Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking out a patent can bring the inventor quite a fortune . |
| 2 | You could give a computer quite a headache with an NP-complete puzzle . ’ |
| 3 | Within hours of this US response , which Iraq 's ruling Revolution Command Council denounced as " disgraceful " , the Soviet Union tried to rescue its peace initiative by announcing that Aziz ( who was still in Moscow ) had agreed to a revised six-point peace plan whereby ( i ) Iraq would agree to comply with Resolution 660 ; ( ii ) withdrawal from Kuwait would begin the day after a ceasefire ; ( iii ) the withdrawal would be completed within 21 days , including withdrawal from Kuwait City within four days ; ( iv ) once the withdrawal had been completed all relevant UN Security Council resolutions would lapse ; ( v ) all prisoners of war would be released three days after a ceasefire ; and ( vi ) monitoring of the ceasefire would be carried out by observers or peacekeeping forces as determined by the UN Security Council . |
| 4 | It meant that locals could take out an annual seven-day family membership for just £480 — a mere snip , and that the town school could use the pool once a week , free . |
| 5 | I 'd quite like a boy then a girl . |
| 6 | If you do not use an object once a day , or at least once a week , it does not deserve prime storage space ( that is within easy reach and somewhere between knee and eye level ) . |
| 7 | The former timetable will resume the day after a decision on whether to refer the offer is announced . |
| 8 | That brings us to quarter past ten , I suspect that there 's , tea and coffee 's out there then , and if it is , I think we 'll have the break just a bit earlier , and then we can get into it when . |
| 9 | I did have a man only a month ago with an axe injury , a seven-inch depressed fracture of the parietal bone and extensive extradural haemorrhage . |
| 10 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 11 | But she must attend a clinic twice a week . |
| 12 | This sequence will take an engine around a week and there follows the formal inspection stage where all of the parts are assessed and courses of action initiated . |
| 13 | you know , and er you just did n't er you just did n't have er er y you may get a cinema once a week , or perhaps a dance once a week , but that er that wa that was the limit , you know . |
| 14 | From then on you will receive a statement twice a year — in May and November — detailing how your investment has performed . |
| 15 | He said bankruptcy laws should allow a company just a year to restructure debts or get out of business . |
| 16 | By contrast , if a decision is to be made about whether a pupil is to pass or fail an examination then a boundary would have to be set . |
| 17 | If you should find the cottage more a liability than you had envisaged then we can perhaps talk business in the future . |