Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Condensed it sounded very little for an afternoon 's talking but simultaneously it was a surprising amount from a man who had started the day denying everything . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , we know all too little about the teacher 's perspective on pedagogy ; we make generalizations which are not based on anything in the way of reliable information . |
| 3 | Both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have demonstrated that plumes can arise only at a boundary between convective regimes , such as that between the Earth 's core and mantle at a depth of 2,900 km . |
| 4 | For the third period , that after the parents ' death or incapacity , I do accept the reasonableness of employing a nursing agency and therefore on this occasion I do accept Mr figure per year of sixty five thousand five hundred and thirty seven pounds and ninety six pence . |
| 5 | Instead I consoled myself that Ellen would be pleased , and a pleased Ellen might become my shipmate all the way around the world , so really , I told myself , I was not doing this for the senator 's happiness , and not even for the twins , but for my own , and so I shook the senator 's hand . |
| 6 | She knew that the job of breaking the news was n't a routine chore , that she had n't been chosen merely because she was the only woman in his team and he saw this as a woman 's job . |
| 7 | I write this as the world 's Number One fan of the Demon Boyz , a roughneck little Tottenham posse . |
| 8 | So I I would erm you know , quite often get bags of clothes , and s we sorted them out , and give them to people with erm quite large families and erm we used to also get some for the tenants ' association for the jumble sales . |
| 9 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |
| 10 | The Tropical Forestry Action Plan ( TFAP ) , which is seen by some as a loggers ' charter , is to be reformed . |
| 11 | Grants and parental contributions would be frozen at 1990 levels and loans would eventually form half of a student 's maintenance award . |
| 12 | The survey found that half of the UK 's knacker businesses have gone bankrupt since they began charging last July . |
| 13 | More than half of the Shipman 's Tale consists of dialogue ( 237 lines out of 434 ) , a figure that increases if we count odd lines introducing a change of speaker or place in dialogue as part of the dialogue . |
| 14 | Spain , which had about half of the EC 's fishing fleet , was accused of taking an inequitable share of fish in Irish waters , of failing to regulate its fleets properly , and of repeated violations of EC catch quotas . |
| 15 | Talks on the issue with the Slovak government proved inconclusive , however , with the latter estimating that " even with the best will " Austria had only the capacity to deliver a maximum of 400 MW , or about half of the unit 's output . |
| 16 | But as for the long-term , he acknowledges that non-IBM sales will be key to Havant 's success , and says that he hopes to see half of the plant 's output going to new customers . |
| 17 | By the end of yesterday , having had half of the region 's press beating a path to her cage door in deepest East Cowton ( and a simultaneous announcement of her existence was being made in New York ) , she was feeling distinctly tired but kept her pecker up by chewing on a favourite piece of banana . |
| 18 | This autumn I visited the San Joaquin Valley in California where almost half of the world 's raisin crop is grown . |
| 19 | In each of these products , Europe accounted for more than half of the world 's output ; most of the rest came from the United States . |
| 20 | Its language , after 1945 , suddenly became the lingua franca of the world — the first mankind has ever known — and more than half of the world 's mail , it is said , is now in English . |
| 21 | Thirteen of the Pacific nations — the US , Canada , Japan , Australia , New Zealand , Hong Kong , Malaysia , Singapore , Indonesia , Thailand , Brunei and the Philippines — now account for half of the world 's growth . |
| 22 | With about half of the world 's population living in low-lying areas the impact of a significant sea-level rise will be enormous . |
| 23 | In terms of the distribution of the world 's resources we know that women — half of the world 's population — share 1 per cent of them . |
| 24 | Half of the world 's rainforest has already been destroyed . |
| 25 | It is proposed that half of the project 's time will be funded by case study work . |
| 26 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 27 | Temperate forests--including deciduous , coniferous , mixed and mountain forests--account for about half of the earth 's forest cover . |
| 28 | This is possible because only half of the tape 's width travels past the heads on each run . |
| 29 | Because half of the Library 's budget represents payment in advance for subscriptions for the following year , it is extremely difficult to make savings in the current year when financial pressures are exerted . |
| 30 | During 1992 half of the Group 's interest in ELAN was sold and purchase warrants , which expire on 15 December 1993 , were issued in respect of its remaining holding . |