Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know , although if I were a rich rock star I 'd probably be on the phone to Mr. Manson before you could say ‘ creative accounting ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Even if it is flu , with a little damage limitation we might just prevent the rest of the ship going down with it . ’ |
| 3 | We can consider reasonably clear cut examples of the use of local landmarks and of home stimuli , but when we come on to a possible map sense we shall move into one of the more unsettled areas of the science . |
| 4 | On a total responsibility package we will survey , measure up , agree the design and dimensions , and guarantee its fit . |
| 5 | For students who have already achieved a Standard Grade in Science at Grade 3 and who wish to progress in a specific science area it would be possible to construct a programme using an appropriate context with the modules : |
| 6 | As a quick reference guide to give you an indication of how many glasses of a lower alcohol product you can drink for every glass of a standard alcohol product below is a table which shows drinks which have the same alcohol content . |
| 7 | In a few days time we 'll be sitting him on top of a bonfire and standing around in the cold night while we light up the sky with loads of colour . |
| 8 | It 's safe to say that in a few years time they will be playing Las Vegas . ’ |
| 9 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 10 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 11 | It 's time we had ministers who will listen to Social Services and in a few months time we shall have them , a Labour Government . |
| 12 | well we ca n't go into the reasons for that but I said let's respect the reasons I said if that 's how you feel I said , you 're a man you you must make your own decisions I said probably in a few months time you 'll come |
| 13 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 14 | On the other hand , from a different vantage point they might have seen the body without having to go right to the edge . |
| 15 | There 's usually a old salmon coble they 'd pick up from down the coast somewhere . |
| 16 | Alternatively if the student was in rented accommodation on a 12 month lease it can be assumed that the student is not temporarily away from home . |
| 17 | If you really want a high quality door I would suggest that you select Brazilian mahogany . |
| 18 | IF you 're tied in to a high mortgage rate it might be worth your while doing the switch . |
| 19 | In a free enterprise economy it would be profitable only to supply a fraction of the amount to which the government is currently committed . |
| 20 | I 'm not quite sure yet cos we 're this chicken and egg which starts first I think we 're gon na look at a an an interim type report in year nine a quicker type report I ca n't remember what it 's , it 's written down in my other diary because what I do n't want to happen is to , people to have a onerous report at the end of year nine , cos they 're gon na have to do a report there now |
| 21 | As this is n't actually a direct film licence I wo n't dwell on it for too long ; just long enough to warn you that it 's a particularly poor platform product , with the only good feature being that the Amiga version was a lot worse . |
| 22 | When lifted and placed against a transparent plastic sheet they would show up the tiniest particle . |
| 23 | Now that it has a published price list it can start to take orders . |
| 24 | As an escaped prisoner in a German war camp you will move smoothly through a world of amazing detail and animation . |
| 25 | But if it was a light repair job it would be a day . |
| 26 | As a public relations executive you may be involved in work during industrial disputes , the moving or opening of a client factory , large scale redundancies , or other employment changes to your client 's company . |
| 27 | If someone touched him from behind on a crowded Saturday night he would push himself back onto the anonymous hand , just like a cat would , without turning round to see who it was . |
| 28 | On a crowded traffic way he 'd have been dead in under a minute but the barren landscape of this world offered little in the way of obstacles and the vehicle seemed able to right itself over the irregular peaks that occasionally reared unexpectedly out of the mists . |
| 29 | ‘ In the first two years of a Liberal Democrat government we would produce 600,000 jobs , 400,000 in the first year and 200,000 in the second . |
| 30 | Before a writ is issued in a personal injury action it must be endorsed with a standard form statement that the value of the action exceeds £50,000 ( see Practice Direction ( QBD ) ( Personal Injuries Action : Endorsement of Writ ) ( 1991 ) 21 June [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 642 ) . |