Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These documents demonstrate a commitment to developing broadly based , open political agitation , but they contain little about a civil rights strategy in the north ; such a strategy could be deduced from the analysis which they contain , but the documents give no indication that it had been proposed in any detail . |
| 2 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 3 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 4 | This is because many intending EFL teachers have already obtained QTS ( perhaps through a modern languages PGCE ) and are now looking for an ‘ add-on ’ EFL qualification ; others may have decided that they want to work in a context ( usually adult education in Britain or overseas ) where QTS is not necessary or appropriate . |
| 5 | He is also extremely wealthy , and personally worth an additional Pounds 50m , thanks to the cash he raked in during the roaring 80s . |
| 6 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 7 | In fact , the whole programme had an unsually philosophical undercurrent ( quoting , for example , philosopher Mary Midgeley ) — so much so that it sometimes seemed less like a current affairs report than an enquiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to nature . |
| 8 | Letter packets , Small Packets and Printed Papers with contents valued over £270 : Top portion of green label CI together with a non-adhesive customs declaration form , C2/CP3 ( PP70 ) , plus an accompanying despatch note CP2 should be completed . |
| 9 | Or is it more likely to be so affected by nationalism and the historical preferences of its peoples that it will remain a heterogeneous collection of individual markets linked together in a loose customs union ? |
| 10 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 11 | ‘ Jael Otis Ann Ryder was born at 6.30am on Saturday , February 16 , weighing in at a bounding 10lbs 10oz . ’ |
| 12 | One thinks of the stories of child muggers bearing sharp knives , driven below by a greater police presence upstairs , of the Underground ‘ acid fiend ’ who squirts hydrochloric acid on people 's legs before making his escape , of steamers , hip-hop-styled persons perpetrating economy-sized thefts . |
| 13 | It was here in 1911 , for instance , that the ruthless , reforming Russian First Minister Peter Stolypin was gunned down by a Jewish police agent in full view of the Tsar , at a gala opera night . |
| 14 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 15 | The august meeting of the Herts and District Metal Detection Society , while not up to its usual high attendance , owing to many people managing to get away for a few weeks holiday , still managed to attract forty-five members . |
| 16 | He was also convicted of having possession with intent to endanger life of a cache of explosives and arms found at another house five doors away during a simultaneous police search . |
| 17 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
| 18 | A BEWILDERED 10-year-old boy was left to wander the streets for hours after being turned away from a police-run sports centre . |
| 19 | She would in fact be taking over from a male contracts officer who would be leaving the company in four months ' time . |
| 20 | The meeting with Mr Terreblanche — ‘ ET ’ as he is popularly known — is seen more as a public relations gesture than a meaningful initiative . |
| 21 | Is that not the best case ever for a clear promotions policy ? |
| 22 | AN OIL worker appeared from custody at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday after a 44-hour police operation at a country cottage in Aberdeenshire . |
| 23 | No , I wa I was , er er I I was thinking anyway , that it was n't exactly like that , it 's more like a Forty Minutes type thing . |
| 24 | The value of the credit tapers off above a certain earnings level , and disappears just above $20,000 a year . |
| 25 | You know if it 's a once in a hundred years event , is it worthwhile providing all the backup equipment you 've got , for all the stations that you 've got . |
| 26 | The software includes a terminal emulator that integrates Unix applications with Windows by supporting MS Windows Dynamic Data Exchange to transfer data from a Unix session directly to a running Windows application . |
| 27 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 28 | This raises the possibility of an administrative role for Kenchester , perhaps initially as a pagus centre , and then later as a full civitas centre . |
| 29 | Shipping , manufacturing and marketing operations also did well , but the chemicals division reported a loss , partly through a deteriorating petrochemicals market hit by surplus European ethylene capacity . |
| 30 | Temporarily for a few years trains could use that Thameslink line . |