Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun pl] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big AGs ( PLCs ) have plenty of ‘ hidden reserves ’ because they are obliged to only reveal ‘ partial ’ operating profits publicly , so there is in fact much more money stashed away for takeovers than a glimpse at corporate balance sheets would suggest . |
| 2 | POLICE appealed yesterday for witnesses after a woman was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted . |
| 3 | POLICE appealed yesterday for witnesses after a woman was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted . |
| 4 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 5 | HUNDREDS of children missed out on trips after a coach firm boycotted 15 Liverpool schools . |
| 6 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 7 | The company is able to dispose freely of assets until a default crystallizes the floating charge , at which time the charge fixes on the assets of the company that are not secured by a fixed charge . |
| 8 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |