Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [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 | THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office . |
| 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 | I went there and found the beach exactly as described , with the clear and tranquil pond only a few yards behind the choppy sea . |
| 7 | Seven or eight months later a customer booked a holiday , relying on an old unamended copy of the brochure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yes I heard a very interesting conversation on the way down here in that programme Just a Minute |
| 10 | " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 11 | Well I wo n't lose much money on this Sierra about a hundred quid |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately . |
| 14 | When ( and only when ) five items have accumulated by being added at the end of the previous complete sentence , you reply with the type of shop — in this case obviously a chemist 's shop . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She should also swim for 30 minutes once a week and do my video Thighs , Tums & Bums 1-2 times a week . |
| 17 | They do n't wait for 30 minutes once a week . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | and erm if you listen to things on the radio they they have at the end of a sentence or at the end of some sentence quite a pause for a second before they go on |
| 20 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 21 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 22 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 25 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
| 26 | Puzzled , the girl went off , and a few minutes later a grey haired woman in black entered the cubicle . |
| 27 | A few minutes later a second girl ran into the office . |
| 28 | A few minutes later a police jeep screeched to a halt outside . |
| 29 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 30 | 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 . |