Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then about 420 million years ago , some forms developed a waxy covering , a cuticle , which warded off desiccation . |
| 2 | Some experts advise a maximum dose of 350–500 mg per day , but according to others , a dose of 250 mg a day is potentially toxic . |
| 3 | It was ensured primarily through the ‘ building tender ’ system : Some prisoners had a special status , half-recognized officially , derived from their job of ‘ tending the building ’ ( hence the name ) , that is , to make sure that the cell blocks were kept clean . |
| 4 | This has become something of an art form , with some prisoners acquiring an enviable reputation for transforming prison fare into spicy and original ethnic dishes . |
| 5 | For extra protection , some products contain a protective sunscreen plus Vitamin E to enrich and condition your skin . |
| 6 | Some groups appreciate a formal input in lecture form but other methods may be used e.g. asking participants to reflect on language they would need when holidaying or living in a country such as Greece or China , and then drawing out the theory from the discussion . |
| 7 | He is one of the few artists to make a successful transition from music to movies . |
| 8 | He 's got too many fingers in too many pies ok one groups making , one groups making a million pound a day , where another groups loosing a million pound a day or loosing two million pound a day , if you 've got too many fingers in too many pies |
| 9 | A superb trout hooked itself firmly and during a breathtaking few minutes gave a spectacular display and a wonderful fight . |
| 10 | So this evening , as we come to the end of one year and prepare for the next , can we spend a few minutes doing a spiritual work-out and look at the consequences of what John wrote about the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 11 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 12 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 13 | But the ‘ stem ’ tapers out to a point , and in some cases had a whip-like flexibility ; the same structure has been interpreted as a ‘ tail ’ . |
| 14 | However it is possible in some cases to obtain a broad indication for 1985 of the contrast between firms with over 1000 and those with less than 100 employees although the data is for manufacturing industry rather than all employees . |
| 15 | Some cultures permit a reciprocal hug to signal welcome on arrival , and again on departure to signal appreciation of the visit . |
| 16 | Some researchers noted a consistent relationship between the mean length of utterance of the adult 's speech and that of the child so that , during development , the adult is invariably using slightly longer utterances than the child . |
| 17 | Some mines operated a two-shift system , others had three shifts . |
| 18 | He argues further that from a legal point of view objectors have few opportunities to present an effective case . |
| 19 | Some subjects received a novel odour at this stage , others the pre-exposed odour . |
| 20 | This is not so easy of course , because some schools take a negative view of pregnant schoolgirls and school-age mothers , and also girls themselves may be extremely loathe to set foot in any school again . |
| 21 | Some schools offer a two-year course for students who have more experience , particularly those from overseas . |
| 22 | He walked along its edge , his lips pursed , stopping every few paces to study a particular knot of fibres or to read some of the tiny lines of symbols that moved ceaselessly in the spaces between the shapes . |
| 23 | some proteins form an integral part of the membrane and are exposed to both the exterior and interior surface of the cell . |
| 24 | Because of this confusion , some words add an unnecessary -e- : lightley , slowley . |
| 25 | Instead some computers provide a writeable control store ( WCS ) which can be dynamically loaded with a set of binary patterns as new micro-instructions . |
| 26 | Some computers provide an extra field in the descriptor to specify the number of characters in the string still to be processed , and this would be decremented by the " Increment descriptor " instruction . |
| 27 | Some computers have a large number of different numeric data.types . |
| 28 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
| 29 | Some crabs employ an aggressive form of autotomy . |
| 30 | A special menu is offered for children , a nd some bedrooms take a fourth bed . |