Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [coord] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you hear it said that we are going to live with stable currencies or even with a single currency for Europe ; that recovery will be slow ; that inflation will stay down while interest rates stay up — poison for precious metals . |
| 2 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 3 | It is true that employee numbers have been reduced by around an eighth over the last few years but only as a by-product of the printer 's massive £130m capital investment programme . |
| 4 | First in the attention it will pay to historical processes and secondly in a focus on the relationship between work and the household . |
| 5 | From Highways Department — Shared Use Cycle Tracks , Baberton from the eastern side of Baberton Mains Loan and extending east and south east for a distance of 175 metres or thereby to a point immediately north of 8 , Baberton Crescent . |
| 6 | unc unc A metre is about 39.4 inches or slightly over a yard in length . |
| 7 | It is probably not accurate to regard the employer 's duty as a series of separate obligations but rather as a single duty to take reasonable care for the safety of employees . |
| 8 | We began on a genuinely interdisciplinary basis with students taking , in effect , a series of one-term course units sometimes leading to joint honours but usually to a major-minor combination . |
| 9 | packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it . |
| 10 | It 's alw always very useful that er erm if we have to people have to ask us to wait around for them for five or six weeks or sometimes on a three monthly er er resignation thing it er |
| 11 | At some stages in their lives children are quite convinced that they have magical powers and often after a tussle about bedtime or a rejected request to watch a TV programme will ‘ wish ’ that the irritating adult would vanish . |
| 12 | ‘ The next parliament will not serve merely as a forum for making political statements but rather as a national institute in which we will all take part in formulating the country 's policies , ’ he said on television before leaving on a three-nation tour as part of Middle East peace efforts . |
| 13 | We reached the Tower through Poor Jewry , passing the house of the Crutched Friars and then through a postern gate which stands near Hog Street . |
| 14 | Greater and lesser frequency existed in about equal proportions , but nearly twice as many of this married population had intercourse only once a week , or less often , than had intercourse three times or more in a week . |
| 15 | Districts rely not only on these plans but also on a range of nonstatutory documents , including development control policy notes , design guides , development briefs , informal local plans and ‘ policy frameworks . ’ |
| 16 | In the early years about 50% of aircrew going through the course were National Servicemen who would only serve some three months or so on a squadron before their commitment was ended . |
| 17 | And although it is not clear what was meant by ‘ real ’ crime , it is evident that certain kinds of common theft , damage and injury were regarded as wholly commonplace in pre-war years and hardly worth a moment 's thought . |
| 18 | While capitalist states elsewhere have had to deal with high levels of inflation , balance of payment crises , low productivity and increasing demands put on State expenditure , Britain has had to respond not only to these problems but also to a decline in its manufacturing base : profits from industry have not gone back in sufficient volume to sustain the long-term investment in new technology that Britain has needed . |
| 19 | Data can be passed between these programs but only in a limited way through a copy buffer . |
| 20 | Middle- or upper-class grief is hidden under controlled facial muscles or even under a black veil , as with members of the royal family . |
| 21 | There are , finding fifty hectares or thereabouts for a development of this kind and characteristic out of the districts ' allocations on the one hand in their geography , you know that has to be broadly speaking within the existing settlement pattern on the other , not possible . |
| 22 | I have seen him as Grimes many times and never without a sense of embarrassment that this finely sensitive singer should have been asked to adopt a vicious role alien to him . |
| 23 | When they meet one another , they gingerly caress each other 's long legs and only after a great deal of hesitation do they come to closer quarters . |
| 24 | Such an event might be theft , fire , illness or even death ; within the next year , the next many years or even within a lifetime . |
| 25 | In recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the importance of training for staff at all levels in libraries of all kinds but apart from a circular letter sent out by The Library Association in 1976 , and two publications on the subject , one in 1977 and another in 1978 , there have been no systematic attempts to assess overall provision of training in the UK . |
| 26 | Move forward seventy years or so to a different household in another part of France . |
| 27 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 28 | I returned with some spectacularly horrible photos of the country 's many problems but also with a good many showing Czechoslovakia 's stunning beauty . |
| 29 | Full-time college programmes will still be available at all levels but instead of a trainee attending a course leading to an examination set by the college or by one of the existing examination bodies , the programme will comprise training and NVQ assessment , with the award of an NVQ qualification at the appropriate level if the trainee is successful . |
| 30 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |