Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You will need a good honours degree in any discipline or alternatively a degree , HND or equivalent combined with experience at management level . |
| 32 | In some cases , a company may need a dozen licences from a dozen universities for any particular genetically-engineered product . |
| 33 | And Dicky can take over as a footman — he may need a few lines changed here and there . ’ |
| 34 | Of course , you will need a few bits and bobs to get started , but Pat can provide a list . |
| 35 | I did need a few stitches , but frequent use of the bidet helped fast healing . |
| 36 | ‘ Even so , you may need a few stitches . |
| 37 | Mind you , you 'd need a few cushions |
| 38 | Although the pub decor might need a few alterations . |
| 39 | ‘ I may need a few shots before I find the mark , Khan . ’ |
| 40 | It is obviously every bit as important to respect the wild flowers in a foreign country as it is in one 's own , and not to pick large quantities of anything as you will only need a few pieces to create a floral souvenir of your trip . |
| 41 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 42 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 43 | And I do n't like provide a little bottles cos little |
| 44 | Some products and places provide a few exceptions to this pattern , as we shall discover in the next chapter , and there were considerable , if patchy and delayed , efforts towards ‘ re-industrialization ’ ( Chapter 10 ) , which created the estimated increase of manufacturing employment across all regions of the North from 1987 to 1989 , averaging 1.4 per cent , probably arrested by 1990 . |
| 45 | Center Parcs have done their market research — they know that their target market want the healthy Nineties lifestyle and duly provide a huge sports hall . |
| 46 | The MD100 Broadband Premises Network provide a structured premises infrastructure for all types of traffic . |
| 47 | ‘ I entered a few eisteddfods and competitions and did the exams but that was as far as I went . |
| 48 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 49 | Okay we changed a few words just to fit the words we could find , but yes , we , we had about a minute at the end , we read it through , and yes , it was fine . |
| 50 | But I think the political climate on that changed a few years ago , when there was the big influx of heroin onto the market … . |
| 51 | Joe 's father had worked for her father , and Joe himself had earned a few shillings helping out , when he was a scrawny boy with a runny nose . |
| 52 | On the way they 've run up Ben Nevis and Snowdonia … swum across Loch Lomond and Derwent Water and cycled the rest of the way … they 're hoping to raise thousands for charity and after 1200 miles have earned a few days off … |
| 53 | Using a scale a one centimetre representing a hundred metres So that 'll be nine centimetres . |
| 54 | That amount has just passed £1 billion per annum for the first time , representing a real terms increase of 2.5 per cent . |
| 55 | In 1897 she supported moves , viewed with dismay by the established women 's societies , to found a separate women 's university to examine students at Oxford , Cambridge , and Royal Holloway College , London . |
| 56 | The central core of the town was mostly occupied by those families which had lived in Dronfield before the momentous decision was taken in 1873 by the new company of Wilson Cammell to found a large steelworks specializing in the manufacture of rails made from Bessemer steel . |
| 57 | A NEW service which is A expected to encourage A more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |
| 58 | Persona non grata in Hollywood , he moved to New York , appearing in plays and television , and becoming a well-respected stills photographer ; he would return later to make Nicholson a star . |
| 59 | Our normal reality is like each of us living in a tiny , windowless cell in a house that contains a hundred thousand rooms and covers a thousand acres of land . |
| 60 | Insert your ticket , if you are fortunate enough to have one , into one of the newly-installed electronic barriers designed to reduce fraud ( handy tip for cheapskates : exit barriers are happy to accept a cheap children 's ticket regardless of age ) . |