Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Premiums have gone up an average 17 per cent this year . |
| 2 | Rovers stand to pick up an extra £25,000 if their former player makes the Great Britain side . |
| 3 | Sub-headings seem to take up an inordinate amount of space ; do we really need separate headings for ‘ What is Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to use Tincture of Benzoin ’ , ‘ How to carry Tincture of Benzoin ’ , and ‘ Where to buy Tincture of Benzoin ’ ? |
| 4 | However , there are differences between Type I and 2 diabetes : HDL levels are generally either normal or low in Type 2 diabetes ( Lopes-Virella et al , 1977 ; Kennedy et al , 1978 ; Reckless et al , 1978 ; Taylor et al , 1981 ; Rendel et al , 1982 ) : Studies on the subfractions have shown either an increase in the level of the HDL 3 subfraction ( Durrington , 1982 ) , or a reduction in HDL 2 . |
| 5 | But John King has stuck to his principles and Rovers have strung together an impressive home record . |
| 6 | Nature conservationists have put together an otter 's holt made from logs . |
| 7 | Conservationists have put together an otter 's holt , and one of the creatures has given the residence her own ’ paw-print ’ of approval |
| 8 | The past 30 years have witnessed both an escalation of the arms race between NATO and the Warsaw Pact and a proliferating membership of the nuclear weapons club . |
| 9 | And of course , ’ her eyes narrowed shrewdly , ‘ with women 's magazines these days warts have taken on an entirely new dimension ! |
| 10 | In the shadow of that history there is all the more to appreciate about the way progressive movements in our time have turned things around , and begun positively to identify the difference of the other : ‘ the emphasis on discontinuity , the celebration of difference and heterogeneity , and the assertion of plurality as opposed to reductive unities — these ideas have animated almost an entire generation of literary and cultural critics ’ ( Mohanty , ‘ Us and Them ’ , 56 — 7 ) . |
| 11 | Here the organisers have set up an international event where walkers , climbers and people everywhere can do something they enjoy doing and benefit others at the same time . |
| 12 | The Russian armed forces have set up an " environmental protection directorate " , on the initiative of the Environment Ministry . |
| 13 | West Midlands police have set up an incident room at the city 's Little Park Street police station where the mother is being interviewed . |
| 14 | No explanation has been offered for the deaths , although the local police have set up an enquiry . |
| 15 | Police have set up an incident room at Cowley . |
| 16 | He says ; The police have set up an incident room with four teams of officers working on the case . |
| 17 | Milton Keynes police have set up an incident room and they 're appealing for any witnesses . |
| 18 | Milton Keynes police have set up an incident room and they 're appealing for any witnesses . |
| 19 | Police have carried out an operation to catch poachers taking part in the illegal sport of hare-coursing . |
| 20 | I suspect it is no accident the politics of the times seems to parallel the growing toughness of the police image , or that the police have taken on an increasing resemblance to the black-clothed enemies of goodness who sprinkle the popular science fantasy films such as Star Wars , Superman , and the like . |
| 21 | Underground , hidden rivers have carved out an amazing system of caverns , like those of the famous Wookey Hole Caves . |
| 22 | Additional proposals include setting up an emergency fund to save buildings or sites for the nation and another for historic gardens ( two proposals which have met with approval ) , and cutting back on conservation grants , principally repair grants made to local authorities , amounting to £9.5 million annually , half of which has been on a pound-for-pound basis . |
| 23 | As an appetiser to the spectacle approaching , the rocks begin to take on an unusually geometric shape , until on turning the jagged headland of Part na Spanaigh , the astonishing site of 40,000 mostly hexagonal stone columns comes into view . |
| 24 | Because of John Major 's Passengers Charter , bosses have ruled out an across-the-board increase from January . |