Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second-year units involve both a treatment of general theories and concepts , and discussions of more concrete and practical issues such as Women . |
| 2 | In mud wrestling both fighters wear only a jockstrap . |
| 3 | Most New Zealand rugs get quite a hammering ’ |
| 4 | Strapping lads cast away a problem |
| 5 | To take the barbel in the Hampshire Avon as an example , some Middle Avon fisheries contain a small population of big fish and others like the Severals have quite a number to go for . |
| 6 | However , too often , their attitudes reveal only a narrowness of mind and a sad lack of common humanity , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Will all members with unpaid subscriptions please forward a remittance in the very near future . |
| 8 | In the broadest terms , it has been concerned with one aspect of youth history : how and why , and with what consequences for age relations , middle-class reformers put together a number of images of working-class adolescents . |
| 9 | As children grow up , and the pedal bike becomes the motorbike , they have areas to test their skills , where tumbles cause only a bruise or a tear . |
| 10 | Texts put forth a gospel of real manhood and real womanhood . |
| 11 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 12 | Now the Singers contribute once a week , alternating with other musicians , and there is a much wider selection of music . |
| 13 | Enthusiasts have just a week to book a ride back in time . |
| 14 | Note that the target struck by the cauldron suffers a strength 5 hit , while remaining targets suffer only a strength 3 hit . |
| 15 | I mean that if it 's over like two years make quite a difference though . |
| 16 | This extraordinary increase is due in part to the fact that the dogs breed twice a year and it seems that all females give birth whereas in wolf society only dominant females do so . |
| 17 | However he did say that in the years ending June 1983 and June 1984 the total number of High Court judges so involved was 28.4 As no details were given , this figure is almost meaningless but if the categories counted were similar to those for the period of 1953–73 those two later years show almost a doubling , on average . |
| 18 | ‘ We are conscious , ’ John Page concluded , ‘ that our costs put quite a burden on some of you , and I believe we are going to have to look at that aspect of the ‘ level playing field ’ because we know you think this unfair as not all countries are in the same position . |
| 19 | Aides know only a TV or radio employee could have taken the tape . |
| 20 | In fact , in this company division , cost-accounting had in recent years become pre-eminently a pre-investment activity , but this obviously was a function of the nature of the business . |
| 21 | These proposals present both a challenge and an opportunity to radicals . |
| 22 | The settlement of the barbarians was plainly varied , and our sources provide only a hint of its complexities . |
| 23 | So , although they start later , in fact ma mature sexually later , erm , than hinds do , just as human beings do , where of course males mature sexually a couple of years after females , their reproductive success can be vastly greater than any female . |
| 24 | Thus when Henry II , as overlord , claimed the wardship of the Deols heiress , her relatives put forward a counterclaim : the wardship more properly belonged to them , they said , as her kinsmen . |
| 25 | ‘ But unfortunately these things happen quite a lot in this business . ’ |
| 26 | Hence managers choose carefully a position for their factory , so that transport costs are kept low . |
| 27 | Children of welfare-dependent single-parent families have neither a monopoly on juvenile crime nor a disdain for conventional values . |
| 28 | All of those things need quite a degree of training . |
| 29 | FIRMS have only a week left to apply for an enterprise initiative which pays half their consultancy fees . |
| 30 | Such techniques provide both a role-playing and control procedure which can be used to reduce the uncertainty of the proposed design . |