Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet from 10.15p.m. the line bites began and bream had been rolling steadily along the familiar route for almost an hour . |
| 2 | They also acknowledged that operators had initially delayed taking action for nearly an hour , in the belief that a gauge which showed an increase in radioactivity in the secondary system might be giving false readings . |
| 3 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 4 | But from 1983 opportunities in the Gulf were substantially reduced when the region experienced a severe economic downturn as a result of both an oil and a world-wide recession . |
| 5 | It may be that at a low level of a graduated test scheme teachers may wish to acknowledge a pupil 's recognition of only an equilateral or isosceles triangle as a triangle . |
| 6 | If you have any of these problems , you seriously need to consider extending your exercise capability by quite an amount . |
| 7 | A second , but also rare , situation in which an extended household could arise was when an elderly person was able to obtain the support of either an adult child or grandchild to continue living in his or her own home . |
| 8 | The subtle acquisition of a sense of the agency norms — ‘ the normal working standards ’ — is suggested in the following description of how an officer learned the rules about when to take ‘ a stat ’ : |
| 9 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 10 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |
| 11 | Orkney and Shetland are further from the mainland than the Western Isles , but the answer to the hon. Member 's specific question about when an announcement will be made is , shortly . |
| 12 | We have in a causal circumstance by itself a complete answer to the question of why an effect occurred . |
| 13 | The hardy perennial question of how an increase in the money stock is divided between a fall in velocity , an increase in output and an increase in prices gets short shrift in the new classical macroeconomics . |
| 14 | In particular , did the regime permanently change their patterning of sleep , as well as reducing their sleep requirement by over an hour ? |
| 15 | Turn it into an oiled bowl , cover with a polythene bag and leave in a warm place for about an hour or until the dough has doubled in size . |
| 16 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 17 | Ideally the theory encompasses the desire for both an integrity of self , and an integration with another . |
| 18 | Revocation and amendment of both an obligation and a right are treated in tandem in Article 37 . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , class remained the most important predictor of how an elector might vote . |
| 20 | Horrific to behold , with a matted crop of weeds for hair and feet turned backwards , the bunyip has a crocodile 's tail and the head and torso of either an emu , bandicoot or malevolent man . |
| 21 | Like the formal approach to organisations , such charts give us a picture of how an organisation works but it is only a partial picture and misses out on the crucial aspect of how people behave within organisations . |
| 22 | The English Tourist Board 's holding its own investigation into why an organisation charged with the apparently simple task of luring tourists to one of the most attractive parts of the country , came so unstuck . |
| 23 | SCO leaves the Initiative with only an OSF/1-based ODT development system for the R3000 ; the R4000 port is unfinished . |
| 24 | Using computer-controlled equipment , the project will study the use of CSPs in a cross-section of the Cambridge population from both an acoustic and an articulatory point of view . |
| 25 | Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour . |
| 26 | The sample is periodically agitated in the water for over an hour before being washed through 2 mm and 0·063 mm stainless steel meshes using wash bottles containing dispersant solution . |
| 27 | This held up the whole meeting and finally it was decided to postpone the event for over an hour , so we all left the track . |
| 28 | Er , very , very difficult er on each occasion after about an hour er we were approached by people , knocking on the windows of our cars , asking us what we were doing . |
| 29 | Both involved a delay of about an hour , and in the second case an officer was forced to go in a staff car to attend the patient . |
| 30 | We recently did a simple experiment which happens to illustrate how children 's knowledge of where an object is determines their behaviour . |