Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office . |
| 2 | When ( and only when ) five items have accumulated by being added at the end of the previous complete sentence , you reply with the type of shop — in this case obviously a chemist 's shop . |
| 3 | Colwyn Bay is also looking to the future with its brand-new Colwyn Centre , a superbly-designed covered shopping complex just a stone 's throw from the promenade and beach . |
| 4 | The very , the very strays are where the wire goes , if you look at the drawing there a bit er , it actually comes in and out you know , one , one of them is actually the same , it actually just comes in and loops in and goes out again and you may |
| 5 | His one chance came just before half-time when a defender 's shins blocked his shot . |
| 6 | The type of injury/illness should be considered in conjunction with the Policyholder 's occupation and an assessment made of the likely disability period e.g. a builder 's labourer with a broken leg will in most cases be off work longer than an office worker with the same injury . |
| 7 | But there was still a terrified child 's face on a body almost a woman 's . |
| 8 | It is an important matter because clearly if er if the matter er if the suspicion er turns out to have been reasonable but not to bear t further examination then an accountant er could find themselves in great difficulty er both with regard to pecuniary difficulty and also professional difficulty and it 's something the minister needs to look at . |
| 9 | It takes place where an employee 's work disappears , but he is retained and another employee is dismissed instead . |
| 10 | The first stage is the prenatal and perinatal period when a person 's genetic constitution is determined , birth trauma may occur , and the early mother-child bond established . |
| 11 | To approach a lake with delicacy and quietness , to blend in with the background and , once the bait is in the water only a rod 's length out , to sit there with bated breath , using every available piece of cover . |
| 12 | To pipe stars , hold the bag at right angles to the surface to be iced , with the nozzle just a hair 's breadth away . |
| 13 | When light which is polarised in a direction making an angle a with the optical axis falls on the crystal only a fraction unc of the beam is found to be transmitted . |
| 14 | She and Luc share a luxurious flat just a stone 's throw from the famous Hollywood sign — complete with swimming pool . |
| 15 | A medical orderly and a nurse patch up a competitor 's foot during a break in the Nijmegen Marches |
| 16 | He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm sure you do n't want to hear about Mark 's cousin getting done for selling crack mixed with concrete , or the Forest Of Dean whizzkid who tried to get the band 's mate to give them heroin so they 'd all become addicted so he could make a profit out of them , or Zac sticking his finger up a chicken 's arse , do you ? |
| 18 | Eating dinner , Trent watched Louis run his knife down a fish 's backbone , parting the flesh with the concentration and obsessively meticulous neatness of a surgeon . |
| 19 | In a society where a woman 's very livelihood depends on her affiliation to a man , her ability to determine her own life 's course is negligible . |
| 20 | She ran to the next comer with her head down , past the boarded-up house and the gate where a dog 's nose pushed under a loose board . |
| 21 | ‘ You should be more careful , ’ he said , coming up to her , his fingers reaching up to smooth the horse 's flank only a hand 's length from her knee . |
| 22 | This creates a problem in that there is no justification why a manager 's compensation package should be supplemented at the expense of the corporation or its shareholders . |
| 23 | But there is a big difference between the organization where an individual 's requirements are in the open , and those where , although evident , they are never tacitly acknowledged and therefore tend to dominate almost every decision and action . |
| 24 | The court stated obiter that there is no reason why a section 2(2) notice should not be issued to the applicant after he had been charged , but this statement was accompanied by the clear and crucial corollary that the person who had been charged would have first to be cautioned and questions could only be put for the paragraph 16.5 purposes . |
| 25 | In principle , then , there is no reason why a star 's collapse could not be reversed . |
| 26 | But his real reason was that he was blind ; he was crippled in a land where a man 's worth was judged mainly by his physical ability . |
| 27 | There is also some credit to be gained by radio , television or the press where an individual 's problem is solved and ( as it is normally represented ) the forces of darkness are vanquished . |
| 28 | This saves a large amount of energy so a Sainsbury 's supermarket today uses only 60% a similar store would have used ten years ago . |
| 29 | And thirdly the objective was no longer what Marx had acclaimed the objective of er a party following his leadership should be , no longer the objective which Lenin , in the Russian Revolution , claimed was the objective for the Russian Bolshevik Party not a workers ' revolution which would then spread and become international , worldwide . |
| 30 | Publishers have been reluctant to comment on this proposed scheme at present , but it is believed to be an agreement whereby a publisher 's rep would be given authority to put into the store any title in any quantity , for example 500 copies of a new title , and after 60 days would take back any copies the manager no longer wanted . |