Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift . |
| 2 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 3 | For consumers who use 1,000 units or less a new tariff is introduced , with no standing charge . |
| 4 | In the first place it is argued that the real motive which underlay her ostentatious partisanship of enlightenment , especially in the 1760s , was not a concern for the well-being of her subjects or even a deep belief in ideas of enlightened government , but mere vanity . |
| 5 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 6 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 7 | Difficulties only arise when dieters get it into their heads that only a certain source of protein is acceptable and therefore restrict the overall range . |
| 8 | In the course of their researches , Les and Pam discovered that the Ministry of Defence ( Air ) had no list of Far East survivors nor even a complete list of those captured by the Japanese . |
| 9 | The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen . |
| 10 | It was n't just going to be papers , it could be health clinics , bookshops , making a network of people sharing lifestyles and indeed an economic base . |
| 11 | ‘ This indulgence by journalists and sadly a small number of politicians has been transparent since the shadow cabinet elections in August . ’ |
| 12 | Liverpool 's docks were thronged with visitors , eager to see around warships and even a German submarine , which were opened to the public . |
| 13 | First , it was his knee , then an achilles and finally a broken finger . |
| 14 | MAUREEN ( trying the B set which emits a series of siren-like whoops and then a muffled jazz band ) : It does n't seem particularly easy to get ANY station on the B. |
| 15 | Among the casualties at Assandun in 1016 were several important East Anglians and doubtless a large number of lesser people . |
| 16 | They concluded that , especially in relation to fluvial processes , explanations that ignore the role of human activities run the risk of eliminating one of the most significant variables and perhaps an appropriate note on which to end this chapter is their affirmation that ( Graf , Trimble , Toy and Costa , 1980 , p. 281 ) : |
| 17 | ‘ We are meeting urgent local housing needs by providing affordable , high quality new homes and thus an improved quality of life . ’ |
| 18 | A Department of the Environment report on eleven such schemes found that there was often little or no consultation with tenants over the future of their homes and only a small proportion of the purchasers were local authority tenants or people on the council waiting list . |
| 19 | The second involves the settling of cells onto a slide surface through a sucrose , saline or other solution , and has been used principally for oocytes , but may be useful for spermatocytes if only a thin suspension is available . |
| 20 | It includes drawings for wall decorations , tapestries , silverware , stage designs and even a triumphal car . |
| 21 | Isabella d'Este , was not merely an enthusiastic instrument collector and patroness of the arts but also an accomplished singer , lutenist and keyboard player . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've had motorists hitting live pheasants and other birds and animals but never a frozen turkey , ’ said an AA spokesman . |
| 23 | The invasion was briefly halted at Ancrum Moor near Jedburgh , where a heavy defeat was inflicted on the English by an army under the command of the sixth Earl of Angus , hitherto one of Henry 's supporters but now a bitter opponent because of the desecration of his family 's graves at Melrose abbey . |
| 24 | Analysed corpora contain not only the tags of each of the words but also a syntactic analysis of each extract . |
| 25 | When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words . |
| 26 | It appears from the accounts that quite a different reading is given to occasions of physical or verbal reprimand which fall within the acknowledged framework of official penalties . |
| 27 | If you 're young you might think that cushions or even a thick rug will be fine for sitting on but not everybody would be happy — or able — to put up with this and certainly older people would prefer something more comfortable . |
| 28 | Whether you are a keen follower of horoscopes or just a casual glancer , the chances are you wo n't miss your stars in each issue , which is why I 'm delighted to welcome an extraordinarily talented new astrologer to Good Housekeeping . |
| 29 | It should not be a series of coded sign-posts that only a small élite can decode and which lead us round and round in circles . |
| 30 | Martin Lester of Bristol has produced a Boeing 747 Jumbo jet , a Space Shuttle , countless sharks and even a flying Daedalus . |