Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun pl] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 2 | The agency say they broke new ground by bringing together a drinks company and an existing client , the DoE , to sponsor a major anti-drinking and driving campaign . |
| 3 | UI will no longer be just a requirements body or a marketing arm for USL . |
| 4 | To it 's even worse I mean there , there does n't even seem to be a government in the there 's just a police force and an army and no one making political decisions , so it 's a peculiarity of recent political philosophy there seems to be no room left for the democratic process to do much apart from administer , so the democracy is given a very minor role . |
| 5 | It meanwhile was still being printed letterpress and seemed more an arts magazine than a product of any new movement , and put together by amateurs with leather arm-patches on their tweed jackets . |
| 6 | There are two main methods by which the purchaser can raise the cash : through a share issue namely a rights issue or a cash placing . |
| 7 | For those who prefer something a little more energetic , there 's also a darts board and a pool table . |
| 8 | There is also a games room and a solarium , available for guests to use for a small charge . |
| 9 | At one of the interviews where both an arts adviser and an administrator were present , differing views were expressed , but surprisingly , the ambiguity of this did not appear to be apparent to either interviewee . |
| 10 | Old Tintern Station , just off the A466 is now a visitors centre and museum , with the original station buildings restored and used as an excellent refreshment room , plus a fine display of artifacts from the railway scene . |
| 11 | In the deductive/empirical experiment , each child received either a questions task or a sentence completion task . |
| 12 | First , for many assets ( such as stock market indices ) there is either a futures market or a forward market , but not both , and so a direct comparison is not possible . |