Example sentences of "[art] [num] [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , of the 202 cases where a date of birth is known ( see Table 8 ) , only 4 were born in that year ( as compared with 18 born in 1895 ) . |
| 2 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 3 | The one case where a contested trial was covered by a range of newspapers indicated how the popular press focus on the potential fall of the near-famous and the introduction of gratuitous detail to titillate . |
| 4 | I du n no , on the one side down a bit so he was n't so noticeable and round the other side there 's ! |
| 5 | As a consequence the moral and legal boundaries of liberal economics , at first fluid , became more settled from the 1840 s when a discourse of reform and moral improvement framed economic and Benthamite languages with a moralised and rationalised social commitment . |
| 6 | They do so normally alongside another approach , the hope being that by putting the two ingredients together a synthesis will appear . |
| 7 | Church bells rang out over the sunlit streets of Bristol and across the two rivers where a fine evening haze spread , blurring the edges of the buildings , disguising flaws in paint and plaster , softening the impact of rags , heightening the charm of sprigged muslin and chintz . |
| 8 | But US confidence in dealing with Russia was bolstered soon afterwards by the use of the atomic bomb to defeat Japan , and in the two years following a breakdown in East-West relations occurred which , with the decline of Britain to secondary status , left Europe divided between American and Soviet spheres of influence . |
| 9 | In Fig 6.7 for example , the selection of the target ( sew a ) from the four possibilities so a , so I , sew a , sew I , must be based on a knowledge of the third word seam ( i . |
| 10 | A dozen yards away a burly young man , wearing a pale blue shirt , denim trousers and with his goggles adjusted , perched on his moped leant against the kerb . |
| 11 | To illustrate this , here 's a II/V sequence down a cycle of 4ths , dealing with one string set at a time . |
| 12 | Well , a thousand pounds not a lot , Karen , but er it all depends what the , what what you gon na be insured for ? |
| 13 | My Lords , will the er Minister say how much money has been spent on the so called cash protection for grant maintained schools and will she confirm that the one quarter of a million pounds almost a quarter of a million pounds being spent on advertising grant maintained schools is additional er to the scheme , to the first part of the question . |
| 14 | A hundred years ago a ‘ piss-maker ’ was a great drinker ; to ‘ piss one 's tallow ’ meant to sweat ; a ‘ vinegar-pisser ’ was a miser ; to ‘ piss out of a dozen holes ’ was to have syphilis ; and to ‘ piss when one ca n't whistle ’ was to be hanged . |
| 15 | There 's a hundred percent so a hundred and twenty it means it 's more than A 's height . |
| 16 | A hundred yards away a smokeball appeared : the flak was back . |
| 17 | A hundred yards ahead a long line of men trotted slowly across the scarred earth towards some shattered trees and broken walls . |
| 18 | Of every 200 16-year-olds just a couple plump for an engineering degree , and only one of those becomes an engineer . |