Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 2 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 3 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 4 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 5 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 6 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 7 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 9 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 10 | Whilst ICL has duly announced that it is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix MPX for multi-processing , Open Desktop environment and the SCO communications suite on its Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers , the OfficePower-on-SCO validation work — see above — was actually carried out on an Apricot Computers Ltd box . |
| 11 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 12 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 13 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 14 | An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them . |
| 15 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 16 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 17 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 18 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
| 19 | In this way , the small proportion of white cats that can hear will become more common and the defect could , in theory , be wiped out after a few generations . |
| 20 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 21 | This is filtered off after a few days , and the company is left with sheets of a solid , somewhat resembling uncooked pastry , which is then flavoured and textured . |
| 22 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 23 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 24 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 25 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 26 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 27 | The journey is a long one , but it is hurried over in a few words . |
| 28 | Curl crazy style from Mac & Co with the hair pinned up in a small coils from the crown to the fringe |
| 29 | The sponsorship deal between the school and the film company was set up by a former Downs School pupil , who now manages the Phoenix Cinema . |
| 30 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |