Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her entire knowledge of what he had to do to earn his crust amounted to not a row of beans . |
| 2 | A light came on whenever a subject paused for longer than 600 milliseconds , although subjects were merely told that the light indicated when their story-telling was poor . |
| 3 | If the wind died for just a moment ; if she could just get a clear sight of the cockpit … |
| 4 | The years of abundance in America began in 1950 with the defence expenditure triggered off by the Korean War , and the boom continued with only a hiccup or two of recession in 1954 and 1958 . |
| 5 | Divisional Fire Officer Paul Gaze said at least a pint of petrol may have been used to fuel the fire . |
| 6 | Medical evidence described other substantial injuries , including a double spinal fracture inflicted at least a day earlier . |
| 7 | The growth of the colonies was likely to force new departures in policy and legislation on the British government ; the American population rose from about a quarter of a million at the beginning of the century to about two million by 1776 . |
| 8 | A member of the Woman 's Royal Army Corps and a passer-by were injured on Feb. 20 when an IRA bomb fell from underneath a van and exploded in Leicester city centre . |
| 9 | Since India 's population grew by nearly a quarter over that period , this means that about 80m people managed to clamber above the poverty line in a decade . |
| 10 | The major setback to profits came in Sears ' footwear division , about 40 per cent of total profits , where the trading surplus fell by almost a quarter to £31.6m . |
| 11 | In fact , Royal Oak equalised after only a minute when Finch 's cross came to Clinton Ford who scored with a snap shot . |
| 12 | The strike lasted for virtually a year , ending in April 1985 . |
| 13 | I 'd have felt so much better if this person had at least a year 's sentence . |
| 14 | For Draper , the principle of expanding only into related fields , where Virgin had at least a margin of experience and expertise , was sacrosanct . |
| 15 | The surface of the water had a slick , glassy look about it and Carey 's cast disappeared with barely a splash . |
| 16 | Clearly , then , Professor Usher remains convinced that the baby had at least an 80% chance of survival , and that Leonard Arthur did prescribe the drug with the intention of causing the child 's death , especially in view of Dr Arthur 's comments on his philosophical attitude to this type of situation . |
| 17 | But the illness lingered for over a year , and in the end the doctor decided that she must be suffering from depression . |
| 18 | Changes in hiring forms and in master-to-man relationships tending towards the predomination of the wage form in both agriculture and manufacturing resulted in only a part of the labourer 's life , his working hours , being under the control of his employer . |
| 19 | The other CD had at least a text explaining the context of each piece , but again no libretto and nothing about the opera or its composer . |
| 20 | The rockfall lasted at least a minute . |
| 21 | Dawn 's nervousness while she was attached to my hand lasted for quite a while and there was nothing I could do about it other than reassure her . |
| 22 | A British youngster from a poor background who gained higher school certificate had at least a chance of going on to university or technical college , with fees and maintenance paid . |
| 23 | His 1983 study of the composition history of The art of fugue , once thought to be Bach 's last work , showed that its composition spanned at least a decade , with a significant change of conception en route . |
| 24 | During October the value of the currency fell by almost a half on the free market , to $1.00=12.7 cruzados , prompting police intervention in some exchange bureaus . |
| 25 | But the country remained for long a backwater in international relations . |
| 26 | An envelope arrived with only a receipt inside , it was for the ruby ring . |
| 27 | By the end of the year he had obtained livery of his spiritualities and temporalities , although a protracted and bitter dispute ensued for over a year with Archbishop Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] over the sums Hamo claimed as due to him for vacancy , during which the see of Rochester had been in the archbishop 's hands . |
| 28 | A Russian representative stayed for about a year in Stockholm in 1635 – 36 , and another spent four years in western Europe , mainly in the Dutch republic , in the early 1660s ; but both of these were sent for mainly commercial purposes and the second was an Englishman long resident in Russia . |