Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 2 | The activity was sustained for quite a long time by pupils who , according to their label , have difficulty sustaining anything . |
| 3 | A thousand feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be — especially with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand . |
| 4 | Just 1,000 feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be , especially one with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand ! |
| 5 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 6 | Although it was begun in the sixteenth-century the building was not actually completed for over a hundred years , the upper floor being added in the seventeenth-century . |
| 7 | I have … often been worried that we are imposing more and more on a system of collective ministerial decision-taking that was designed for quite a different era . |
| 8 | She was glancing through a newssheet that she had looked through already a dozen times and that in any case told nothing particularly interesting . |
| 9 | This was news to me , although I knew Graham Fearnley , who was Jack Mason 's agent and looked after quite a big stable of European golfers . |
| 10 | If towing is permitted with only a wing-tip man , it is vital that the pilots all recognise that this is only safe if the ground is more or less level and the wind is very light . |
| 11 | If your army includes eleven to fifteen Trolls these may be organised into either a single unit , two as near as possible equally-sized units , or three as near a possible equally-sized units . |
| 12 | If your army includes eleven to fifteen bases these may be organised into either a single unit , two as near as possible equally-sized units , or three as near as possible equally-sized units . |
| 13 | This study has shown that when phonemes are selectively encoded as broad classes ( the mixed sets ) or entirely encoded as mid-classes , utterances are sometimes parsed into over a million word-strings . |
| 14 | The results are a bit like a small version of ‘ Trampled Underfoot ’ that has come from inside a Kinder egg . |
| 15 | AROUND 7000 PLANT-DERIVED MEDICINAL COMPOUNDS USED IN WESTERN MEDICINE COME FROM ONLY A SMALL NUMBER OF PLANT SPECIES … |
| 16 | Students of typography come from quite a wide range of backgrounds . |
| 17 | ‘ No , darling , but Mother and Lady Selvedge have come from quite a long way — miles , really — and those two young men talking to Ianthe are strangers , and I dare say Mr Stonebird will look in , ’ said Sophia comfortingly . |
| 18 | He told Mr Maclean : ‘ It is unacceptable that one quarter of the annual authorisation of particular radio nucleids should be discharged in just a 24-hour period . |
| 19 | As I was picked from about a hundred applicants I think I did quite well . |
| 20 | All instruments should be immersed in either a suitable disinfectant or minimum 5 per cent formaldehyde solution as soon as treatment has been completed . |
| 21 | Relationship matters , formerly considered in only a limited way as ‘ discipline ’ , Discussing the relationships of the librarian with the users is one way of discussing the role of the librarian , a way that keeps the reader in the forefront of the issue . |
| 22 | The discourse analyst , with his ‘ ordinary language ’ data , is committed to quite a different view of the rule-governed aspects of a language . |
| 23 | Alexandra suddenly found she was crying , great gulping sobs , tears splashing down on to the kitchen counter , an aching sense of something very precious which she had discarded without even a second glance . |
| 24 | Prior to the 1960s , Soviet economic relations with Latin America were highly sporadic , unstable and confined to only a few countries , principally Argentina and Uruguay . |
| 25 | A second limitation is that the duration of the effect with standard doses is confined to only a few minutes before the drug diffuses around the circle of Willis and into the opposite hemisphere . |
| 26 | The job depended upon careful organisation as it had to be come at only a few days ' notice . |
| 27 | … no inconsiderable sacrifice to put in the time and effort that this sort of work requires , particularly when , as I fear has been the case so far , it has to be pursued at rather a breakneck speed . |
| 28 | She had come through her sternest test , she had proven the singing budgie brigade was woefully wrong and that she was now ready to take her career into the even more rarefied atmosphere occupied by only a tiny handful of superstars . |
| 29 | The easiest and cheapest way of doing this was to excavate an 800 metres long by one metre square trench within a section of the ELR 's former double-track roadbed , now occupied by only a single track . |
| 30 | Knowledge of the law relating to control of water pollution , beyond a broad conception of the pollution offences , however , is regarded as unimportant and is claimed by only a small minority of field men , because the job is done ‘ by experience ’ and the application of rules-of-thumb — not ‘ by the book ’ . |