Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not felt appropriate to raise this as a direct question to the authorities so an application was made to Namibia for an amateur radio licence for a Dxpedition to the Penguins . |
| 2 | In all these advanced cases only a pair finally incubate , brood , and feed the young . |
| 3 | For example , the early years of the decade saw numerous freight-only branches close because in most cases only a handful of wagonload traffic was being conveyed — uneconomically . |
| 4 | I might have to cut the cleaners ' hours down a bit , ’ says Chris . |
| 5 | It is suggested , therefore , that the husband 's solicitors should submit to the wife 's solicitors merely a copy of the last conveyance , together with a copy of any mortgage affecting the property and memoranda of any " sales-off " or other documents affecting the legal title . |
| 6 | This involves not only reflecting on why certain types of behaviours are defined as criminal in some historical periods and not others , but also why a particular criminal law comes to incorporate from relatively homogeneous behaviour patterns only a portion and exclude the remainder , even though each and every instance of this behaviour causes avoidable harm , injury , or deprivation . |
| 7 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 8 | Pike have very sharp teeth so a wire trace has to be used to stop pike biting through the nylon . |
| 9 | Staff at St Heliers in Carshalton say doors were left unlocked for up to ten minutes so an emergency patient could be admitted . |
| 10 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 11 | Crosby 's side were relegation candidates only a month ago and the Roker boss was everybody 's tip for the axe . |
| 12 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 13 | Glowering at having been woken from a satisfying doze , the guard opened the eye-level flap to find the Doctor 's eyes only an inch or two from his own . |
| 14 | Highly readable chapters on a variety of sportsmen by an American-born who strung three outstanding cricket books together a decade ago . |
| 15 | This is partly because it began trying to sell to government schools only a year ago , and partly because it would prefer not to give its machines away . |
| 16 | Great-Uncle Isaac at Dummah Hill , where Father was living and working , was kin to the brothers so an arrangement was made for him to take over the land . |
| 17 | Campbell 's survey of London trades in 1747 lists only a handful of female crafts all paid wages well below male trades . |
| 18 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |
| 19 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 20 | I said , widening my eyes just a touch . |
| 21 | Council officers told yesterday 's Darlington works and health committee they would continue to visit shops once a month collecting evidence with a view to prosecution . |
| 22 | But no one who thought so would treat the suggestion as an argument that the king can now , as the rules stand , move two steps once a game . |
| 23 | Instead of plays being acted by the city craftsmen once a year , we 've made a craft of play-acting . |
| 24 | One organisation , which faced a marked seasonal demand for its output and made substantial hirings once a year , reserved its temporary vacancies for school leavers . |
| 25 | Over the last few months hardly a day had gone by without his name being mentioned in the financial Press , the articles mainly commenting on the swift , ferocious manner in which he was carving his way through the City , ruthlessly gobbling up one company after another . |
| 26 | The experimental programme involved group sessions once a week with a maximum of 16 patients in a group . |
| 27 | Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ? |
| 28 | Do you think we perhaps put kids off an interest in science by our sort of insistence that they have to have a solid understanding of Newton 's laws and all sorts of principles , and we lose the magic too early ? |
| 29 | Nearly a quarter of men clean out their cars once a month whereas nearly three in four women do it less frequently . |
| 30 | While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore . |