Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 2 | It is generally conceded that such words have at least a Component of meaning that resists truth-conditional treatment ( Grice , 1975 ; Wilson , 1975 ; Levinson , 1979b ) . |
| 3 | BJORN BORG who , at 36 , is still contemplating a return to Grand Slam tournaments , faces Olivier Delaitre , of France — ranked 44th in the world — when he plays his first official men 's singles match for almost a year in Nice tomorrow . |
| 4 | The harder waters need at least a week of continuous fishing to stand any reasonable chance of success whereas one trip to the Severals is more likely to produce the goods . |
| 5 | No such action has been taken : the pilot projects apply to just a handful of catchments . |
| 6 | Probably most languages grammaticalize at least a distinction between proximal ( or close to speaker ) and distal ( or non-proximal , sometimes close to addressee ) , but many make much more elaborate distinctions as we shall see . |
| 7 | PC superstores account for nearly a quarter of the total market in the US , and they 're beginning to make inroads into the UK market as well with the likes of PC World and the Business Superstore . |
| 8 | Residential homes and hospitals cater for only a minority of dementia sufferers and this situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | Pupils learn about how a printing press works . |
| 10 | Even if the researcher completes the writing within , say , a year , publishers need at least a year to publish the book . |
| 11 | Eventually , one rat adopts a submissive posture and its squeaks lengthen to about a second each , while their pitch drops to about 30 000 hertz . |