Example sentences of "[noun pl] [det] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The individual trials lasted no more than five minutes each followed by a few minutes ' deliberation . |
| 2 | It follows that such noisy groups of youngsters whether in canoes , on cycles or on foot , need to be broken down into smaller groups each controlled by a responsible competent leader or instructor until such time as they become mature canoeists and are able to appreciate the magic and wonder of their surroundings . |
| 3 | The well tested at 69 million standard cubic feet a day — double the previous best from a fracced vertical well in the field and 10 times that achieved by a non-fracced vertical well . |
| 4 | In all cases this leads to a pronounced change in the CL of the affected cements which is an important element in the diagenetic event stratigraphy . |
| 5 | Naturally , people who choose to ignore these phenomena will have no need for the idea ( just as those who choose to ignore societal phenomena have no need for an idea of society ) but in both cases this leads to a dramatic impoverishment of their views of the real world . |
| 6 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 7 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 8 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
| 9 | Then there 's kissing : I kiss anyone , does n't matter who , could be the milkman , who stinks , or the cat , and , you 've guessed it , every time , the Monster starts reaching up with its podgy arms and its lips all crimped into a wet sucky snout . |
| 10 | It was one of three separate lines each belonging to a different company laid to the small cathedral city of Wells between 1859–70 . |
| 11 | Rear seat belts each consisted of a two-piece webbing lap strap anchored to the aircraft structure . |
| 12 | Until relatively recently , oligopoly theory was typically presented as a collection of models each based on a particular ad hoc set of assumptions about firms ' perceptions of their rivals ' reactions to their own choices of prices or outputs . |
| 13 | For regulationist theories the history of capitalist development has been a series of phases each dominated by a different combination of regime of accumulation and mode of regulation . |
| 14 | Some of those arguing for mixed-ability teaching did so on the narrowest professional grounds that it would improve teaching and learning , obliging teachers to treat pupils as individuals each proceeding at a different pace and in a different manner . |
| 15 | Instead , properties would be placed in one of eight broad bands each relating to a national average value . |
| 16 | I want to say very generally that we have to avoid thinking about that sort of clash as an impossible dilemma , a blank , unintelligible conflict , a tribal row between unrelated moral principles each espoused by a separate group — a dispute that can only be settled by tribal warfare . |
| 17 | On the west , between the still central figure and those reclining in the angles , the strugglers are divided into three groups in each wing : two groups of three figures each separated by a short one of two . |
| 18 | Moreover it inevitably ran into difficulties and criticism in the early 1980s when the American economy was in serious trouble — with a steep rise in oil prices and no agreement on how to conserve energy , and with inflation , unemployment and interest rates all running at a high level . |
| 19 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 20 | A plant of noble proportions producing numerous stems each consisting of a large shiny green leaf and a leafy bract from which a spike of soft blue flowers emerges . |
| 21 | For those theses who have only one recorded citation , the citation period is zero , as it is for those theses whose citations all fall within a single year . |
| 22 | Here there will need to be not one module in EP but a variety of modules each geared to a particular path and each with a different set of prerequisites . |
| 23 | The pupils all come from a good social background . ’ |
| 24 | They will be assisted by the book 's division into chapters each dealing with a particular class of compound — eg amino acids , sugars , steroids etc . |
| 25 | To divide a book into chapters each dealing with a particular type is to sidestep the identification issue completely , yet it is still frequently done . |
| 26 | The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle . |
| 27 | A practical circus consists of a series of tasks each placed at a different position in the room . |
| 28 | However , the significance of this is questionable , as extant specimens all emanate from a single obverse die . |
| 29 | Trees and contours all add to a sylvan setting and any attractive existing features may well be incorporated in a proposed scheme with advantage . |
| 30 | This was to be a body of seventy-two members divided into eight subcommittees each specializing in a particular field of expenditure and backed by adequate staff . |