and Chaucer 's Shipman 's Tale . |
| 13 | Obviously there is also the money element , and by returning to work you can perhaps give your child other benefits you might not otherwise be able to afford such as foreign holidays or maybe a private education . |
| 14 | Each abounds in imaginative little surprises — sudden lapses into folk themes or popular dances and even a mock ‘ Turkish ’ episode enliven their finales . |
| 15 | Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that . |
| 16 | Soon after 9 p.m. rally drivers came upon an unexpected road hazard as they steered into the narrow twisting lane — a barricade of wooden benches and almost a dozen seated householders ! |
| 17 | When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words . |
| 18 | You 've got the situation where you 've got remote gears , and you 've got a situation where you , sorry , remote valves , and you 've got a situation when you 've got standard valves and also a small |
| 19 | Martin Lester of Bristol has produced a Boeing 747 Jumbo jet , a Space Shuttle , countless sharks and even a flying Daedalus . |
| 20 | The need for laboratory investigations should be determined by the clinical problems posed by individual patients and only a few tests need be considered as routine ( table III ) . |
| 21 | Debbie uses three ideas common to the science students : one , that science degrees are more useful in enabling students to gain jobs ; two , that a degree is a process of ‘ gaining knowledge ’ which can be applied ; three , that the knowledge gained in a degree such as history can be applied only in limited ways and therefore a limited number of jobs is open to the history graduate . |
| 22 | There are no easy answers but maybe a few guidelines as to what might be happening , for Margaret , staring dry-eyed and forlorn into a new day , and for all the other people who have ever had that sort of feeling . |
| 23 | He gets annual increases but never a big salary jump , which he would if he were promoted . |
| 24 | The result was not only an increase in real wages but also a higher rate of inflation . |
| 25 | In some LDCs people have no faith in financially weak banks and thus a great expansion of bank deposits is prevented . |
| 26 | Painting nearly always fifty years or even a hundred behind the times . |
| 27 | I 've got odd days and then a six week block . |
| 28 | And erm there was half a dozen shops and quite a few , spent most of me life there . |
| 29 | There is more to these pieces than just a virtuosic exterior , though I should add that they are perhaps a great deal more amusing to perform than to listen to ‘ en bloc ’ . |
| 30 | Crusaders , enjoying their low profile these days but still a major threat for the title , are at home to Newry and will have forward John Cleary available again . |