Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ages tend to be entered initially as six , seven or eight mainly with a view to achieving an acceptable age of completion for secondary entry . |
| 2 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 3 | They are , I mean there 's only usually two or three there at a time , but you see it 's all bricking at the present |
| 4 | Launched in September with no publicity , one of the worst time slots imaginable — one or four o'clock on a Sunday morning ( depending on which TV region you 're in ) — and what looks like the lowest budget in TV , it nevertheless achieved a ratings increase from 300,000 to 1.6 million in it 's first four months and , according to Granada TV insiders , it 's guaranteed to run ’ almost indefinitely ’ . |
| 5 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 6 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 7 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 8 | The sensual Margaret Tudor very quickly stirred up trouble by taking a second husband , the sixth Earl of Angus — a Red Douglas , who proved to be a greedy bully and unsuitable either as a husband or a stepfather . |
| 9 | The project will comprise a review of pertinent research findings--notably from the study of small businesses , urban geography and regional economics--together with an investigation of specific practical initiatives in the area of local business development . |
| 10 | Wipe the interior of the machine and dry thoroughly with a disinfectant impregnated cloth or disposable paper towel . |
| 11 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 12 | Recent pictures on television showing young Kiwi enthusiasts pestering Test cricketers for their autographs as they left the field of play — and this actually during a Test match ! — have led me to ruminate on the lasting attraction of the pursuit of cricketers ' signatures . |
| 13 | Some of them wanted to charge as much as twelve and six just for a skirt . |
| 14 | and large enough for a bit of extra elbow room . |
| 15 | Eleanor got into it , as quiet and malleable now as a puppet . |
| 16 | I tried four different combos , three power amps and DI'ed straight into a mixer through studio reference speakers , a pair of cheapo ghetto blasters and some ordinary domestic hi-fi speakers . |
| 17 | Ileocolonoscopy was performed between 2 and 3 pm with an Olympus CF 10 endoscope under sedation with 5 mg midazolam and 50 mg pethidine . |
| 18 | It means that every decision or action taken between 9.38 a.m. and 9.39 a.m. on a Tuesday is high quality . |
| 19 | Turn out and cool thoroughly on a wire rack . |
| 20 | It is expected to arrive in early September and will take part in the Autumn Steam Gala on Saturday , Sunday , September 26 and 27 together with a selection of Great Western locomotives . |
| 21 | He sighed , took out another ten pound note and slid the money across the counter , calculating as he did so that he could have eaten adequately and drunk excessively for a fortnight in Lindos for what a night at the Skein of Geese had cost him . |
| 22 | This is an example of a normal , unmarked structure ( see sections 5.1.2.3 and 5.1.2.4 below for a discussion of marked information structure ) . |
| 23 | Tissue associated microbes were liberated by maceration and cultured quantitatively on a range of bacteriological media . |
| 24 | In El Salvador and Nicaragua , the left is preparing to fight presidential elections in 1994 and 1996 respectively amid an atmosphere of chronic political upheaval . |
| 25 | The weather was much better ; sunny but cold still with a trace of a breeze , a good day for walking . |
| 26 | Mark Benson won the toss for Kent and , as is customary these days , put Hampshire in But 11 o'clock on a July morning is very different from 10.30am in September and , while it was cloudy , there was nothing like the assistance the bowlers will expect to find at the start of the NatWest Trophy final later in the year . |