Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At nine he was employed by an ironmonger at 2s 6d a week and nine months later as a printer 's devil on the weekly Sunderland Herald at 45 6d . |
| 2 | This followed an argument seven months previously about a stewards ' inquiry into a televised race . |
| 3 | The new Braun Oral-B Plaque Remover features important breakthroughs : Its round , oscillating brush head functions much like a dentist 's instrument . |
| 4 | Questions similar to this one seem to occupy an inordinate amount of the energies of scientists all over the world , not to mention grouses about the shortsightedness/injustice/lack of imagination of a straight thumbs down to a researcher 's pet proposal . |
| 5 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |
| 6 | Defined twenty years ago as a community 's ability to collaborate effectively in identifying problems and finding solutions , community competence has recently been associated with improved health outcomes ( Eng , 1989 ) . |
| 7 | That 's right , and I think what has been shown if you look at the behaviour of organisations sometimes after a disaster erm those that think in that way actually create even more procedures . |
| 8 | Writing is n't usually a social activity , except when you 're working on exercises together in a writers ' group — and even then you 'll find that you do most of your writing alone , in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself . |
| 9 | They held their automatic rifles across their midriffs , four friends out for a day 's sport . |
| 10 | An example is Hieracium ( Hawkweeds — yellow composites with flowers not unlike a dandelion 's ) ; the number of named ‘ species ’ in Britain runs into hundreds , but no two authorities agree on how many there should be . |
| 11 | So , start your children off on a lifetime 's love of books , a future of eager learning . |
| 12 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |