Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 2 | And you do n't have to spend hours struggling with a awkward pins while you get hot over the collar . |
| 3 | Party of baboons with typewriters working for a million years would n't come up with anything wise . ’ |
| 4 | It will separate and purify molecules ranging from a few milligrams to several grams from solution . |
| 5 | When she had left the bedroom he heard her feet scurrying for a few minutes , then the door slammed . |
| 6 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 7 | Faulting takes place through sudden , rapid movements over distances ranging from a few centimetres to several metres . |
| 8 | Known locally as the Kenwood Triangle , Bishop 's Avenue has properties starting at a million pounds and rising to the £25 million asking price of the vast , newly-built Towers . |
| 9 | The expressway turns to cross water full of the redness of the sky , and there , floating on the horizon above the shining red water , are the clustered towers of the inner city , purple with distance , lights shining in a million windows — exactly as he has always known they would be . |
| 10 | We can not stop our European partners arguing for a united states of Europe . |
| 11 | For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 12 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 13 | Some twenty years ago , as a very young and inexperienced social worker , I and some colleagues working in a social services team decided that we would run a bereavement group . |
| 14 | I used Vichy 's Hip and Thigh Massage Cream and I could actually feel the nodules of fat cells disintegrating after a few weeks of applying the cream daily , and the improvement became more and more obvious as I continued . |