Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No there seems no logic in taking a , a long barrelled weapon er in as much as the team leader perhaps has a few more responsibilities than the other officers have and I would be going forward to handcuff whoever was in that bo er in that bedroom . |
| 2 | If the previous Labour Government in which he served had only caught a few more headlines and been as active in prison improvements and new prison building as all Conservative Governments since 1979 have been , his comments could be taken more seriously . |
| 3 | Normally , one only meets a non-cumulative several liability where it is annexed to joint liability . |
| 4 | This interruption , or interrupt , takes the form of automatically switching the control unit from its current sequence of instructions to a separate sequence of instructions , whose task is to deal with the completion of the transput operation ( and perhaps to initiate a further such operation ) . |
| 5 | She only needed a few more bits and pieces . |
| 6 | And so did a good many people who I , I thought would never go . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I know a few Romanies have been sent to prison for poaching — but so have a great many gorgios . |
| 8 | The large numbers of retired people , the tourists , the workers in the primary industries ( mining , quarrying , fishing and farming ) and the workers in the secondary industries ( manufacturing ) — all of them together need a great many services , or tertiary industries . |
| 9 | You 've got a great acting career ahead of you if you could only learn a few more tricks . ’ |
| 10 | Show-jumping desperately needs a few more character horses . |
| 11 | Mr Grey 's enthusiasm and energy for the entrepreneurial challenge was contagious , but one could nevertheless feel a good few heels digging in among the bookselling purists at the idea of running a hairdresser . |
| 12 | ‘ He got his kicks playing away scoring a spectacular own goal ’ |
| 13 | Aye , we 'll just have a wee few minutes before we set them up . ’ |
| 14 | I already had a great many tablecloths in boxes with bows on . |
| 15 | No you can all you can do is just learn a few each day or learn some patterns so that you can get quite a few words in one go and sort of learn some tricks like guessing well we 'll we 'll try with a C. |
| 16 | Faye still has a few more days to consider the amniocentesis . |
| 17 | This breed can live to 14 years of age , so giving an adult a home should still promise a good few years of companionship . |
| 18 | We do still have a few such courses and they work quite well . |
| 19 | This time it was Jean herself who took the wheel as she took her husband home to spend a cosy few hours by his own fireside . |
| 20 | If you practise in an area where rentcharges are common you 'll also need a few more forms ( see your law stationer 's catalogue or the Land Registry list of official forms ) dealing with these . |
| 21 | ‘ You know , Mr Lytham , I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that my bequest might also wait a few more years . |
| 22 | Go see Fred and he 's probably got a few more pounds ready available than |
| 23 | Every time I turn around someone else has run off with it and I 've probably walked a good few office miles in its retrieval . |
| 24 | ‘ It will probably take a few more days before we know the source , but it would be up to the Disciplinary Committee to decide whether it will be made public , ’ he said . |
| 25 | He may also have a separate All Risks policy covering unspecified valuables — Sum Insured £5,000 — Single Article Limit £200 . |
| 26 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , speaking on BBC 's The World This Weekend , said : ‘ On past form a great many members are looking to make up their minds at the last moment . |
| 27 | Watching a demolisher 's ball and chain smash into the face of an early Georgian building would now make a great many people feel sick . |
| 28 | Representing an image accurately requires a great many bytes of digital information . |
| 29 | WELL LAY A FEW MORE RECRUITS BEFORE YE GO … |
| 30 | PS Please , please print my letter and please put a few more Jennifer Capriati pictures in your magazine . |