Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's biggest advantage is the speed in which even a novice can set up a new database and get data on to it . |
| 2 | Let it have your sole attention when I am abroad , but when I am at home , so jealous am I of your affections , I shall permit no rival in them even a son and heir . |
| 3 | This looking back over forty years had been sharpened by the filming of a TV play of mine only a few months previously . |
| 4 | The British Library Act state quite clearly that books may be disposed of if they are duplicates , though this raises the question of what exactly a duplicate is . |
| 5 | What had occurred was an unprecedented box-office slump in which eventually a third of America 's movie-houses were to close and giant film corporations were to plunge into debt . |
| 6 | Olga took a room for me just a mile north of Park Terrace — but in another world , the world of rooming houses . |
| 7 | A file in which only a number of selected attributes have indexes provided is known as partially inverted . |
| 8 | This will be so where he is reasonably satisfied that one of a group of two or more people , including yourself , must have committed an act of gross misconduct ( such as theft of money from a room to which only a very limited number of individuals had access ) , and yet he can not pinpoint the actual culprit , despite having examined all the evidence thoroughly . |
| 9 | By the end of 1989 , however , the relentless way in which Kylie 's team tracked the ‘ pirates ’ had turned what had been a tide into something nearer a trickle . |
| 10 | And why are certain parts of a great city like Birmingham planned on the gridiron pattern , and the rest of it just a jumbled , inchoate mess ? |
| 11 | It attempts to be a proof that all children can be educated ; yet it is also supposed to form a preparation for higher education to which only a few will aspire . |
| 12 | I said in my teapot there is a little , and he told you to use white tide and you put a little bit of tide in it once a week . |
| 13 | After the ups and downs of critical theory and fashion , the pedagogy of literary linguistics is an area into which only a few intrepid explorers have so far dared to venture , and the results here deserve to be widely and warmly welcomed . |
| 14 | Lady Selvedge was a tall , pale-faced woman , with a camel-like caste to her features-perhaps a Hapsburg lip if one took a more kindly view . |
| 15 | I should apply a hot antiphlogistine poultice just above the fetlock and alternate with a cold hose on it twice a day . " |
| 16 | There were plenty of wild places downstream where he could wade ashore , and then — well , if the Patrician really had sent out word about him then a change of clothing and a shave should take care of that . |
| 17 | St. Katherine 's Gardens — once the site of St. Katherine 's Church of which only a few stones now remain . |
| 18 | ‘ When she was just seventeen she fell in love with someone quite a bit older than she was . |
| 19 | They embraced at the last , but did not speak for fear of the clarity with which even a whisper might carry here . |
| 20 | Bought a Vax , they said no they 're a con do n't worry , he said with a little bit of luck you 'll get one that 'll be free , you 'll have to give a report on it once a month , then about after nine months they give it to you if they thought |
| 21 | Suppose the intensity is lowered to a level at which only a single photon at a time encounters the crystal . |
| 22 | The working-class boy who passes the eleven-plus is likely to come from an elementary or primary , school from which only a few pupils each year penetrate the grammar-school world . |
| 23 | It is perhaps through experimentation and experience at these lower levels in the government of education that we shall best find imaginative solutions to the problem of getting ‘ the curriculum gallon into the timetable pint pot ’ as well as moving towards a greater ( and yet flexible ) consensus on which ideally a national curriculum should rest . |
| 24 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |