Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dead lucky you were getting in free to see the Olympic Games a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 2 | They claim that the education authority 's official statement of his learning difficulties failed to specify the amount of extra teaching he should have , and that his school was unable to provide the five hours a week one-to-one lessons they believe he needs . |
| 3 | Based on the Teesside Development Corporation 's ‘ renaissance ’ project along the river banks and old docklands , the museum is expected to attract a million visitors a year from its opening in 1995 . |
| 4 | And if they do , are there still people like Chris Hunter to answer a thousand times a day : what have you got for a penny ? |
| 5 | It adds : ‘ The viability of this proposal will need to be further explored with the private sector and others as it is too early at this stage to value the commercial opportunities a road might bring for improved coal and mineral extraction , forestry , recreation and other developments to defray construction costs . ’ |
| 6 | I think we need to give the current players a chance this year . |
| 7 | When I was at school I was so good that I was n't allowed to answer the questions , but had to give the other girls a chance . ’ |
| 8 | Even though his first impressions have not been positive he is prepared to give the new laws a run for their money . |
| 9 | He used his final speech to appeal to voters to give the Liberal Democrats a mandate to ‘ unleash the power of the British people ’ . |
| 10 | This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists . |
| 11 | To give the farcical complications a kick-start , Poiret asks us to believe that a man , finding himself in this predicament , would try to pass the bimbo off as his daughter from a former marriage , and that the girl , required to account for her surprise visit , would blurt out that she was pregnant . |
| 12 | Mr. Gilbert deliberately hung around at closing time to give the three men a chance to go away . |
| 13 | Time to give the old legs a rest on a steep descent into the beautiful Farndale Valley |
| 14 | Several indicated they would be looking to Mr Lawson to give the Tory voters a reason for enduring the pain of higher mortgages . |
| 15 | On the shores of the Blighted Isle the Dark Elf host assembled , determined to deny the High Elves a foothold on the shore . |
| 16 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 17 | There have been suggestions that they might be given state funding , or that some RCD members in the Chamber of Deputies might resign to allow the other parties a look in . |
| 18 | ‘ But in the end they get pushed over ; they just manage to delay the bigger-spending Departments a bit , And they pop up again , good as new , the next time , like a row of skittles . ’ |
| 19 | Now the Child Support Agency says he 'll have to pay a hundred pounds a week . |
| 20 | His plan , he explained , was to become a good enough draughtsman to earn a hundred francs a month and so support himself modestly without assistance . |