Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [be] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In September 1968 the executive sanitary officer in his annual report for 1967 said that over one thousand houses were occupied by more than one family and in several cases seven or eight families occupied what was originally a single dwelling . |
| 3 | Around Ashton-under-Lyne , for example , where it was reckoned there were nearly a hundred cotton mills within a ten-mile radius — all on the river Tame or its tributaries — we find hamlets in the 1790s with the significant names of Boston , Charlestown and Botany Bay . |
| 4 | The people were friendly , there was plenty to eat if they 'd wanted it , and from what he 'd seen there were quite a few unattached girls around . |
| 5 | Defence cuts and a changing world order have turned what was once a bustling workshop into an empty and eerie expanse of space . |
| 6 | A Andy 's got it 's just a blue one . |
| 7 | Before an opportunity is actually found there is usually a preliminary sense that there is an opportunity somewhere in the area . |
| 8 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 9 | Massive deforestation in the Himalayan foothills during the 1980s had aggravated what was already a serious problem in Bangladesh . |