Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 You 'll have to have it up a little bit or the same thing 'll happen at
2 It was just one more sign of his separateness from the people around who would buy a cow or a few more fields .
3 The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance .
4 It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way .
5 ‘ To a man without a job a few more houses on a field or a few foreign accents in the local pub seem a price worth paying for prosperity .
6 Yes er I , I , I , I think one 's either an owl or a some other bird which , wh wh which does n't at night but does by , by , by day you know .
7 Add a cinnamon stick or a few slices of fresh root ginger , then simmer for a few minutes — check it has a good flavour , then remove the spices and add 450g/1lb chopped rhubarb .
8 It does n't have to be from the same range , but the pieces should have something in common — such as being in the same or similar wood or style , having the same upholstery fabric or the same colour .
9 For this trick all you need is a small coin such as a fifty-pence piece or a half dollar .
10 Moreover , there is nothing in the 152-page report to satisfy the Opposition , industry or the few remaining Tory rebels that the Government has come out of the review with a national energy policy .
11 He may well have been a Zealot or a former Zealot — and may , in fact , be identical with Simon Zelotes .
12 If judicial divisions and controversial judgments are in any case inevitable , the pragmatist asks , why should the controversy not be about what really matters , about which decision will produce the least inefficient practice or the fewest occasions of injustice in the future ?
13 Actually if you 've a complete number of repeats , it does n't matter too much whether it a full repeat or a half repeat at the edges , as both can be mattress stitched to give a continuous unbroken pattern effect .
14 The entry level Calibra ( with eight-valve 2.0i engine ) receives a dressing up , with alloy wheels , leather steering wheel and a few other touches added .
15 There was initial improvement but now there is no response to the remedy and the same symptoms are still present .
16 ‘ We are selling historical information so it has to be valuable , ’ said Col Anatoly Privalov , vice-chairman of the Veterans Association and a former intelligence operative in Turkey and Algeria .
17 A leather wallet lay open with its contents exposed and itemised : business cards , driving licence , cheque book , banker 's card and a few stamps .
18 We bought one ( a mistake , we should have got two ) to supplement an old ladle-handle type of thing dug out from my past , and a hammer and a few pegs to be on the safe side .
19 Near one of the posts , a hammer and a few nails had been left behind .
20 He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision .
21 Pickups are P90s , with a three-way switch and the same basic control layout as the Sunburst 's .
22 Slobodan Milosevic , the Serbian President and a former leader of the Serbian communists , was elected president of the new party on July 17 , receiving 1,299 of the votes cast against 66 for the other candidate , the Socialist Alliance leader Radmila Andeljkova .
23 For example , the plaintiff asserts that he or she owns Blackacre and the defendant denies it ; or the plaintiff asserts that he or she is entitled to compensation from the defendant and the latter denies it .
24 She fumbled with her purse and a few seconds later she held a lighter shakily to the end of a cigarette and puffed greedily .
25 This is one of our main tasks as directed by the Indonesian government , which will hopefully give good result and no more tribals later on [ sic ] . "
26 An analysis of the contractual relationship produces the same result and the same consequences .
27 Rachel found herself following him into the social club and a few minutes later when they were both seated with their drinks in the same window-seat where they had sat before she said , ‘ So what 's your connection with Conway House ? ’
28 Under this chairmanship , the first Modern Languages and Marketing Studies undergraduates were admitted , the ACML or what is now the Modern Languages and Accounting Studies degree programme was launched , the Information Technology stream was introduced in the Modern Languages Degree programme and the latter was expanded to include Arabic as a main language .
29 With this in mind and a few sound nuts to bear it out , move left for Manzoku , onto a blanker patch — one of the more testing sections of the climb — then up and into true ‘ jug-hauling ’ territory and the obvious line .
30 Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated .
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