Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE & A HALF MINUTES , Bishop 's Stortford-based snarling guitar four-piece , follow their recent support slots alongside Sultans Of Ping FC with dates at |
| 2 | Engineering seniors will be conveyed , by limousine , to a country mansion , where a major chemicals supplier has laid on fireworks and a champagne supper for favoured customers . |
| 3 | Where a chief police officer believed that a march would cause serious disorder which would not be amenable to control he could seek a ban through the local authority to the Home Secretary . |
| 4 | Where a firm deals with or for a customer it must take all reasonable steps to deal on the terms which are the best available for the customer in the circumstances . |
| 5 | track at a widening of the road , where a new police station was under construction . |
| 6 | where a simple gallows |
| 7 | We explored the intricate channels of the Sound of Harris ( in the days before it was buoyed ) , and poked our bows under the awful cliffs of Mingulay near Barra Head , where a thousand seabirds clamour and the sun is shut out at noon . |
| 8 | That I may be able to go down into the Saxon crypt of a cathedral , a tiny , exquisitely rude little chapel , where a thousand years ago my forefathers knelt in prayer , is a draught of pure oxygen . |
| 9 | When we analyse longer stretches of speech , it is necessary to mark the places where tone-unit boundaries occur ( that is , where one tone-unit ends and another begins , or where a tone-unit ends and is followed by a pause , or where a tone-unit begins following a pause ) . |
| 10 | Over the top of the pass there is a long descent through plantations and along a hillside into the fertile valley of Glen More , a quiet cultivated strath where a few farms keep their pastures in good heart , contrasting with the shaggy heights around . |
| 11 | There are the rare cases , as with the bronze and brass Etruscan statuettes described above , where a few moments spent performing a surface analysis can unequivocally solve a problem , which might have remained a stylistic conundrum for ever . |
| 12 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 13 | A hardy annual , it can be grown in any garden where a few patches here and there can be a delight . |
| 14 | Benson 's first workshop opened in 1880 at North End Road , Fulham , where a few men operated foot-powered lathes for turning metal . |
| 15 | As she grew older , she looked upon herself , tragically , defiantly , with all the hopelessness of fourteen years , as a plant trying to root itself upon the solid rock , without water , without earth , without shade : and then , when a little older yet , when conscious of some growth , she had to concede that she must have fallen happily upon some small dry sandy fissure , where a few grains of sand , a few drops of moisture , had been enough to support her trembling and tenacious life . |
| 16 | It is envisaged that the successful candidate will have a recent postgraduate qualification or a good honours degree . |
| 17 | If neither of the two previous options appeal , or your new company will not accept your old pension value into its own scheme , you can go independent and have the transfer value of your pension invested by a life company into a personal scheme — normally either a Section 32 buy-out or a protected rights personal pension . |
| 18 | If you are planning to switch , you will need to decide between a Section 32 buy-out or a protected rights personal pension . |
| 19 | In the Scottish universities , students normally enter at 17 rather than 18 , after taking five ‘ highers ’ subjects rather than three A levels , belong initially to a faculty rather than a department , and proceed to either a three-year ordinary or a four-year honours degree . |
| 20 | A three-year BA or a four-year honours MA in New Testament and Classics . |
| 21 | The Kristall is about a 30 minute walk from the lake , and a 45 minute stroll or a 5 minutes bus journey will bring you to Zell am See town centre . |
| 22 | So anyone who 's putting up a lot of their own money is untrustworthy and there should be limitation on how much people can stand , erm Mill actually goes into some figures at this point and rather quaintly says erm either fifty pounds or a hundred pounds ought to be adequate and I do n't know what that translates to now . |
| 23 | Well it 's just that , you know , a pound , or a hundred pounds today , is not the same as a hundred pounds in a year 's time , or two , two years ' time . |
| 24 | I got back from Colchester the day we were so she said , looked at it , is a ten pounds or a hundred pounds . |
| 25 | So if you kept these same ratios same fractions even if you got ten pound or a hundred pounds or ten pence it would still look like that . |
| 26 | Revolution is not made by proclamations , strikes can not be declared every twenty-four hours , and in order to struggle against the bourgeoisie it is not enough to have a weekly publication or a hundred militants . |
| 27 | or a hundred times , or kissed it |
| 28 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 29 | rebuild er every fifty or a hundred years or whatever ? |
| 30 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |