Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company is the largest builder of motorcaravans in Britain , producing a thousand vehicles a year at its Cotswold factory . |
| 2 | This consists essentially of a group of nurses specially trained in diabetic care , and exclusively devoted to that specialty providing a seven days a week , 24 hour per day service . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you told me you 'd be getting a hundred guineas a time if you were a television personality , John ? ’ said Bob . |
| 4 | For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 . |
| 5 | And let's not forget Western Samoa , Canada and Italy — with the last two really giving the All Blacks a fright — and Ireland , who were so near to bringing off a great quarter-final victory . |
| 6 | The shareholders had clearly manifested an intention to sell their shares and could not continue with the sale without giving the other shareholders a right to exercise their option under the articles . |
| 7 | For the cyclist however it was a ‘ challenge ’ in more ways than one , partly because the distance was much greater than is usual in such events , thus giving the motorised modes a head start on the outer-suburb uncongested sections , and partly because traffic was lighter than usual on that particular day . |
| 8 | It is no good giving the United Nations a role and wanting it to carry out these measures on our behalf but not giving it the means to do so . |
| 9 | Suddenly there was Anna doing a hundred things a day : the house wide open , parties and picnics and streams of presents . |
| 10 | Now the Meningitis Trust has a turnover approaching a million pounds a year , a full-time staff of 16 , and trials begin in Gloucestershire next year on additional vaccines . |
| 11 | b ) At the end of the Laxfordian events affecting the Lewisian rocks a suite of granite intrusions and accompanying pegmatite dykes and veins were emplaced c. 1750 m.y . |
| 12 | I 'm not making a million dollars a performance , but I do damn well , and I do n't think people should make a million dollars for a film . |
| 13 | Babs was telling the Lost Boys a story of how mothers always waited for their children to return : |
| 14 | Victory this afternoon in Parnell Park , Antrim 's home from home , would guarantee them a place in the lucrative knock-out stages , while offering the younger players a chance to display their considerable talents . |
| 15 | The Guatemalan army was launching a scorched earth policy , which laid waste to hundreds of Indian villages ; in El Salvador , the death squads were dumping a thousand bodies a month on the streets ; in Nicaragua , the Contra war was just beginning to put the Sandinista revolution into reverse . |