Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
| 2 | We can also recognise a letter , character or figure from just a part of the whole , or even a collection of dots that approximate what the letter should look like . |
| 3 | Depending on the shape and condition of the butt , Klondyke would expect to extract around seven 2″ straps from the average hide , allowing for nicks or marks from where an animal might have grazed or cut itself , when a scar will show on the leather . |
| 4 | Formed to fill a long-standing local need , ‘ Cheshire Lines ’ is the culmination of some years of suggestions and discussions by quite a number of railway enthusiasts in the Stockport area . |
| 5 | They did not like Vine , recognizing that the Major despised them as a lumpen , dull ugly mass , but the men themselves knew better ; they were Wellington 's infantry , the finest of the best , and they were marching east and south to where a pall of gun-smoke was forming like a dark cloud over a far crossroads and to where the guns cleared their throats to beckon men to battle . |
| 6 | Horrific to behold , with a matted crop of weeds for hair and feet turned backwards , the bunyip has a crocodile 's tail and the head and torso of either an emu , bandicoot or malevolent man . |
| 7 | Revocation and amendment of both an obligation and a right are treated in tandem in Article 37 . |
| 8 | It 'll take Bernard and Megan at least a year and a half to make all 59 of the instruments . |
| 9 | Nevertheless there is little doubt that in the cases of Frederick and Joseph at least a feeling that an enlightened ruler ought to be above merely personal and family considerations , that it was his duty to sacrifice them ruthlessly on the altar of the State , was a factor in their behaviour to their own blood relations . |
| 10 | She struggled with her anger and guilt for nearly a year , and had gradually resolved these feelings . |
| 11 | THE FIRST regular steam-hauled passenger services over the old Great Central Route between Quainton Road and Aylesbury for over a quarter of a century were run on August 30 . |
| 12 | With you have to be organised and book at least a week ahead for the train you want . |
| 13 | I was at Leeds and Newcastle for just a year and you did n't have time to get your boots dirty . ’ |
| 14 | It is appropriate at this stage , having considered the formation and structure of both a partnership and a company , to compare and contrast these two business structures . |
| 15 | During the hot summers I 've had a lot of lettuce and tomato with maybe a bit of fruit . |
| 16 | Realistic prices are still hard to find in the land market , according to a would-be farm purchaser whose quests for a viable farm has taken up most of his time and energy for over a year . |
| 17 | I never caught one in those days of the sixties and seventies myself , though pound to nearly a pound and a half fish graced my net often enough . |
| 18 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |