Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the detailed factual material learned in the sixth form is forgotten or superseded within a few years . |
| 2 | All anencephalus children are either miscarried , die stillborn , or die within a few weeks of life . |
| 3 | you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared |
| 4 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 5 | To carry out nursing procedures designed to enhance physical and psychological comfort , e.g. lifting or moving into a comfortable positions orientating the patient or answering questions . |
| 6 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
| 7 | Add the margarine or butter and rub in with your hands or blend for a few seconds . |
| 8 | On at least a morning a week at ‘ family specialist ’ hotels , children are collected , given breakfast and taken on a trip or entertained for a few hours so their parents can enjoy a morning on their own . |
| 9 | In the British test-tube baby programme , viable embryos are either implanted or destroyed after a few days . |
| 10 | Some people like to bury their pet wrapped in its blanket , others prefer to use a simple casket which they make themselves or buy from a local undertakers . |
| 11 | There could be a need to check forensic evidence , for example , or to prevent a suspect absconding , or to travel to a far-away police station where the investigation was being conducted , and any of these could take more than a day . |
| 12 | The words soar and dip , weave and bop , like some crazy impromptu syncopation , or reverberate like a low-down blues riff . |
| 13 | Smith , the car 's owner , told magistrates at Eastbourne : ‘ It was just one of those things that happens after a few bevvies . ’ |
| 14 | FLEXIPOP : Brilliant , ahead-of-its-time pop mag that came with a free flexi ( Blondie , The Jam , Adam And The Ants etc ) on the cover . |
| 15 | Rather than focusing on a few substances which are painted in lurid colours , the specialists say , the goal should be a workplace free of compulsive chemical use of all kinds . |
| 16 | CYCLOSPORIN A , a cyclic undecapeptide , is a potent immunosuppressant that binds to a peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase of 165 amino acids , cyclophilin . |
| 17 | The world is a great jewel , a blue and green jewel that shines from a million facets . |
| 18 | There 's also the soft side , the Bill Morrison who is reduced to tears by Harry Secombe — ‘ I 'd love to be as good as him ’ and the Bill Morrison who confesses in an unguarded moment that as an epitaph he 'd like the description that appeared in a recent Times leader about him : ‘ a man they can trust ’ . |
| 19 | Just voices echoing in the dark ; images that burn for a few centuries and then fade ; stories , old stories that sometimes seem to overlap ; strange links , impertinent connections . |
| 20 | It was Desmond who put me on the game — that lasted for a few months , then I got fed up with it . |
| 21 | When Crawford left for London , there was another five weeks ' filming still to do , and that overran by a few days . |
| 22 | The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important . |
| 23 | His soldiers were very fierce and his lettuce garden was surrounded by a deep ditch and guarded by a thousand sentries day and night . |
| 24 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 25 | Dragging with them seventeen unwieldy brass cannon from Edinburgh castle , they took Norham castle on the south bank of the Tweed , and pressed on a few miles to Flodden in Northumberland . |
| 26 | 2 Add the mushrooms and spring onions , then stir in the tomato purée and soured cream and simmer for a few minutes . |
| 27 | This same attitude has underlain much of the industrial conflict during this century , and was to Tawney , and others , a ‘ disgrace even it was explicable in terms of the evils sown and ripened in a 150 years of capitalist morality , ( see Norman Dennis and A. H. Halsey , English Ethical Socialism , Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1988 , p. 163 ) . |
| 28 | Inspired by the arrival of The Beatles to play the guitar , he bought a cheap Harmony electric and a Kalamazoo amp and dabbled for a few years before joining a high school covers band , playing soul , rock and a good deal of Hendrix . |
| 29 | Add peppers and tomatoes and cook for a few minutes , then add the remainder of the vegetables , the marjoram and wine and simmer gently for 30 minutes . |
| 30 | Melt the butter , add the flour and cook for a few seconds , then gradually add the milk , straining it into the roux mixture . |