Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The field was illuminated by lights fixed to five standards running down one side behind the spectators . |
| 2 | There seemed only one way for the Druids to prevent their imminent destruction , and that was to ensure that the army never came within reach of them ; this could only be achieved either by strong enough resistance in the mountains of north-west Wales or by a serious insurrection deep within the Province . |
| 3 | You might think that the second group find it easier to transition to what is , after all , only one half of the problems they 've been used to cope with aboard their twins . |
| 4 | During his long stay in the south he made only one portrait with an out-of-doors setting ; the pretty shopkeeper , sitting on a chair in front of her shop , looking out with uncomprehending suspicion against a white wall . |
| 5 | Only one strand of the linkers ligated to the cDNA and the single strand gap was repaired with Taq polymerase prior to amplification . |
| 6 | It was , similarly , only one strand in the ideas of many in the Royal Society . |
| 7 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 8 | Budgeting techniques are only one solution to the problems of the health service . |
| 9 | FINALLY REMEMBER There is only one criterion for the decisions a PROFITBOSS makes : will it make profit ? |
| 10 | From Pokrovsk railway lines ran in three directions through famine areas , but in January 1922 there were only one locomotive in the yards , and that took up to seventeen days to cover less than 150 miles . |
| 11 | It is , indeed , one of the most telling arguments against the broadcasting of the proceedings of Parliament that by shedding the spotlight on only one facet of the functions of Parliament it misrepresents its role in a quite grotesque fashion . |
| 12 | He shows the Captain where Garvey had been stung by a Varga thorn , a venomous biological creation found on only one planet in the skies … |
| 13 | Hours of work are only one aspect of the conditions of employment : holidays , sick pay , the provision of pension schemes , penalties for lateness at work and so on are other conditions that reflect occupational inequality . |
| 14 | Only one descendant of the conquistadors now runs a genuine , old-fashioned Latin American absolutism . |
| 15 | Losing these international galleries has converted ARCO into a local fair with exactly one half of the exhibitors being drawn from Madrid , Barcelona , Valencia , Palma de Mallorca and other Spanish cities . |
| 16 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 17 | NEARLY 400 cattle were auctioned in just one hour without the animals , vendors or buyers going off to market when the first sale of fat stock by satellite television went on screen . |
| 18 | Stewart made just one error with the gloves on a day of sweat and toil — failing to hold a difficult leg-side catch offered by Aravinda DeSilva on 74 off Devon Malcolm — but also impressed with the handling of his bowlers . |
| 19 | Stewart made just one error with the gloves on a day of sweat and toil — failing to hold a difficult leg-side catch offered by Aravinda DeSilva on 74 off Devon Malcolm — but also impressed with the handling of his bowlers . |
| 20 | He had just one line in The Commitments but he 'll do a thousand more tonight . |
| 21 | But the argument might as well be put the other way round : his inability to formulate counterfactuals is just one consequence of the difficulties attendant Upon a theory of such scope and grandiloquent abstraction . |
| 22 | Let me cite just one example of the consequences of this phenomenon . |
| 23 | This discussion of family types based on Todd 's stimulating , if somewhat controversial and iconoclastic , writings provides just one example of the variations between places in social organization of inter-personal relationships outside the ‘ world of work ’ . |
| 24 | For teddy 's friend knit the same pattern in reverse leaving just one stitch between the noses ; position the mistletoe centrally above the bears . |
| 25 | This permits subdivisions which are enumerated under one subject in the schedules to be used in other specified parts of the schedules , as instructed . |
| 26 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
| 27 | Nearly one quarter of the divorces in 1989 involved a second or subsequent divorce for one or both partners ( Table 4 ) . |
| 28 | That could result in the redesignation of about 60 p.c. of the bonds as ‘ A ’ debt . |
| 29 | However , if the advice you 've just read triggered off even one thought along the lines of ‘ Oh , I must remember that ’ then it has served its purpose by breaking the myth that all there is to electronic publishing is a piece of software and that anyone can use it . |
| 30 | To accept the truth of these accounts is a simple but giant step , and one which the academic and professional community is by its own self-definition incapable of taking : a social group which bases its very existence on its own claims to cleverness would risk its life if it opened even one ear to the voices of fools and heretics , especially when the topic itself is about foolishness in the form of ‘ learning difficulties ’ . |