Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This alliance of opposition frustrated all attempts to establish a professional police until Peel 's 1829 Metropolitan Police Act . |
| 2 | Two howitzer shells exploded a few paces from his horse , both blasts beginning small fires among the rye . |
| 3 | By 1800 the overseers , rate books indicate a few changes in the personnel living down Pig Street . |
| 4 | Your only problem is choosing , and before you choose read these words to understand a few basics about the quality of Italian accommodation . |
| 5 | He is almost immobile though his eyes express a thousand shades of mood . |
| 6 | The baths stood a hundred yards down the rue Foch , past the Mairie , the printing works and la maison du sauvage , where a hermit lived in a courtyard barricaded with oil drums and fastened with chains and umpteen locks . |
| 7 | ‘ Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ’ is a poem in Wordsworth 's loftiest philosophical manner , and a triumphant affirmation of God 's creative and restorative power at work in nature . |
| 8 | A brief excursion in July 1798 provided Wordsworth with an opportunity to summarize these new ideas in Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey , on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour , July 13th 1798 . |
| 9 | For a sickening moment he swung wildly on the rope and one of his feet slipped a few inches down the wall . |
| 10 | The Colonel went towards the road to press forward the attack down the main street , a grenade that fell between his feet putting a few splinters in his hand , after he had dived for cover , and seriously wounding his runner . |
| 11 | Some products and places provide a few exceptions to this pattern , as we shall discover in the next chapter , and there were considerable , if patchy and delayed , efforts towards ‘ re-industrialization ’ ( Chapter 10 ) , which created the estimated increase of manufacturing employment across all regions of the North from 1987 to 1989 , averaging 1.4 per cent , probably arrested by 1990 . |
| 12 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 13 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 14 | The evacuation of children , and the mothers of children under five , from London and other large cities began a few days before the outbreak of war . |
| 15 | Moorlands has a special arrangements for guests with a local country club . |
| 16 | with some , some things to write a few words in , some things to tick , some things to make a mark on one of the numbers and so forth so erm er you know it 's erm but as I say it 's difficult to er |
| 17 | Mr Foster also called for provisions to establish a national rights of way record . |
| 18 | Hibs showed a few signs of life when Tweed and Weir threatened on the counter-attack . |
| 19 | In other words , companies now spend fewer pounds to get a million instructions per second ( mips ) from their machines ( see table ) . |
| 20 | His staff officers waited a few yards to the rear as the young man stared towards the enemy encampment . |
| 21 | Some , from lower viewpoints , gave glimpses of the faceted dome that covered the expanse of space ; others looked down and revealed the four tiny figures balanced a hundred metres above a vast , circular , grey plain . |
| 22 | All these are policed by Gloucestershire 's royal protection squad — and the county 's tax payers contrubute a million pounds towards the bill , which comes out of the police budget . |
| 23 | A mixture of something old and something new , everybody here at Club has his or her own favourite , and we 've also asked a few personalities to say a few words about their number 1 trip . |
| 24 | Decent people moved out if they could , and the born-squalid moved in : the swamp of the slums spread a few years behind the speculative builder everywhere . |
| 25 | Most of the teachers lingered a few minutes in the staff room , not from any affection for the place , but to allow the unruly mob of boys to get down the long road that led to Cullbridge , and thence to disperse to the bus station , to Wimpy bars , the library or their various homes . |
| 26 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
| 27 | Most newspapers have a few pages of features , and that 's another kind of readership . |
| 28 | Around seventy per cent of the Territories ' land area is countryside ; verdant hills , small villages , rice fields , beaches and country parks seem a million miles from the sampan-crowded harbour and Manhattan-style skyline of downtown Hong Kong . |
| 29 | The archers have a lighter corselets of scale mail and powerful bows constructed of alternating layers of wood to give them great power and range . |
| 30 | Both cases come a few weeks after a 12-year-old American boy , Gregory Kingsley , ‘ divorced ’ his parents in a court action in Florida . |