Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 2 | You no doubt heard about the raid on a Venezuelan freighter outside Amsterdam a couple of years ago when a gang impersonating the harbour police impounded over a million pounds worth of acapulco gold ? ’ |
| 3 | Generale de Service en Informatique SA , France 's sixth-largest software and systems engineering firm , announced yesterday a five-year facilities management contract with Picard Surgeles SA , a retailer of frozen foodstuffs , which aims to automate its distribution system . |
| 4 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 5 | IN FEBRUARY the High Court in London heard how a Sussex-based antiques dealer knocked on the door of an elderly spinster 's Knightsbridge flat and talked her into parting with an art collection worth more than £30,000 . |
| 6 | Coventry is the home of several major attractions including the world famous Museum of British Road Transport located only a few minutes drive away near the city centre . |
| 7 | This talented young Liphook rider notched up a runaway experts class victory in the Bognor Regis Club trial at Lavant , near Chichester . |
| 8 | The only redeeming feature was that he and Shan Hackett had lunch in Monty 's personal mess and ran up a goodly drinks bill which they charged to the teetotal general . |
| 9 | I wondered if the athletics department might explain why we had n't a 1500 metres runner in the final for the first time since 1960 ? |
| 10 | This set up a Civil Rights Commission empowered to assist blacks to exercise their right to vote . |
| 11 | A permanent WEU group would set up military units answerable to the WEU , plan possible deployments , and set up a European armaments agency . |
| 12 | The Government set up a Public Schools Commission to investigate the Direct Grant Schools : this brought together the sixty Heads of Direct Grant schools in the Headmasters ' Conference in much the same way as the Taunton Commission had led to the creation of the Conference itself in 1869 . |