Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] an [noun sg] " 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 | Staff at St Heliers in Carshalton say doors were left unlocked for up to ten minutes so an emergency patient could be admitted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Paykel ( 1979 ) calculated that the risk of a person developing depression increases sixfold in the six months following an exit event . |
| 6 | The remaining five had all been on suspension for about 12 months following an incident which resulted in police and internal disciplinary inquiries . |
| 7 | It took fire and ambulance crews nearly an hour to cut Hilda McClanachan free from the wreckage of her Peugeot car . |
| 8 | It took fire crews almost an hour to rescue Robert Stanley who fell fifteen feet into the vat at Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire . |
| 9 | We 've got in the new format sixty of the new new format but what we have been able to do is take elements of the new re-fitted stores and put those for instance erm Pronto we 've managed to take those and re-fit them separately but the actual new concept stores sits at about sixty-odd stores and currently what we 're doing is to check the that we have had a a re-fits this year erm where we 've taken space for other sub-lets where put the new concept back to but as far as the go in majority of the chain now we have most of the major elements i.e an upholstery area bed area Pronto representation and indeed the re-fit that was discussed in the Chairman 's statement the kitchen and bedroom re-fit erm was applicable to all stores so all of the stores have got new kitchens and bedrooms in |
| 10 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |
| 11 | The Americans landed on the moon in 1969 ; five years later an agency of the British Government is launching an expedition to some metaphorical sun . |
| 12 | This time , he was in an infirmary for four days following an operation to have an abscess removed from his nether region . |
| 13 | Some thirty years ago an operation was introduced to control the spread of epilepsy from an affected cerebral hemisphere to the other , unaffected one . |
| 14 | A hundred years ago an architect took pride in designing every ghastly detail . |
| 15 | Even five years ago an attendance of less than 35,000 would have been thought surprising . |
| 16 | Some years ago an argument raged in one of the horse magazines , when some Expert declared that many Arabian horses had a parrot mouth ( a congenital deformity where the upper front teeth extend beyond the lower ) . |
| 17 | Two million years ago an ancestor or cousin , Australopithecus , made simple stone tools by putting a cutting edge to a pebble . |
| 18 | Less than one million years ago an eruption of this sort took place near Naples ; the ignimbrites erupted spread out over 5,000 square kilometres , and performed the almost incredible feat of rushing up and over mountain passes 600 metres high . |
| 19 | Some years ago an advertisement aroused great wrath among the touchier members of the library profession : " I used to be the mainstay of the public library until I tried … " ( out of deference to the protesters , the brand name of the vodka in question is here suppressed ) . |
| 20 | As I say I , a couple of years ago an authority did do that , it swapped . |
| 21 | ‘ For example , five hundred years ago an Arab produced a white , odourless powder , highly poisonous , from realgar , an ore found in lead mining . ’ |
| 22 | Hours later an investigation involving firemen and police was going on to see if the fire was arson . |
| 23 | A particularly crucial stage of status acquisition occurs when an individual enters social adulthood and is allowed to do things only an adult can , like marry and fight and so on . |
| 24 | If the staff can be encouraged to take lots of photographs of children doing interesting things then an album of recent photographs will favourably attract the attention of visitors . |
| 25 | It was a little confusing to find ourselves setting off for the summits of the Viluyos barely an hour after the decision to do so . |
| 26 | The pavements from North Hill and Verulamium have similar structures i.e. an arrangement of nine panels superimposed on a circular design comprising stylistically similar bands of wave-crest pattern , thorn pattern or ivy-leaf scroll . |
| 27 | Edward closed his eyes and remembered those golden summers now an eternity away . |
| 28 | In fact , they are not separate rings but one continuous spiral with its coils only an inch or.so apart . |
| 29 | It took firefighters almost an hour to free the passenger who was treated at the scene by paramedics . |
| 30 | If a man drinks only an alcohol made from paint or varnish or polish or acetone then he will dream of vodka . |