Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively a rule might be long and particular , such as detailed rules on how an order slip or trading card is to be completed . |
| 2 | Firms from the Netherlands have increased their ownership of British subsidiaries by nearly a quarter . |
| 3 | Do n't slip into your racing shoes until around an hour before the start ; a comfortable pair of well-worn trainers will suffice for now . |
| 4 | Their former Serbian neighbours of just a week ago have also left , streaming in the opposite direction across the Drina into Serbia . |
| 5 | Once more her eyes flew to meet his , but this time there was a shy pleasure in their brown depths until again a shadow darkened them . |
| 6 | Those who come to it fresh , without preconceived ideas of how a spreadsheet works , will find it a dream . |
| 7 | Equally , the human considerations of where a settlement is placed in a region are as important as the physical characteristics of the landscape which must be allowed for . |
| 8 | Who can resist those mercurially silvery little discs with just a hint of credit card iridescence to reinforce the enigma inherent in all records — that , until they are played , their mysterious surface autism offers no clue as to what might be within ? |
| 9 | Within private care where the element of choice might have been thought to be an advantage it was found that a third of residents did not choose , and for 22 per cent the unsolicited efforts of either a relative , the general practitioner or a social worker led to their admission ( Weaver et al . , |
| 10 | ‘ Despite intensive efforts for nearly a year , we have not been able to find a satisfactory formula either in terms of price or consistency of supply ’ he said . |
| 11 | The little terraced houses , with gardens front and back , that Loudon advocates have now doubtless been demolished as substandard , for each floor could measure as little as 12 feet by 12 feet ; but they were not only a great advance on the slum housing in industrial towns ; they provided interiors that could give the domestic virtues at least a chance of growth . |
| 12 | The 37-year-old took an overdose of painkillers and lay in sub-zero conditions with just a sleeping bag . |
| 13 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 14 | Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year . |
| 15 | They offer simultaneous operation of a local network connection and two serial ports plus a separate parallel port for network printing , and xEasy software to help manage installation , operation , and remote administration of the X-station ; xEasy encompasses a range of X-station-specific processes , scripts and software features designed to enhance the installation , operation and maintenance of X-Windows-based terminals from both a system administrator 's and a user 's viewpoints . |
| 16 | The analytical core which Keynes shared with Pigou did not extend to their respective prognoses of how an economy responds to excess supply in the labour market . |
| 17 | You must pay full stamps for about a quarter of the qualifying years in your working life to get any basic pension at all — even at a reduced rate . |
| 18 | B. Ruby Rich 's critical comments on Not a Love Story , a documentary film about the pornography industry and one of the big hits of feminist realist film-making , were especially powerful in this respect . |
| 19 | In the following decades Cook 's eye-catching posters and brochure covers set the travel industry 's style for selling dreams , as did his first travel magazine The Excursionist which gave details of Cook 's tours and was published regularly in worldwide editions for almost a century . |
| 20 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 21 | Reduce sugary snacks to twice a day . |
| 22 | We 'll certainly be putting firms in touch with others so that they can learn quickly from other experiences as quite a network of firms grew up at the seminar . |
| 23 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |
| 24 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders they get in the intervening weeks . |
| 25 | The Victorian-built and now rundown Oxford prison WAS to close , together with 5 other jails within just a matter of weeks . |
| 26 | The truss rod nut would also be extremely awkward to adjust in any kind of a hurry , but considering some players ' sketchy ideas of how a truss rod works , perhaps that 's no bad thing . |
| 27 | A blistering July sun , a cloudless blue sky and the wine-dark seas without even a ripple to show for themselves . |
| 28 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |
| 29 | Jack walked through the quiet roads for almost an hour before he came to the bottom of Monument Hill . |
| 30 | Ten days and more of women 's films is a good way of recharging one 's batteries , and women thinking of going to next year 's Festival might like to know that the organisers will arrange accommodation with local families for 50F a night ( approx £5 . ) |