Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining five had all been on suspension for about 12 months following an incident which resulted in police and internal disciplinary inquiries . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Open full-bodied reds about two hours in advance and lighter ones about an hour beforehand . |
| 7 | Paykel ( 1979 ) calculated that the risk of a person developing depression increases sixfold in the six months following an exit event . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So the very feature of our own legal practice that seemed to make conventionalism a good interpretation of legal practice — the deep , constant concern judges and lawyers show about the " correct " reading of statutes and precedents in hard cases actually an embarrassment to that conception . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Staff at St Heliers in Carshalton say doors were left unlocked for up to ten minutes so an emergency patient could be admitted . |
| 12 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even five years ago an attendance of less than 35,000 would have been thought surprising . |
| 15 | There has remained for several seasons now an imbalance in the bowling resources at Edgbaston . |
| 16 | Edward closed his eyes and remembered those golden summers now an eternity away . |
| 17 | Thirty minutes half an hour , nought point five |
| 18 | Some thirty years ago an operation was introduced to control the spread of epilepsy from an affected cerebral hemisphere to the other , unaffected one . |
| 19 | A hundred years ago an architect took pride in designing every ghastly detail . |
| 20 | ‘ For example , five hundred years ago an Arab produced a white , odourless powder , highly poisonous , from realgar , an ore found in lead mining . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Two million years ago an ancestor or cousin , Australopithecus , made simple stone tools by putting a cutting edge to a pebble . |
| 23 | This time , he was in an infirmary for four days following an operation to have an abscess removed from his nether region . |