Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside the school stood the little school house , and beside that a row of small cottages . |
| 2 | Taking such a decision although costly in staff time , may over criticism that exhibition hours are designed to suit the staff rather that the public ! |
| 3 | Computers believed their silences were ‘ no ’ answers — right half the time . |
| 4 | If that market open up , it could require nothing less that a Sovpac . |
| 5 | Then a big rock began to move as well , and suddenly half the hillside was moving . |
| 6 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 7 | So it 's not his his fault but a lot of the training that we have to deliver is to do with procedures that he had n't dealt with whereas a lot of the procedures are things that I 'm familiar with there 's only some the job centre stuff |
| 8 | On one occasion I had some winter clothes brought in and it did take up literally half the visit , sorting all that out , and arguing about what I could and could n't have . |
| 9 | Boil them together half an hour , or till they become a thick jelly . |
| 10 | They emerged together half an hour later , just as Bill 's car pulled into the driveway . |
| 11 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 12 | His voice was n't its usual fulsome boom , and probably only carried down half a mile of corridor . |
| 13 | It does n't give you a hangover if you remember to get down half a pint of water before you go to sleep . |
| 14 | The hundred shares index closed down half a point at twenty-eight , twelve point six . |
| 15 | However , I prefer the bass Peter Harvey on Virgin , if only for the simply gorgeous noise he makes , sounding rather like a lyric tenor down half an octave . |
| 16 | So this a thing you wo n't like about it , is that if you 've got er , thirteen columns and ten rows , that means you have to create hundred and thirty range names , which you wo n't enjoy doing . |
| 17 | I think if we ever need to fill in half an hour we know what to do ! |
| 18 | Because of shouting by Opposition Members when I made my statement , I was not able to point out that the increase in the ratio of total Government expenditure to gross domestic product , both central and local , is only half a percentage point next year . |
| 19 | Houses have only half a storey too … |
| 20 | Within two years of starting my apprenticeship I was having to do roughly a man 's work , but my wages were only half a crown a week . |
| 21 | Caliban is only half a person at the best of times . |
| 22 | This was different , a need deep inside , a feeling of being only half a person without him . |
| 23 | Cheryl gazed for only half a minute . |
| 24 | At the start of the C2 first heat Reneiski/Zuravski of the USSR broke a paddle shaft but still managed to finish only half a minute after the Korean pair using just the blade at the stern to secure a repêchage place . |
| 25 | They make Utopia only half a dream ; |
| 26 | said only half a stone actually . |
| 27 | Moving at the pace of the infantry , they had not covered any great distance in the interim and were in fact only half a day 's march ahead when Ramsay reached Lockerbie in the Johnstone country . |
| 28 | Headmaster — We will have only half a day at school this morning . |
| 29 | In the case of ‘ minor events ’ which were arranged to cope with less complex proposals the programme was similar but scaled down to take only half a day . |
| 30 | The hours of London tailors were fixed by statute , but the journeymen could still complain that the masters called upon them for only half a day , leaving them in their public houses all morning . |