Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | Despite adding digoxin 0.25 mg twice a day and diltiazem 120 mg three times a day , heart rate before discharge still exceeded 120 per min . |
2 | LISBON — The British aircraft carrier Ark Royal cut short a five-day goodwill visit here yesterday as controversy flared between US and Portuguese officials over the arrest of 121 American and British sailors during an alleged street-fighting rampage . |
3 | Christie 's hold similar auctions twice a year ; the first in January — also to mark Crufts — while their most recent , ‘ Man 's Best Friend ’ , was held in July . |
4 | It had made her feel like a dutiful grown-up daughter , visiting a hypochondriac distant relative once a week . |
5 | Given the option , would you prefer to spend 80 minutes hard labour twice a week at placed like Lancaster Park , Christchurch or lying on the beach at Famagusta ? |
6 | Is Community Economic Development merely a means of shifting the responsibilities for unemployment , deprivation etc. , onto the deprived themselves or is it an acceptance that government economic policy has failed so-called deprived areas and that something new is needed ? |
7 | Readers may be surprised to learn that I have never owned anything larger than a 48″ × 18″ × 18″ , though at one point many years ago a 72″ × 18″ ( angle iron , with a divided front like the windscreen in very old Morris Minors ) nearly came to live with me . |
8 | 15 exclusive plots each a minimum of 25,000 square metres accessible to the costas cosmopolitan pleasures yet a world apart . |
9 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election only a handful of very small parties that were genuinely political fielded candidates . |
10 | That does n't mean he 's going to draw it , he 's actually drawing on average this guy around a thousand , hundred pounds , one thousand two hundred pounds he 's been thousand pounds , but he 's actually drawing one thousand two . |
11 | At this mine two years ago a man was buried and later died after a massive roof fall in an extended cut section . |
12 | He was due to be released on conditional bail last night once a surety had been produced . |
13 | For many of us , working as a group to make the East End Open Studios even a success has been a rare chance to cooperate rather than compete with other artists . |
14 | Parents of young children with the lung disease cystic fibrosis , like 3 year old Poppy Roberts , have to give their children intensive physiotherapy twice a day to keep their lungs clear of congestion . |
15 | They say that when the decision was made to transfer the spinal unit at Harlow Wood to Nottingham 's Queens Medical Centre about a third of the hospital 's work was removed and no new contracts were negotiated to fill the gap . |
16 | and his wife , who have a grown-up son and daughter , are looking forward to celebrating their Ruby wedding anniversary this year just a month prior to 's retirement . |
17 | An inquest has revealed she was killed by a faulty , twenty year old machine just a day after she 'd bought it from a relative . |
18 | And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down . |
19 | Scatchard analysis ( Table II ) of binding data ( not shown ) show a 45% reduction 24 hours following a 70% hepatectomy . |
20 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |