Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craftsmen laboured for nearly a millennia on intricate carvings . |
| 2 | Selissa Vance 's frantic parents searched for nearly an hour before they found her , virtually unhurt , under a nearby tree . |
| 3 | Small to medium ground-living birds , mostly with sober plumage , sexes alike , and moderately thin bills adapted to both an insect and a seed diet . |
| 4 | The step-sisters left without even a change of clothing : ‘ it was acting a novel , being an incarnate romance ’ , as Mary later put it . |
| 5 | Size of establishment was once again significant ( see Table 21 ) indicating that all but two ( 13% ) of the large libraries allocated at least a quarter of a specified staff member 's time to training . |
| 6 | Gilt-edged stocks increased by around an £1/8 Marks & Spencer retreated with the rest of the high street pack . |
| 7 | Nearly 70 per cent of seasonal , temporary or casual workers are also part-timers compared to only a quarter of fixed contract workers . |
| 8 | Slips , trips and falls accounted for almost a half of all major injuries while injuries resulting from exposure to harmful substances in the chemical industry ( 15.8 per cent ) were , not surprisingly , significantly higher than in the manufacturing industry as a whole ( 5.5 per cent ) . |
| 9 | Once again this attitude to the natural environment was essentially pragmatic ; farming involves replacing complex , natural biological communities with simplified , artificial systems dominated by only a handful of species . |
| 10 | ‘ All three had injuries inflicted by possibly a knife or piece of wood . |
| 11 | But third births increased by almost a quarter , and higher order births by 18 per cent . |
| 12 | In the 1970s and 1980s , Otmoor has been the controversial subject of vigorous campaigns fought against both a motorway and an extensive drainage scheme for the river Ray proposed by the Thames Water Authority . |
| 13 | By 1958 more than a quarter of consumers had electric water heating ( compared with an eighth on nationalisation ) and water heaters accounted for about a quarter of all domestic electricity sales . |
| 14 | The number of British cot deaths halved in just a year after the advice . |