Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days later all the officer cadets were given the opportunity to go to Wolferton station to see the old King 's coffin on its way to London . |
| 2 | I 'm doing different things here all the time ! ’ |
| 3 | As many as seven out of 10 respondents currently own a shower they use at least once a day . |
| 4 | Fifty weeks you know fifty weeks only ten a day is it worth putting a database in for only ten labels . |
| 5 | In the hope of saving 100 lives a year , the law now compels the wearing of seat belts in the back of cars : smoking kills three times as many every day . |
| 6 | In one respect the pre-war pacifists probably under-estimated the importance of the emerging military industrial complex . |
| 7 | They are tiny white worms about half an inch long which look like ‘ threads ’ of white cotton — hence the name — threadworms . |
| 8 | John Davies , professor at Strathclyde University 's Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology , says these studies merely muddy the water . |
| 9 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 10 | It took 11 firemen almost half an hour to bring the blaze under control and bingo players had to be evacuated as smoke seeped into the auditorium of the Mecca Social Club , next door . |
| 11 | However , if we acknowledge that family communications follow a pattern developed over time , and this can be usefully observed and adapted with younger families , is it not reasonable to assume that with older families too such a process could be helpful in some cases ? |
| 12 | At the end of the fifth month the length has grown to around 250 millimetres about half the length of a full-term baby but the weight is still only about a tenth of what it will be at birth . |
| 13 | She keeps two hunters here all the year round as well as the grey and I have n't seen a penny in livery in all of five years . |
| 14 | In fact , the 16 million babies born each year in the rich world will have four times as great an impact on the world 's resources as the 109 million born in the poor world . |
| 15 | A hundred years earlier such an expedient might well have been used to impress envoys from some European state ; but by the later eighteenth century it showed merely that the Indians were exotic visitors from outside the European diplomatic system who might be influenced by such essentially childish devices . |
| 16 | If pre-exposure endows a stimulus with inhibitory properties then such a stimulus should readily come to serve as a CS- since the inhibition already acquired should give a head start . |
| 17 | He had already taken two aspirins about half an hour before and now he took four more . |
| 18 | Tuberculosis strikes around two million children under 5 every year and kills 30,000 . |
| 19 | 8.4 All means possible should be used to raise the level of awareness in the general population by use of the media , providing publicity material for voluntary groups etc 8.5 The SHEG guide " Coping with Dementia — A Handbook for Carers " should be distributed as widely as possible to all carers . |
| 20 | Another crewman , Jim Nalepka , recalls bitter arguments over half a biscuit and confesses to having thoughts about slitting the throat of one of his friends . |