Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [noun pl] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though Windows NT has not yet been released , 37% of the 1,000 or so participants in a Dun survey at UniForum believe NT will offer benefits not yet available under Unix . |
| 2 | This is usually done by a guillotine that cuts back a bundle of a dozen or so plants at a time , and it is not unusual to find the cut ends chopped and bruised rather roughly . |
| 3 | Because FM waves travel only 60 or so miles from a transmitter , they provide essentially a local pool of sound . |
| 4 | Recommendation ( ix ) calls upon local offices and the Department of Social Security to give higher priority to those entering residential care to make sure that their claims for income support are processed in good time so that people do not have weeks of worry or possibly weeks in a home without paying . |
| 5 | No one must own any horse other than a work horse ; arms were forbidden ; informers were planted in every community to report on breaches of regulations or even suspicions about a man 's trade or lack of it ; and in all cases of doubt , summary hanging was in order . |
| 6 | Short wavelengths are measured in millionths of a metre ( 10 -6 ; m or micrometre , m ) or even billionths of a metre ( 10 -9 ; m or nanometre , nm ) . |
| 7 | Education must , at all costs , eschew all tendencies or even appearances of a commitment to the maintenance and reproduction of the unjust social order and undemocratic value system to the overthrow of which we sacrificed so much in the struggle . |
| 8 | This could involve an adjournment for legal aid application , social welfare report , referral to another solicitor , bail application or simply suggestions for a plea in mitigation . |
| 9 | A stepper motor is a very special type of motor that only rotates by a fraction of a turn for each pulse of power that is applied . |
| 10 | The pictures Elizabeth took that day have become more than just snaps of a holiday that turned to horror . |
| 11 | He has the personal directive of the King to develop the tourist-appeal of the site and already talks of a helicopter pad and a VIP 's ‘ cave ’ on one of the mountain summits . |
| 12 | But in an eleventh-hour move late on Friday afternoon — and just hours after a query about the situation from this column — VAT headquarters agreed to consider a new interpretation of the rules . |
| 13 | At present , transaction processing systems and monitors can only swap files — new capabilities in Tuxedo will likely address the ability to process transactions and even parts of a transaction in a CICS/6000 environment . |
| 14 | Walesa claimed that this threatened to confuse people and to produce an indecisive parliament of many small parties , and apparently preferred a system where voters would choose a party first and then candidates from a party list . |
| 15 | Walesa said that this would lead to a fragmented and weak parliament and that he preferred a system in which voters would choose a party first and then candidates from a party list . |
| 16 | The electorate , for its part , no longer votes on the basis of the calibre of the candidates , but rather votes for a programme of policies and for the party which they wish to see form a government over the next 5 years . |
| 17 | This is the key domain of the calculating , rationalist attitude , obsessed with time , which sees other individuals as merely partners in a transaction , rather than individuals in their own right . |