Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists . |
| 2 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 3 | The tape crackled for a few seconds and then hummed as he replaced the receiver . |
| 4 | As they peeled back the debris of centuries , complete houses and workshops emerged , still containing everyday tools , utensils and clothing from a civilisation buried for a thousand years . |
| 5 | The light changed for a few minutes and a watery sun hit the flanks of Lovely Seat . |
| 6 | Midnight and a silvered road of dreams , a black field shot with a million bursts of white — the name is glow-worm , the sight is magic . |
| 7 | He reached into his pouch and withdrew a handful of loose change plundered from a dozen realms . |
| 8 | We are confirmed in this belief by a passage contained in a Judicial Studies Board paper issued to Circuit Judges and Recorders in June 1991 where the Honourable Mr Justice Wright stated : It is impossible to over-rate the contribution made by Kemp & Kemp : The Quantum of Damages to this branch of the law and every Judge who has to deal with personal injury litigation will undoubtedly have to have access to it . |
| 9 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
| 10 | This was printed as a limited edition of seventy-five copies for private circulation in 1876 , and a second edition limited to a hundred copies appeared in 1893 . |
| 11 | The match finished with a few variations on ‘ Boring Boring Ipswich ’ and ‘ I ca n't read and I ca n't write but I can drive a tractor/taxi ’ . |
| 12 | From where he stood , Nuadu saw the slender , copper-haired Beech Naiad emerge from the murdered tree , her arms chopped to ribbons , her body maimed in a dozen places , the red-gold blood of the beech spurting from her . |
| 13 | And Hall himself , long and loose , with his body articulated into a thousand joints , shows how naturally this style comes to him . |
| 14 | ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces . |
| 15 | Thus , it would not be advisable , for example , to compare a sample of heroin users generated from GPs ' records with one produced from the files of a local Drugs Council , because some GPs require patients to attend counselling sessions to complement medical treatment , so that patients who have seen their GP about their heroin use may be more likely to occur in a sample generated by a local Drugs Council than users who have not sought treatment from their GP . |
| 16 | Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium . |
| 17 | The move will be particularly helpful to first time buyers , a Halifax spokesman said , and the impact could be far more wide ranging in Scotland , where the average price paid by a first-time buyers is considerably less than the £51,500 paid by their counterparts in south-east England . |
| 18 | An exceptional first floor flat in a small modern block situated in a quiet mews behind Claridges in the heart of Mayfair . |
| 19 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 20 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
| 21 | The media are aware of this fact , and photographs of Hannah side by side with Her Ladyship featured in a hundred newspapers and more |
| 22 | The fact is that diesel engines are produced in huge volume compared with a few years ago , reducing costs considerably , while petrol engines have grown ever more complex . |
| 23 | Next door to the Glynn shop there was a narrow frontage like a slice cut from a larger premises : two storeys , one room width , with an attic . |
| 24 | Care proceedings can only follow , however , at the instigation of the local authority or the NSPCC. ( b ) The child protection register Each area covered by a social services authority must have a child protection register to be maintained by the social services department . |
| 25 | The creature staggered for a few seconds and turned to scream . |
| 26 | The reward for this self-sacrifice is to get their mugshot plastered across a million posters and T-shirts , witness Monroe , Dean , Presley , Lennon — the all-time greats , the Gang of Four . |
| 27 | The wireless crackled for a few moments until , after much jiggling with the knobs , the voice of Mr Chamberlain became clear . |
| 28 | The window was made of sugar glass , the substance adopted in a thousand movies to look like the real thing . |
| 29 | The ASB has highlighted two methods of dubious interpretation used by a few companies so far . |
| 30 | The big man thought for a few seconds , then laughed . |