Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
2 | Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday , relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure . |
3 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
4 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
5 | They have been successful … the crime rate in the city is down by five hundred offences a month … there are only one or two displays now a week … but they do still happen . |
6 | In any case , the concern about Article 86 legislation could be met relatively easily by retaining monopoly references to the MMC , with the OFT proposing behavioural or structural remedies where a market situation was not in the public interest , but there was no evidence of abuse by the firms involved . |
7 | a hundred and fifty crackers just a letter addressed |
8 | They had gone about a hundred and fifty yards when a figure in blue combat gear loomed up and signalled them to stop . |
9 | They are a development of the system of weirs and flash locks where a stretch of water was impounded to provide a good depth of water to flush or ‘ flash ’ a boat along its way . |
10 | Open full-bodied reds about two hours in advance and lighter ones about an hour beforehand . |
11 | In 1894 he joined the Wilson Line in Hull as second mate of the SS Draco and three years later a chance meeting with the Norwegian explorer H. Borchgrevink , a passenger in his vessel , the Montebello , led to Colbeck 's joining the Southern Cross expedition ( 1898–1900 ) as magnetic observer , following an intensive course of instruction at Kew Observatory . |
12 | The link between constructs 4 and 5 shows how an attribute such as the sense of stillness evokes an association with feelings of civilization in this particular picture . |
13 | No I was actually getting at a certain person that works for Trident that does n't think it 's worth extra hassle for a hundred and eighty pounds more a year . |
14 | He seems about as straight-forward a citizen as ever foreclosed on a widow and fifteen orphans not a hint of creepy-crawliness no European connections , not even any gaps . ’ |
15 | At 11.30 a large-calibre shell exploded close by and fifteen minutes later a woman aged 60 was admitted to the hospital with an open fracture of the thigh . |
16 | By 1800 , Nez Perce buffalo-hunting expeditions to the Yellowstone had become too dangerous , and five years later a council in the Kamiah valley resolved to obtain firearms for the tribe . |
17 | The lexical norm described by Fasold is probably associated with a rather complicated situation in Scottish and Irish dialects where a set of verbs including keep , sleep , sweep have apparently been recategorized as irregular , without the alveolar suffix as a past tense marker . |
18 | Built in 1904 , there is an intimate , galleried restaurant and elegant lounges where a pianist plays each evening . |
19 | The protest in Jinan involved a hunger strike , started on 18 November , and several days later a march through the streets by students , calling on the provincial authorities to listen to their complaints . |
20 | United Kingdom confectionery trade is worth two point six billion pounds , billion , and two years ago a figure that really astonished me when I saw it was that the total of all money that was given to development charities in the United Kingdom , including CAFOD , Christian Aid and Oxfam was equal to what Britain spent on one product made in York and that 's KitKat . |
21 | Belfast Sinn Fein councillor Joe Austin was with his brother-in-law and four children when a grenade was thrown through the front bedroom window of his home in Falls Road . |
22 | But two weeks later a friend in the motor trade serviced it for him and proclaimed the car to be in sound condition and a good deal . |