Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every three months they draw up a list of new jobs . |
| 2 | Of the three elements which make up an opera — the music , the words and the drama — the third arises from the first two realised by the performance of the singing actors , with the collaboration of the musicians and within the ambience of the set and the costumes . |
| 3 | In 1978 , he told five youths who tied up a 14-year-old boy as a target for their catapults : ‘ What is the best sentence for you really would be to have you tied to a tree and everybody throw stones at you . |
| 4 | After about eight issues he picked up a copy and noticed that Bowart-using the same technique he had used to appoint Miles London correspondent — had appointed him , and William Randolph Hearst as editors . |
| 5 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
| 6 | Two of many examples of nomic correlates , although the matter is in several ways complex , are provided by the interdependent variation of the pressure of a gas and its volume and temperature , according to the Boyle-Charles law for ideal gases , and the orbits of the two stars which make up a double star , which are held close together by mutual gravitational attraction . |
| 7 | Of the protocol violators , those seven patients who missed out a cystoscopy and then had recurrences , six have only had occasional recurrences during the remainder of their follow up , and one required chemotherapy four years from diagnosis , when he developed multiple superficial recurrences . |