Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The map shown in Figure 4.1 took only a few minutes to produce , and is easily amended and redrawn . |
| 2 | Figure 4.1 shows only a difference according to sex of speaker , but as this is quite consistent between generations , it has another quality : it is also a stable variable . |
| 3 | Finally , Sea Waybill Rule 5 sets forth a level of abstraction , for the sea waybill 's description of the goods , similar to that of a Hague-Visby bill . |
| 4 | Figure 1 shows schematically a noon-midnight cross-section of the Earth 's magnetosphere , showing the cusps ( C ) . |
| 5 | For the first sixty miles , State Highway 290 offered hardly a bend , hardly a hill : just dry pastures and an almost empty road . |
| 6 | Other MPs also go on the record on Page 2 to give TODAY an astonishing list of threats that caused some to buckle under . |
| 7 | Example 132 shows just a few melodies of contrasting types : |
| 8 | The BCR ticket number 7400 has quite a history . |
| 9 | SATURDAY 'S Charity Open at Prehen in aid of the Waterside Churches Trust Ltd attracted quite a large field of competitors . |
| 10 | The boys of Standard Seven did quite a clever act — there was a screen across the stage on which music had been painted — the notes were holes in the screen and the boys had their heads through these whilst in their mouths were small bazookas — small sound instruments . |
| 11 | Furthermore it might have been thought that the compact microfilm system would have found its way from outreach extensions into busy bureaux to replace the cumbersome paper files but , as will be seen in Chapter 5 , it is in fact likely to remain purely a portable tool . |
| 12 | The client concerned wanted both a finance director and a managing director ; the headhunter had found a good candidate with an accountancy background to be MD , before deciding that the same man would be better in the finance director position . |