Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Jael Otis Ann Ryder was born at 6.30am on Saturday , February 16 , weighing in at a bounding 10lbs 10oz . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She would in fact be taking over from a male contracts officer who would be leaving the company in four months ' time . |
| 8 | The value of the credit tapers off above a certain earnings level , and disappears just above $20,000 a year . |
| 9 | A GROUP of 60 securities specialists brought together by the Royal Bank of Scotland will propose the phased introduction of a three-day , rolling securities-settlement system and the setting up of an institutional shares clearing house . |
| 10 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 11 | We do actually cover up to a thousand pounds parts and labour with a wide range of cover across the board . |
| 12 | Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour . |
| 13 | In summer the reedbeds resound to the songs of reed and sedge warblers , and in spring up to a dozen bitterns boom mysteriously from the reeds . |
| 14 | The sponsorship deal between the school and the film company was set up by a former Downs School pupil , who now manages the Phoenix Cinema . |
| 15 | Secure on her own ground ( she 's locked the door from the inside and pocketed the key ) , Anya cuts the cords binding Riva 's wrists and ankles , and slips the gun back into a gangsterish shoulder-holster straight out of a B-movie props department . |
| 16 | In The Observer , a normally wise and balanced political commentator outlined a vision of what the English countryside might become if abandoned to nature , which was like something out of a Dark Ages bestiary , a nightmarish waste of swamp and scrub , thick with rats , disease and the remains of derelict farm machinery . |
| 17 | Drawing back the curtains , he saw a pair of men in blue overalls get out of a black police car , open the gates to the yard and give a mock salute as the driver and his passenger drove in . |
| 18 | 60 hours of language improvement , and 91 on Language in Education were offered , out of an unspecified methods total . |
| 19 | He 'll be out in a few years time . |
| 20 | So all them hassles what you 're gon na get in the future when they they 're gon na fall out in a few years time . |
| 21 | His country still insist he must turn out in an African Nations Cup qualifier against South Africa rather than the televised curtain-raiser at the City ground . |
| 22 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 23 | But towards the end of our stay in Kuwait , the rules were relaxed , and we were allowed out to a nearby sports stadium to exercise for an hour every day . |
| 24 | FIGHTS break out at a Black Rights demonstration in Euston , London . |
| 25 | I did that because I got an amazing about of money and to be honest I rather liked the idea of swanning around in a special effects car . |