Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Referring to Figure 5.7 again , a part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node and box stored at second and subsequent occurrences . |
| 2 | A part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node shown at subsequent entries . |
| 3 | shows a faith that persists even when he is told to be quiet by the crowd . |
| 4 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 5 | But the smile lasted less than a heartbeat and vanished entirely when she saw that fitzAlan continued to watch the small party until it disappeared from view . |
| 6 | In 1958 , 40 million cubic metres of rock fell into Lituya Bay on the coast of Alaska , producing a great surge which destroyed a forest and reached more than 500 m up the mountainside On the far side of the bay . |
| 7 | Tony assured me that there was a supermarket in the village , which seemed unlikely in a place that had less than ten houses , but turned out to be almost true — — the garage sold bits and pieces . |
| 8 | They can walk into a room and see instantly if something is out of place or if a guest has a need . ’ |
| 9 | The miracle portrays Jesus as being unwilling to help a Gentile but does so because of the great faith shown by the woman . |
| 10 | Among consumers of both products the risk of these cancers was increased more than 35-fold among those who smoked two or more packs of cigarettes a day and took more than four alcoholic drinks a day . |
| 11 | Andrew Telford , owner of Regal Diving , said : ‘ Perhaps we could have a compromise and dive only where there are no human remains . |
| 12 | Joseph looked up with a start and nodded vigorously although he had n't heard a word his father had said . |
| 13 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany . |
| 14 | Scotrail can not be so terminally stupid that they are unaware of the numbers of people wanting to use the train in the summer , and therefore a train that accommodates more than four people at a time may well be required . |
| 15 | Here is a new dimension of the paranormal , the sound of a diesel motor coming from a train that appeared long after it had been scrapped . |
| 16 | He stifled a yawn and smiled apologetically as he met her hard , straight gaze . |
| 17 | Seeing that our law refuses to contemplate the possibility of any person either being without a domicile or having more than one domicile , the rules on this subject are not only intricate but highly artificial . |
| 18 | The only exception in my case , is that I 've used a firm that does more than thirty-five thousand pounds worth of work a year . |
| 19 | It is simply impossible to remember umpteen different thoughts in a swing that lasts less than two seconds . |
| 20 | So she 's given you those to practise not just a C and then a K but show both as one making sort of one sound like in back and lock |
| 21 | Cordia was a principality that vanished more than two hundred years ago . ’ |
| 22 | In Lean 's film The Sound Barrier ( 1952 ) , the central character , an engineer , is portrayed as a more deeply ambivalent figure , driven by his ambition to build a plane that goes faster than the speed of sound , seemingly prepared to accept the loss of his son and a pilot in pursuit of his dream , but actually torn by a deep sense of what he has lost . |
| 23 | So begins the next round in a saga that began more than 20 years ago . |
| 24 | Place the flageolet beans , ham and cherry tomatoes in a bowl and toss together until well mixed . |
| 25 | Detailed calculations show that the emitted particles have a thermal spectrum corresponding to a temperature that increases rapidly as the mass of the black hole decreases . |
| 26 | Now , we saw Queen Margaret mourning her husband ; we have Selkirk 's riddle about a Lion that cried even though it died ; Oswald the moss trooper 's tale about more than one royal corpse being discovered at Flodden … ’ |
| 27 | Incidentally it should be remembered that the first picture ( Fig. 22.3 ) is actually the second stage of the sequence , because this pattern is itself the consequence of an instability that occurs only if the Rayleigh number is high enough ( Sections 22.2 , 22.3 ) ; however the first stage could only be represented by a picture which was ‘ a perfect and absolute blank ’ . |
| 28 | An achievement that means more as the years go by . |
| 29 | A speaker may decide to present an element as given even when there is no sufficient reason to assume that it is in the addressee 's consciousness . |