Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse can move its lower jaw from side to side when eating , and the jaw muscles drag the lower teeth inward in a grinding motion . |
| 2 | They played only in the morning , to put themselves six or eight hours away from a place by dark . |
| 3 | The second , third , and fourth measurement ( on separate days ) started at 45 minutes , four hours , and eight hours respectively after a single subcutaneous injection of 100 µg octreotide ( Sandostatin , Sandoz AG , Basel , Switzerland ) . |
| 4 | On all courses we include a programme of extra-curricular activities either of a tourist nature or professionally orientated . |
| 5 | This project will investigate all 74 cases together with a series of long term detention case under the 1964 Act . |
| 6 | ‘ It goes yellow if you keep it for too long and I do n't see how anyone can be expected to use fifty tablecloths even in a lifetime — not mucky-looking yellow ones . |
| 7 | He is among at least 35,000 Scots now without a home . |
| 8 | However , the evolution of mankind has reached the point where it is better to leave religion behind , for it does comprise ‘ a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality , such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia , in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion ’ . |
| 9 | There is a host of community-related rural organisations in Scotland , many of which are purely social , or purely functional , some of which have broad ( non-party ) political aims , ( very few it seems make any attempt at all to combine social and political aspects even in a semi-structured way ) , but there has been little attempt to make learning connections between the assortment of community groups . |
| 10 | s three public houses there in a , a row , must be fairly unique that . |
| 11 | Forest clawed their way level 12 minutes later with a Clough penalty but failed to take all three points as opportunities were squandered . |
| 12 | Strangely enough Mr Fallon brought up exactly the same example just 12 hours later at a debate in Polam Hall . |
| 13 | The Special Advisory Board for the Army Medical Service had laid down as a basis for treatment ‘ a more or less continuous course of mercury by mouth for 1½ to 2 years ’ combined with mercurial ointment rubbed into the skin for 20 to 30 minutes daily over a six-week period . |
| 14 | Mr Hall looked flushed and glassy eyed when the event started 30 minutes late after a sumptuous dinner . |
| 15 | The money will help a number of UN-recommended projects worldwide including a soil erosion programme in Bolivia , a women 's tree planting project in Kenya and a clean water campaign in Cambodia . |
| 16 | She hurried off and returned a few minutes later with a tiny white gown . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , he agreed ; the apothecary rose and disappeared into the back room , emerging a few minutes later with a small leather bag . |
| 18 | Spanswick , 50 , returned a few minutes later with a mash hammer and delivered blows to Mr Curren 's hands as he tried to protect himself . |
| 19 | The second exploded a few minutes later in a wastebin in Cavendish Square , where the store 's 1,500 staff usually gather during safety drills . |
| 20 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
| 21 | Finally deciding it was not only pointless , but spineless as well to stand at the door waiting for a man who would n't come , she went up to bed , and surprisingly she fell asleep almost at once , only to be woken some hours later by a violent storm . |
| 22 | This statement was disowned some hours later by a Fatah Revolutionary Council spokesperson in Beirut , Walid Khalid . |
| 23 | I bought an Amstrad 5086 just 2 months ago as a total novice , not even familiar with a keyboard on the advice of the staff of my local Dixon 's store . |
| 24 | Daughter Rebecca , seven , was a few paces behind with a relative . |
| 25 | I am sure our guide had this well planned , because we were only a few steps away from a group of rockhopper penguins ! |
| 26 | WITH reference to the recent Echo letter about the £1 con-trick , I also had this same deed played on myself some months ago at a supermarket . |
| 27 | I saw some pictures recently of a famous movie star with a lift … frightening . |
| 28 | She wrote a few words quickly on a piece of paper , and at the last moment added at the bottom : |
| 29 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
| 30 | Richard Crossman , manager of the Border brewery , Berwick , joined Mann 's as a partner , being joined a few months later by a friend from Berwick , Thomas Paulin . |