Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood samples were collected from all available family members and DNA extracted from the leucocytes using an Applied Biosystems Model 340 DNA Extractor . |
| 2 | Furthermore , in the case of the Netherlands , von Beyme ( 1980 ) sees the tendency towards decentralisation in the early 1970s as a reaction to the failure of attempts to promote a central incomes policy — which had been pursued more strongly than in other countries . |
| 3 | Many students find it useful to spend two or three minutes drawing a key words map for the questions they intend to answer . |
| 4 | This alliance of opposition frustrated all attempts to establish a professional police until Peel 's 1829 Metropolitan Police Act . |
| 5 | At the time of the alleged crime , the brothers lived a few yards apart in the Perthshire hamlet of Aberargie . |
| 6 | Certainly not as well as her books sold a few years ago . |
| 7 | Surf from giant waves crashing a few feet away splashed his face . |
| 8 | The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room . |
| 9 | In this it is related to the heads of the Two Nudes painted a few months earlier , but as opposed to them , it is more completely mask-like , and every area or section of it is clearly defined and forms a self-contained unit . |
| 10 | Two howitzer shells exploded a few paces from his horse , both blasts beginning small fires among the rye . |
| 11 | Suddenly , Snowdonia and the Lakes seemed a million miles away . |
| 12 | The 24-year-old Great Britain tourist , who was sidelined earlier this season for nine weeks with a troublesome hamstring injury , grabbed 12 points with a try and three goals to halt a gallant Rovers performance . |
| 13 | By 1800 the overseers , rate books indicate a few changes in the personnel living down Pig Street . |
| 14 | Since then it 's been illegal to bring dogs and cats into the country without the animals undergoing a six months quarantine period , where they can be monitored to make sure they are disease free . |
| 15 | Your only problem is choosing , and before you choose read these words to understand a few basics about the quality of Italian accommodation . |
| 16 | I think that would defeat the object in small places because you can hear these diesel cars coming a hundred miles away , in the later hours you can |
| 17 | His eyes went a few degrees cooler . |
| 18 | Until the eighteenth century settlement within the neighbouring parish of West Bromwich took the form of small groups of cottages clustered together in ‘ ends ’ around the heaths , where squatters had opportunities to graze a few animals and to build a little workshop . |
| 19 | But Italy 's sports journalists gave a unanimous thumbs down to the show put on by the British player they have dubbed ‘ Gazza di Gateshead ’ . |
| 20 | An increasing number of monasteries and convents offer an eight days ' Ignatian retreat where the focus is on personal Bible meditation . |
| 21 | A couple of new songs had a few ideas ‘ borrowed ’ from The Mission and New Model Army and could give a few clues as to which market Echo & The Bunnymen see themselves operating in during their climb back up the ladder to fame and fortune . |
| 22 | He is almost immobile though his eyes express a thousand shades of mood . |
| 23 | Attractions include a futuristic children 's room with holograms , a re-creation of the Venice Carnival and the Wooden Whaler — a giant sea monster . |
| 24 | The baths stood a hundred yards down the rue Foch , past the Mairie , the printing works and la maison du sauvage , where a hermit lived in a courtyard barricaded with oil drums and fastened with chains and umpteen locks . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , and I hear there are plans to open a licensed supporters ’ club just outside the ground . |
| 26 | Our bombs cost a million pounds each |
| 27 | Last year bad debts cost a million pounds a day . |
| 28 | On the F models , with the 9406 models using a new BiCMOS CPU , IBM claims performance gains of up to 60% — a 15% to 45% range is more realistic , with the F50 the star — at about the same price as the E models they replace . |
| 29 | ‘ Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ’ is a poem in Wordsworth 's loftiest philosophical manner , and a triumphant affirmation of God 's creative and restorative power at work in nature . |
| 30 | A brief excursion in July 1798 provided Wordsworth with an opportunity to summarize these new ideas in Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey , on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour , July 13th 1798 . |