Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Jackson , the estate agent , must have had some misgivings about the way matters were progressing . |
| 2 | Perhaps a few adverts round the football terraces would spread the net a little wider . |
| 3 | A few snippets from the Feedback Sheets on Care Sunday give us some flavour of what has happened in different parishes across the Diocese e.g : |
| 4 | In general the " topping workmen " were rare enough in London and hardly existed elsewhere , except perhaps in some branches of the metal trades in Sheffield or Birmingham . |
| 5 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 6 | These measures reminded some Jews of the concentration camps they had recently left . |
| 7 | Companies ' p&l accounts will undergo a radical change over the next few months as the Accounting Standards Board 's FRS 3 , which deals with the structure and content of the p&l account , comes into effect . |
| 8 | I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops . |
| 9 | The entries in some columns of the database views are restricted to only take a predefined set of values . |
| 10 | The entries in some columns of the database views are restricted to only take a predefined set of values . |
| 11 | Although many of the early worries were unfounded , there were a few surprises for the host families . |
| 12 | THE flashiest UK Jazz Awards proceedings yet , this time co-sponsored by your favourite newspaper , saw few surprises from the poll winners but some of the best live music ever to support this four-year-old event . |
| 13 | The particular needs of elderly members of ethnic minorities will become more important over the next few decades as the population ages and its profile becomes similar to that of the white population . |
| 14 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 15 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 16 | Some walnuts from the workhouse grounds were sold for £2.2s.6d , and some picked oakum was bought by a London firm for 12s.6d a hundred-weight . |
| 17 | There are a few exceptions amongst the sea slugs which are herbivorous belonging to the Aplysia family and commonly called sea hares . |
| 18 | As the game progressed Tranmere 's defenders became more composed and , in the closing minutes , they went in search of a winning goal and caused some heart-flutterings among the home supporters . |
| 19 | On the PC version , which now runs under Windows 2.03 or Windows 386 , there have been some changes to the keyboard shortcuts that , for anyone used to the previous version , are extremely strange . |
| 20 | In the context of acute hospitals in the NHS , it is the logical next stage to follow case-mix accounting , and could be introduced with some changes to the funding structures of the NHS . |
| 21 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 22 | Yes Moderator the Board 's erm published accounts are prefaced by some comments on the accounting conventions that are used . |
| 23 | There are Houseparties on several other Greek islands , in Menorca ( with its own pool and tennis court ) , on the Algarve ( own pool ) , and at a lovely location in Kenya on Diani Beach , where once you 've gawped at the game there 's a centre to distract you with windsurfing , SCUBA diving and sailing just a few yards through the palm trees . |
| 24 | However , it is strongly rumoured that this may be sometime in the early part of 1992 , when some amendments to the Building Regulations are to be introduced . |
| 25 | There will obviously be some differences between the tag assignments made by lexicographers and corpus compilers . |
| 26 | While there are some differences in the cell types that make up fish , frogs , birds , and ourselves , the main difference lies in the spatial organization of the cells . |
| 27 | They were asking the elected members to read the report , reconsider the issues surrounding the whole affair , and assist them in getting some answers from the council officials . |
| 28 | Some alterations to the school premises took place in 1883 , when the yard was extended to take up the site of an old lodging house . |
| 29 | Does he believe that that is possible in Northern Ireland , when some sections of the security services are colluding with terrorists , when they are using terrorists as agents while they are involved in terrorist activity and when some members of the security services are handing out confidential security documents as though they were pen-pal photographs ? |
| 30 | Hoxha 's statue was pulled down , and there were clashes with police in which up to 20 people were injured according to opposition sources , although eyewitness reports said also that some members of the security forces had gone over to the side of the demonstrators . |