Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 2 | It was not felt appropriate to raise this as a direct question to the authorities so an application was made to Namibia for an amateur radio licence for a Dxpedition to the Penguins . |
| 3 | She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before . |
| 4 | Staff at St Heliers in Carshalton say doors were left unlocked for up to ten minutes so an emergency patient could be admitted . |
| 5 | To combat the opposite extreme of jerry-building , we would make membership of the Housebuilders ' Registration Council 's register compulsory upon all contractors for local authority houses , with a view to rendering the building industry eventually an industry subject throughout to publicly-approved standards . |
| 6 | Lazio may well have been planning to allow Gazza only an hour 's play in any event as he tried to gain match fitness . |
| 7 | The profound changes in the economy and society which had swept the old feudal practices away were for Marx and Engels merely an expression of the profound changes which had first taken place in the mode of production . |
| 8 | Glowering at having been woken from a satisfying doze , the guard opened the eye-level flap to find the Doctor 's eyes only an inch or two from his own . |
| 9 | Great-Uncle Isaac at Dummah Hill , where Father was living and working , was kin to the brothers so an arrangement was made for him to take over the land . |
| 10 | With this in mind perhaps an emphasis needs to be placed on the more practical application of embalming and a greater value placed on course examinations and assessment . |
| 11 | Is Robben still an advocate of Howard Dumble amplifiers ? |
| 12 | Paykel ( 1979 ) calculated that the risk of a person developing depression increases sixfold in the six months following an exit event . |
| 13 | The remaining five had all been on suspension for about 12 months following an incident which resulted in police and internal disciplinary inquiries . |
| 14 | Or was the whole episode simply an occasion for our own informed superior merriment ? |
| 15 | It provided that in civil or commercial matters a judicial authority of a Contracting State might , in conformity with the provisions of its legislation , communicate by letter rogatory with the competent authority of another Contracting State in order to request that the latter should , within its jurisdiction , effect either an examination ( un acte d'instruction ) or other judicial acts ( actes judiciaires ) . |
| 16 | He had finished his piece over an hour ago and the night was wearing away towards dawn . |
| 17 | The Tridentine reforms were in practice essentially an Italian , even a Roman affair , except where they were enforced by the Jesuits , the ‘ soldiers of the Counter-Reformation ’ . |
| 18 | His breath clouded on her skin just an instant before his mouth found hers . |
| 19 | Blueprint for an effective audit committee Only an audit committee which is properly constituted and which has the board 's wholehearted backing will realise its full potential |
| 20 | If you 've got a slightly different attitude also an attitude . |
| 21 | It took fire and ambulance crews nearly an hour to cut Hilda McClanachan free from the wreckage of her Peugeot car . |
| 22 | It took fire crews almost an hour to rescue Robert Stanley who fell fifteen feet into the vat at Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire . |
| 23 | We 've got in the new format sixty of the new new format but what we have been able to do is take elements of the new re-fitted stores and put those for instance erm Pronto we 've managed to take those and re-fit them separately but the actual new concept stores sits at about sixty-odd stores and currently what we 're doing is to check the that we have had a a re-fits this year erm where we 've taken space for other sub-lets where put the new concept back to but as far as the go in majority of the chain now we have most of the major elements i.e an upholstery area bed area Pronto representation and indeed the re-fit that was discussed in the Chairman 's statement the kitchen and bedroom re-fit erm was applicable to all stores so all of the stores have got new kitchens and bedrooms in |
| 24 | He was in any case always an innovator . |
| 25 | Both existed in isolation of each other ; business merely an adjunct of the game , the means of administering a club . |
| 26 | One Olympic athlete broke a world record only an hour after intercourse and a British athlete ran a four-minute mile just ninety minutes after getting down to it . |
| 27 | Her uncertain temper made a trip to the Colony Room always an adventure . |
| 28 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |
| 29 | The Americans landed on the moon in 1969 ; five years later an agency of the British Government is launching an expedition to some metaphorical sun . |
| 30 | It takes your body about an hour , on average , to burn up one unit of alcohol , such as half a pint of beer . |