Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I would be very surprised if a property on at nine fifty would be dropped much below nine hundred because , obviously they have a , they have a certain that they need to get and I I 'd be surprised if they 'd go sort of much below fifty pounds less a month than they 've advertised it for . |
| 2 | Only 100 years ago a zoo meant a series of caged animals set up exclusively for recreation . |
| 3 | Bracken Cottage , which had come to her on Elise 's death , was all very well , but living out in one of the Sherwood Forest villages would have entailed long rush-hour drives twice a day , and already Merrill had gathered that Luke Travis was n't the sort of man to take kindly to excuses about traffic-jams . |
| 4 | The term ‘ non-specific ’ is unsatisfactory , although in common usage , because it lumps together those cases where a cause can be established with those in which no aetiological agent can be found . |
| 5 | Only four years later a heart attack forced him into retirement . |
| 6 | These proposals were not adopted , they were seldom referred to although in the USA much physical geography did not develop in geography departments , but exactly 50 years later a paper with the same title as Barrows 's ( Chorley , 1973 ) sought to examine the extent to which the ecological approach to geography provided a unifying link between the human and physical sides of the subject . |
| 7 | Just 16 days ago a one-ton van bomb dumped at East London 's massive office development Canary Wharf also failed to explode although experts have been unable to find any fault . |
| 8 | Presentation and ease of use are the most obvious areas where a DOS application has to fight hard for its existence alongside the GUI opposition , and in this respect 1-2-3 release 3.4 breaks little new ground . |
| 9 | I work on the face now , and there are always dodgy situations when a lump of rock falls and just misses you . |
| 10 | There are also secondary infringements where a person " deals " with infringing articles , for example , by importing , selling or hiring . |
| 11 | Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road . |
| 12 | ( Granted , there were a few flaws … but hey , ‘ MY PEN RAI ’ ( ‘ never mind ’ ) , as we say about 100 times here a day in Thailand ! ) |
| 13 | but the particular council which is Elmbridge District Council , started off after last year 's victory by the Liberal Democrats , by moving to one full council meeting a week , lasting about six hours once a week . |
| 14 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 15 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 16 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 17 | ‘ There could be literally a multitude of quite proper reasons why a child decided it no longer wanted to live with its parents . ’ |
| 18 | The consultant explained that the lungs mature at around 36 weeks when a substance called surfactant is produced . |
| 19 | Then several years later a gunman appeared in front of him : ‘ A man stood there , four feet away and fired a gun at me . |
| 20 | Soak your feet in the solution for at least 15 minutes twice a day , pat dry and sprinkle your feet and the inside of your shoes with a little arrowroot powder . |
| 21 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 22 | Then 40 years later a rejigging of the system ensured a lasting concentration of executive power in the hands of the mayor in City Hall . |
| 23 | On the following Tuesday he had tickets for the much-acclaimed Lear at the National , and then two days later a seat in the stalls for the revival of Turandot at the Coliseum . |
| 24 | Just over fifty years later a second Montevideo Congress produced a revised Convention , that on International Procedural Law of 19 March 1940 , To the existing text of what became Article 11 were added two further sentences , one requiring that letters rogatory be translated into the language of the state of destination and the other dispensing with the requirement of legalisation provided transmission was through the diplomatic ( or , in their absence , consular ) agents of the state of origin . |
| 25 | The officer did not invite the defendant to express a preference for giving blood or urine but warned him of the consequences of failure to provide a specimen and gave him the opportunity to put forward any reasons why a specimen of blood could not be taken by a doctor . |
| 26 | FROM tiny beginnings in Tubwell Row over 200 years ago a firm of international repute has grown . |
| 27 | There are sometimes very good reasons why a woman needs strong pain relief : the baby may be at risk , or there may be obstetric reasons . |
| 28 | The doctor 's mild and unsensational belief was that fifteen minutes twice a day , on bus or train , in the roaring traffic 's boom , or the silence of your lonely room , can utterly change your life . |
| 29 | Pike have very sharp teeth so a wire trace has to be used to stop pike biting through the nylon . |