Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift . |
| 2 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 3 | For consumers who use 1,000 units or less a new tariff is introduced , with no standing charge . |
| 4 | In the first place it is argued that the real motive which underlay her ostentatious partisanship of enlightenment , especially in the 1760s , was not a concern for the well-being of her subjects or even a deep belief in ideas of enlightened government , but mere vanity . |
| 5 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 6 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 7 | In the course of their researches , Les and Pam discovered that the Ministry of Defence ( Air ) had no list of Far East survivors nor even a complete list of those captured by the Japanese . |
| 8 | ‘ This indulgence by journalists and sadly a small number of politicians has been transparent since the shadow cabinet elections in August . ’ |
| 9 | Liverpool 's docks were thronged with visitors , eager to see around warships and even a German submarine , which were opened to the public . |
| 10 | But it would also take 700 000 travellers out of their cars and over a million passengers would switch over from air travel . |
| 11 | In the treeless streets between high blank walls one saw no cars and only a few people . |
| 12 | First , it was his knee , then an achilles and finally a broken finger . |
| 13 | MAUREEN ( trying the B set which emits a series of siren-like whoops and then a muffled jazz band ) : It does n't seem particularly easy to get ANY station on the B. |
| 14 | And erm there was half a dozen shops and quite a few , spent most of me life there . |
| 15 | If he became excitable , I advised they gently apply the brake on the lead and calm Moby down with quiet words and perhaps a short ‘ sit ’ , before leading him off toward the dog or person again , allowing Moby to become used to their presence . |
| 16 | Among the casualties at Assandun in 1016 were several important East Anglians and doubtless a large number of lesser people . |
| 17 | They were particularly vulnerable during their first 12 months and about a third of them did not live to reach the age of 10 . |
| 18 | A Department of the Environment report on eleven such schemes found that there was often little or no consultation with tenants over the future of their homes and only a small proportion of the purchasers were local authority tenants or people on the council waiting list . |
| 19 | You 've got the situation where you 've got remote gears , and you 've got a situation where you , sorry , remote valves , and you 've got a situation when you 've got standard valves and also a small |
| 20 | However , as the evidence developed before him , it became clear that it was not necessary for the carers to sleep overnight and thus , plus they did not need bedrooms and therefore a four bedroomed bungalow with rooms for the plaintiff , her parents , the night sleeper and one for Clare or to be used as a spare room , would be sufficient . |
| 21 | They opened the gates by the steps and quite a few people are coming and going through them now . |
| 22 | It includes drawings for wall decorations , tapestries , silverware , stage designs and even a triumphal car . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've had motorists hitting live pheasants and other birds and animals but never a frozen turkey , ’ said an AA spokesman . |
| 24 | The invasion was briefly halted at Ancrum Moor near Jedburgh , where a heavy defeat was inflicted on the English by an army under the command of the sixth Earl of Angus , hitherto one of Henry 's supporters but now a bitter opponent because of the desecration of his family 's graves at Melrose abbey . |
| 25 | Analysed corpora contain not only the tags of each of the words but also a syntactic analysis of each extract . |
| 26 | When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words . |
| 27 | If you 're young you might think that cushions or even a thick rug will be fine for sitting on but not everybody would be happy — or able — to put up with this and certainly older people would prefer something more comfortable . |
| 28 | Whether you are a keen follower of horoscopes or just a casual glancer , the chances are you wo n't miss your stars in each issue , which is why I 'm delighted to welcome an extraordinarily talented new astrologer to Good Housekeeping . |
| 29 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 30 | Microscopic : The large buccal capsule bears on the margin a pair of cutting plates and internally a large dorsal cone . |