Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all these advanced cases only a pair finally incubate , brood , and feed the young . |
| 2 | It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order . |
| 3 | It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order . |
| 4 | They provide an intermediate level of reasons to which one appeals in normal cases where a need for a decision arises . |
| 5 | Nervously Meredith gazed at the open water ahead and then back at Venice , the minarets and bell-towers , the tall palaces just a distant unfocused blur in the morning mist . |
| 6 | Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday , relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure . |
| 7 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 9 | The retired management consultant , of Kingsmead Avenue , Worcester Park , Surrey , thanked the jury for its verdicts , reached after just 30 minutes following a three-day trial at Southwark Crown Court . |
| 10 | She should also swim for 30 minutes once a week and do my video Thighs , Tums & Bums 1-2 times a week . |
| 11 | They do n't wait for 30 minutes once a week . ’ |
| 12 | The structure of surveying education has progressed through a number of fundamental changes since the granting of a Royal Charter to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors over a hundred years ago . |
| 13 | Power is a relation between social groups not a possession to be worn like a garment or flaunted like an antiracist badge . |
| 14 | This endorsement should be added to 1 Star , 2 Star & 3 Star policies where a stamp collection is covered under Part B — Household Contents . |
| 15 | This endorsement should be added to 1 Star , 2 Star & 3 Star policies where a coin collection is covered under Part B — Household Contents . |
| 16 | In a few cases where a horn has been removed this can be proved by stating so or by an admission on the part of the defendant . |
| 17 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 18 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 19 | At about 7.45 ( ship time ) , they heard a major explosion and a few minutes later a searing hot blast of gas roared over St Pierre and the ships lying off shore , capsizing the steam ship Grappler , and rolling the Roraima so severely that she lost all her masts and smokestacks . |
| 20 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 21 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
| 22 | Puzzled , the girl went off , and a few minutes later a grey haired woman in black entered the cubicle . |
| 23 | A few minutes later a second girl ran into the office . |
| 24 | A few minutes later a police jeep screeched to a halt outside . |
| 25 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 26 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 27 | A few minutes earlier a JetRanger helicopter had lifted-off from Blackpool bound for Ronaldsway . |
| 28 | Opportunities for employment for graduates in linguistics are very similar to those for any graduate in Arts curricula , but there are some cases where a degree in linguistics is regarded as a relevant qualification , namely speech therapy and language teaching . |
| 29 | Assimilation of place is most clearly observable in some cases where a final consonant ( C f ) with alveolar place of articulation is followed by an initial consonant ( C i ) with a place of articulation that is not alveolar . |
| 30 | Yet the poor spend a much higher proportion of their income — in some cases even a larger absolute amount — on these goods than do the rich . |